Vera Lysklætt
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Vera Lysklætt is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
Venstre (Norway)
The Liberal Party is a centrist liberal political party in Norway. The party is the oldest in the country, and has enacted reforms such as parliamentarism, freedom of religion, universal suffrage and free education. Since 2010, the leader of the party is Trine Skei Grande...

 (V). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark
Finnmark
or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

 in 2005. She came in on a leveling seat
Leveling seat
Leveling seats are a mechanism employed in Norwegian elections to the national legislature, the Storting, and in Swedish elections to national and regional assemblies, to ensure proportional representation both by county and political party...

, in spite of low local support in the county with only 818 votes, or 2 percent.

She was a member of Karasjok
Karasjok
Kárášjohka or is a village and municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Karasjok.-Name:Karasjok is a Norwegianized form of the Sámi name Kárášjohka...

 municipal council from 1999 to 2003.

Parliamentary Committee duties

  • 2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration
    Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration
    The Standing Committee onLocal Government and Public Administration is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating to local government, regional and rural policy, immigration policy, housing policy, building and construction, national minorities, Sami...

    .

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