Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet
Cabinet ofNorway
Date formed	17 October 2005
Date dissolved	16 October 2013
People and organisations
King	Harald V of Norway
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Member parties	Labour Party  Socialist Left Party  Centre Party
Status in legislature	Red–Green Coalition (majority)
History
Elections	2005,2009
Legislature terms	2005–2009 2009–2013
Incoming formation	2005 parliamentary election
Outgoing formation	2013 parliamentary election
Predecessor	Bondevik's Second Cabinet
Successor	Solberg's Cabinet

Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was theGovernment of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was acoalition between theLabour Party, theSocialist Left Party and theCentre Party, known as theRed–Green Coalition. On 9 September 2013, the coalition was defeated in the2013 election.

The cabinet had ten members from the Labour Party, five from the Socialist Left Party and four from the Centre Party. It replacedBondevik's Second Cabinet following the2005 parliamentary election where the three parties won a majority inparliament. In the2009 parliamentary election, the three parties retained their majority, and the coalition continued.

The cabinet is the first time the Socialist Left Party has sat in government, and the second time, after the post-war interimGerhardsen's First Cabinet, where the Labour Party sits in a coalition government. It was the first cabinet to have had a majority of women, the first to have had a member with a non-Western heritage and the first to have had a member who was a Muslim.

There have been several changes since Prime MinisterJens Stoltenberg presented his first team in October 2005:

• On 29 September 2006,Odd Eriksen resigned as Minister of Trade and Industry, and was succeeded byDag Terje Andersen.
• On 21 September 2007,Odd Roger Enoksen resigned as Minister of Petroleum and Energy and was replaced byÅslaug Haga, who was succeeded as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development byMagnhild Meltveit Kleppa, thus making the first government in the history of Norway with more women than men.
• On 18 October 2007,Helen Bjørnøy resigned as Minister of Environment andØystein Djupedal as Minister of Education and Science. Fellow Socialist Left Party ministerErik Solheim became joint Minister of International Development and Environment (though the two roles were not merged, International Development is part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), while Djupedal was succeeded byBård Vegard Solhjell as Minister of Education andTora Aasland as Minister of Science.Karita Bekkemellem resigned as Minister of Children and Equality and was replaced by Norway's first minister with a minority background,Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen.
• On 15 February 2008, Ramin-Osmundsen was forced to resign following the strong criticism she faced after withholding information and lying to the Prime Minister on a possible conflict of interest in appointing a new children'sombudsman.^[1]Anniken Huitfeldt was appointed new minister on 29 February 2008.^[2]
• On 20 June 2008,Åslaug Haga resigned as Minister of Petroleum and Energy citing health problems following press revelations about a building violations scandal.^[3] The resignation led to a major reshuffle. Haga was replaced as Minister of Petroleum and Energy byTerje Riis-Johansen, who was himself replaced as Minister of Agriculture and Food by member of parliament and fellow Centre Party politicianLars Peder Brekk. Among the Labour Party ministers,Dag Terje Andersen moved to the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion and was replaced as Minister of Industry and Trade bySylvia Brustad. Her former Ministry of Health and Care Services was taken byBjarne Håkon Hanssen.^[4][5][6]
• On 2 October 2009,Dag Terje Andersen resigned as Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion to becomePresident of the Storting andHelga Pedersen as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs to become parliamentary leader for the Labour party in the Storting.^[7]
• Following there-election of the Government, the Prime Minister on 20 October 2009 presented a new cabinet with several changes.^[8] The election strengthened the Labour party, while weakening the Socialist Left party, and the latter thus handed over one ministry to the former. They also gave up the Ministry of Finance for the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social inclusion. Another change in the composition of the government was the promotion ofKarl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen from state secretary to Minister at the Office of the Prime Minister, thus adding to the number of ministers. In the Labour party, Minister of Health and Care ServicesBjarne Håkon Hanssen and Minister of Trade and IndustrySylvia Brustad, both resigned from politics. The health portfolio was given toAnne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, who was succeeded as Minister of Defence byGrete Faremo. The Trade and Industry portfolio was given toTrond Giske, who was succeeded as Minister of Culture byAnniken Huitfeldt (while the church portfolio was moved to the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform). Her former Ministry of Children of Equality was handed to the new Socialist Left party chairmanAudun Lysbakken, who also took the portfolio of social inclusion. The former Socialist Left party chairmanKristin Halvorsen left the Ministry of Finance to become new Minister of Education, while the incumbent of that ministry,Bård Vegar Solhjell, resigned from the government to become parliamentary leader for the Socialist Left party in the Storting.Sigbjørn Johnsen became new Minister of Finance for the Labour party. The Ministry of Government Administration and Reform received the church portfolio, and Labour party MPRigmor Aasrud was appointed minister. The outgoing Socialist Left party minister,Heidi Grande Røys, resigned from politics. To fill the vacancies left by the post-election (2 October) resignations ofAndersen as Minister of Labour, andPedersen as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, new Labour party ministers wereLisbeth Berg-Hansen andHanne Bjurstrøm. The Centre party kept their ministers, but there was a switch of ministries. Party leaderLiv Signe Navarsete became Minister for Local Government and Regional Development, whileMagnhild Meltveit Kleppa took Navarsete's former Ministry of Transport and Communications.
• On 4 March 2011,Terje Riis-Johansen resigned as Minister of Petroleum and Energy and was replaced byOla Borten Moe.
• On 11 November 2011,Knut Storberget resigned as Minister of Justice, stating he wanted to spend more time with his children after troubling months following the2011 Norway attacks. He was replaced byGrete Faremo, who was succeeded as Minister of Defence byEspen Barth Eide.^[9]
• On 5 March 2012,Audun Lysbakken left the government as Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion and was replaced byKristin Halvorsen until further notice^[10]
• On 23 March 2012,Erik Solheim andTora Aasland retired. Both education portfolios were put under the responsibility of Halvorsen.Inga Marte Thorkildsen was appointed Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion;Heikki Holmås was appointed Minister of International Development; and Solhjell was appointed Minister of the Environment.
• On 18 June 2012,Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa andLars Peder Brekk resigned. Kleppa was succeeded as Minister of Transportation and Communication byMarit Arnstad, while Brekk was succeeded as Minister of Agriculture and Food byTrygve Slagsvold Vedum.^[11]
• On 21 September 2012,Hanne Bjurstrøm resigned, and was replaced as Minister of Labour byAnniken Huitfeldt. Her former Ministry of Culture was handed toHadia Tajik, who thus became Norway's first Muslim member of government. At the same timeJonas Gahr Støre was appointed Minister of Health and Care Services, replacingAnne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen who was re-appointed as Minister of Defence (the position she held between 2005 and 2009). The Minister of Defence,Espen Barth Eide, succeeded Gahr Støre as Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[12]

From 1 January 2010 there was a change in the Ministry structure, following the September 2009 election and re-formation of the government. The Social Inclusion division of the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion was split between the Ministry of Children and Equality and the Ministry of Justice and Police. The Church Affairs division of the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs was moved to the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform.

From 1 January 2012 the Ministry of Justice and Police was renamed as the Ministry of Justice and Emergency Planning^[10][13]

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