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- Lars_Sponheim abstract "Lars Sponheim (born 23 May 1957) is a Norwegian politician. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2010. He was a member of the Storting from 1993 to 2009, and a government minister from 1997 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. He is the current County Governor of Hordaland, serving since March 2010.Sponheim was born in Halden, Østfold. In 1981 he achieved a degree in agricultural science at the Agricultural University of Norway. From 1988 to 1991, he was mayor of his home municipality, Ulvik in Hordaland. He is also a farmer, and with his family he runs the ancestral farm, Sponheim, in Ulvik. He was elected to parliament as the Liberal Party's only representative in the 1993 election. During his campaign he pledged that he would walk from his home in Ulvik to Oslo if elected, which he did. During his first term in parliament he tried to carve a place in Norwegian politics for the Liberal Party, who had been out of parliament since the 1985 election, and to make the party a potential partner in a new non-socialist government. In this he succeeded in the 1997 elections when the Liberal Party gained 5 new seats in parliament and became junior partner in the centrist first cabinet of Kjell Magne Bondevik. Sponheim became party leader in 1996, succeeding Odd Einar Dørum, before stepping down in 2010. He is the longest serving leader in the party's history.In the first cabinet of Bondevik, from October 1997 to March 2000, Sponheim was Minister of Trade and Industry. His main project in this position was to reduce the number of laws and regulations restricting business, especially small business. In the second Bondevik cabinet, from October 2001 to October 2005, he was Minister of Agriculture and Food. He used this position to promote Norwegian food in general and local agricultural specialties in particular, and to implement reforms aimed at making Norwegian agriculture more competitive. He also gained a lot of publicity for criticizing Norwegians traveling to Sweden in order to buy cheaper food, calling it \"Harry\".Sponheim was elected to a fourth consecutive term in the Storting in the 2005 election.In the 2009 election, the Liberal Party suffered a major defeat and lost eight out of their ten seats in parliament, including Sponheim's seat in Hordaland. Following this defeat, Sponheim announced on the election night that he would resign as party leader when the Liberal Party convenes in the spring 2010. On 19 March 2010, it was announced that Sponheim would become the new County Governor of Hordaland, replacing the retiring Svein Alsaker. As county governor, Sponheim came into a dispute with the Bergen city government when he agreed with the opposition that the 2011 budget for Bergen illegally considered extraordinary dividend from BKK as regular income, and not as income which must be used for investments.".
- Lars_Sponheim almaMater Norwegian_University_of_Life_Sciences.
- Lars_Sponheim birthDate "1957-05-23".
- Lars_Sponheim birthPlace Halden.
- Lars_Sponheim birthPlace Norway.
- Lars_Sponheim nationality Norway.
- Lars_Sponheim office "Governor of Hordaland".
- Lars_Sponheim office "Member of ParliamentforHordaland".
- Lars_Sponheim office "Minister of Agriculture and Food".
- Lars_Sponheim office "Minister of Trade and Industry".
- Lars_Sponheim party Liberal_Party_(Norway).
- Lars_Sponheim predecessor Bjarne_Håkon_Hanssen.
- Lars_Sponheim predecessor Grete_Knudsen.
- Lars_Sponheim predecessor Svein_Alsaker.
- Lars_Sponheim residence Bergen.
- Lars_Sponheim successor Odd_Eriksen.
- Lars_Sponheim successor Terje_Riis-Johansen.
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- Lars_Sponheim termPeriod Lars_Sponheim__2.
- Lars_Sponheim termPeriod Lars_Sponheim__3.
- Lars_Sponheim termPeriod Lars_Sponheim__4.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Agricultural_science.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Bergenshalvøens_Kommunale_Kraftselskap.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Bjarne_Håkon_Hanssen.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Bondeviks_First_Cabinet.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Category:County_Governors_of_Norway.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mayors_of_places_in_Hordaland.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink List_of_County_Governors_of_Hordaland.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink List_of_members_of_the_Parliament_of_Norway,_1993–97.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Norway.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Norwegian_parliamentary_election,_1993.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Odd_Einar_Dørum.
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- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Oslo.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Storting.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Svein_Alsaker.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Sweden.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Terje_Riis-Johansen.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Trine_Skei_Grande.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Ulvik.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLink Østfold.
- Lars_Sponheim wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lars Sponheim".
- Lars_Sponheim after Odd_Eriksen.
- Lars_Sponheim after Terje_Riis-Johansen.
- Lars_Sponheim after Trine_Skei_Grande.
- Lars_Sponheim almaMater Norwegian_University_of_Life_Sciences.
- Lars_Sponheim before Bjarne_Håkon_Hanssen.
- Lars_Sponheim before Grete_Knudsen.
- Lars_Sponheim before Odd_Einar_Dørum.
- Lars_Sponheim birthDate "1957-05-23".
- Lars_Sponheim birthPlace Halden.
- Lars_Sponheim birthPlace Norway.
- Lars_Sponheim caption "Lars Sponheim, 2004".
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- Lars_Sponheim name "Lars Sponheim".
- Lars_Sponheim nationality Norway.
- Lars_Sponheim office List_of_County_Governors_of_Hordaland.
- Lars_Sponheim office Ministry_of_Agriculture_and_Food_(Norway).
- Lars_Sponheim office Ministry_of_Trade_and_Industry_(Norway).
- Lars_Sponheim office "Member of Parliament for Hordaland".
- Lars_Sponheim party Liberal_Party_(Norway).
- Lars_Sponheim predecessor Bjarne_Håkon_Hanssen.
- Lars_Sponheim predecessor Grete_Knudsen.
- Lars_Sponheim predecessor Svein_Alsaker.
- Lars_Sponheim residence Bergen.
- Lars_Sponheim successor Odd_Eriksen.
- Lars_Sponheim successor Terje_Riis-Johansen.