Gunnar_Viken

Gunnar Viken

Gunnar Viken

Norwegian politician

Gunnar Johannes Viken (born 9 July 1948 in Levanger) is a Norwegian dairy farmer and politician for the Conservative Party. Since 2007 he has been county mayor of Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality.

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Viken has been a member of the Nord-Trøndelag County Council since 1999 and a deputy member of the Storting since 2013. Prior to his election as county mayor in 2007, he chaired the Conservative Party group in the county council for 4 years and the county agricultural board for 12 years.[1][2] He entered politics as a member of the municipal council of Mosvik in the early 1980s. Viken did not seek his party's renomination to the county council in 2015.[3]

Raised on a family farm in Mosvik, he passed the National Driving Teacher School and managed a driving school in Levanger from 1976 to 1982. Since 1982 he has been a dairy farmer and forester in Mosvik.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Høyres Gunnar Viken blir ny fylkesordfører". Namdalsavisa (in Norwegian). 15 October 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
  2. [2]
    Arntsen, Håkon (9 September 2008). "Gunnar Viken 60". Trønder-Avisa (in Norwegian). p. 39.
  3. [3]
    Rossing, Sivert (13 June 2014). "Klart for store utskiftinger i fylkespolitikken". Trønder-Avisa (in Norwegian). pp. 10–11.
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