Kjell Magne Bondevik is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served as the 33rd prime minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him, after Erna Solberg, Norway's second longest serving non-Labour Party prime minister since World War II. Currently, Bondevik is president of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights.
Kjell Magne Bondevik during the session of the Nordic Council in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2004
Bondevik with U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C., 16 May 2003
The politics of Norway take place in the framework of a parliamentary, representative democratic constitutional monarchy. Executive power is exercised by the Council of State, the cabinet, led by the prime minister of Norway. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the legislature, the Storting, elected within a multi-party system. The judiciary is independent of the executive branch and the legislature.
Harald V has been King of Norway since 1991. The Norwegian king has mainly symbolic powers.
Kåre Willoch (Conservative Party) was Prime Minister from 1981 until 1986.
Thorbjørn Jagland (Labour) was Prime Minister 1996–97. He has later become Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Stortinget, Oslo
