MGD’s national meeting starts on Friday at Fornebu, outside Oslo. Here, Lan Marie Berg will inform the party that she is giving up politics and as deputy leader of the party.
Dagens Næringsliv was the first to report on the matter.
– She will not seek re-election in 2025, but will continue to be parliamentary leader and deputy leader in the party for another year and a half, says Nora Sælnes, press contact for Lan Marie Berg to VG.
– I never dreamed of becoming a politician
In an interview with Dagens Næringsliv, Berg says that she will not stand for re-election to the Storting, and that if she is re-elected as deputy leader, she will resign from office already at the next national assembly, which is in 2025.
Berg tells Dagens Næringsliv that her giving herself up in politics is not about toddlerhood, time constraints or unrest in the party.
– I had never dreamed of becoming a politician, and suddenly I became a city councilor in Oslo. Now after ten years, I feel that I owe it to myself to see what’s outside too, she says to DN.
For her, it’s about saying no to political commitments that last four years after 2025, she tells DN.
She denies that she is resigning as a result of the harassment she has experienced as a politician.
– No, those who have tried to scare me away have actually made me more determined to continue. It is important to say that if you are a woman from a minority background and have a politician in your belly, then dare to throw yourself into it. I was surprised at how tough I was, and I think many people will feel that if they get to work with something they are passionate about, she tells DN.
Lan Marie Nguyen Berg has experienced a lot of violence in her time as a politician. Among other things, when she came out with the news that she was pregnant in autumn 2018.
She called the crude comments “unacceptable” and “unpleasant and sad”, in a case in VG.
Nguyen Berg and Eivind Trædal became parents to daughter Ragna Mai in May 2019.
Lan Marie Berg has previously spoken out about the harassment she has received.
More people give up in politics
The MDG politician is not the only one who has decided to give himself up in politics.
Earlier in April, it became known that Conservative Party deputy leader Tina Bru (37) has decided not to stand for re-election to the Storting.
Then she said that she will prioritize her family and children ahead of four more years in the Storting.
Kari Elisabeth Kaski (SV) told a few days later that she will also stand for the Storting after the election in 2025.
Kaski told VG that she was tired of internal strife and political disagreements.
Kaski has sat in the Storting since 2017. She comes from Kirkenes in Finnmark, but lives in and is elected from Oslo. Before she became a representative of the Storting, she was party secretary in SV and deputy chair of the environmental foundation Zero.
Facts about Lan Marie Berg
* Born on 4 March 1987 in Oslo.
* Has a master’s degree in social science from the University of Oslo.
* Previously worked at the research foundation Cicero Center for climate research.
* Was environmental councilor in Oslo from 2015 to 2021.
* On 16 June 2021, the Oslo City Council passed a vote of no confidence in Berg, and the entire Oslo City Council consisting of the three parties Ap, SV and MDG, under the leadership of Raymond Johansen, chose to resign.
* In 2022, she was elected parliamentary leader and the party’s deputy leader. She is nominated as deputy leader at the party’s national meeting next weekend.
* Will not stand for re-election to the Storting next year.
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