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Jagland and Party
Following the resignation of Brundtland in 1996, Thorbjørn Jagland was elected leader of the Labour Party and became Prime Minister, while Stoltenberg was appointed Minister of Finance, an office he held until 17 October 1997 when Jagland and the entire government resigned.
After poor results in the 2001 parliamentary election, and the subsequent fall of his government on 19 October of that same year, Stoltenberg successfully challenged Thorbjørn Jagland for the party leadership in 2002, and led the party to victory in the 2005 election by forming a Red-Green coalition government with the Centre Party ( Sp ) and the Socialist Left Party ( SV ).
Jagland won the post of Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party thanks to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions ( LO ) leader Yngve Hågensen, who would also later support Jagland's strategy for " 36. 9 %".
Erik Solheim, the leader of Socialist Left Party ( SV ), said that if Jagland resigned, " he would go down in history as Norway's most puzzling politician ".
Jagland was elected with only one blank vote, whereas his Progress Party opponent, Carl I. Hagen, had 25 blank votes in the Storting.
Critics accused Jagland of attacking the Red-Green Cabinet as revenge against Stoltenberg for forcing Jagland to resign as Labour Party leader in 2002.
After the announcement of Barack Obama as winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, the main opposition parties, the Progress Party and the Conservative Party, as well as several voices within his own Labour Party, demanded that Jagland resign his position as Chairman of the Nobel Committee, " in light of the award " as one party leader said, citing concerns that he may compromise the committee's independence when he simultaneously is head of the Council of Europe.
* Thorbjørn Jagland ( chair, born 1950 ), former Member of Parliament and President of the Storting and former Prime Minister for the Labour Party, current Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
In 2002 Bård Tufte Johansen, representing Åpen post, mocked the media's double set of morals when the Norwegian Labour Party leader Thorbjørn Jagland was hospitalised after sustained media pressure.

Jagland and leader
Stoltenberg was the deputy leader of the labor party while Jagland was the party leader.
In 2002, Jagland was replaced as party leader by Stoltenberg.
Prior to becoming Prime Minister, Jagland served as party secretary from 1986 to 1992, and subsequently party leader until 2002, when he was succeeded by Jens Stoltenberg.
During his first term, Jagland was a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, and also served as the fractional leader for the parliamentary group of the party.
The third cabinet Brundtland resigned, prompting the party leader Jagland to form a new cabinet.
In 2001, Jagland was replaced as party leader by Jens Stoltenberg the following year under circumstances many in the media deemed controversial.
Earlier that very year, an unnamed source within the party told the newspaper Dagbladet that Jagland " most likely " would remain leader up until 2004.
A new Labour cabinet, to be led by Jens Stoltenberg, was announced by King Harald V on 17 March 2000 ; although Jagland was still party leader at the time, he was passed over for the Prime Minister candidacy, and instead settled for Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Jagland, who had been both party leader and Prime Minister, had subsequently served only as foreign minister under Stoltenberg and thus moved downwards in his career.
Thorbjørn Jagland has been the Norwegian Nobel Committee's leader since 2009.
In 2009 he was succeeded as leader by Thorbjørn Jagland.

Jagland and on
Referring to Wikipedia, as source, on March 21, 2012, a reporter of the Hungarian Broadcast HirTV asked if Jagland had been an agent of the KGB.
Thorbjørn Jagland was born on 5 November 1950 in Drammen and is the son of a welder, Helge Th.
Jagland was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud in 1993, and has been re-elected on three occasions.
In his speech, Jagland said that he would not deviate much from Harlem Brundtland's policies, but that he would increase the focus on violence, abuse of alcohol and drugs, and crime, including improvement of preventative measures and the courts.
This ultimatum was based on the fact that Jagland had assumed the Prime Minister post based on the votes collected by Brundtland in the 1993 election, which provided an unclear parliamentary basis for governing.
Again, no party won a majority, so the power was given to the first cabinet of Kjell Magne Bondevik, with Jagland resigning on 29 September 1997.
After resigning as Prime Minister, Jagland continued as member of parliament in the term 1997 – 2001, when he was chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In 1998, Jagland made several now-famous statements that were met with ridicule, including, " We will come again, yes, we are here already ", " We put the foot down and stand on it " and " I usually don't look backwards, nor do i look forward ".
In 1998, Jagland was confronted with another incident, after being tricked by Synnøve Svabø into placing his hands on her breasts while on national television.
Jagland testified in the case and said it was not necessarily wrong to " advance " money for memberships, provided the members in question reimburse this fee later on.
Jagland stated on 2 February 2001 on the nationally broadcast television show I kveld med Per Ståle on TV 2 that " everybody at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs went around saying that ' now you are going to meet with Bongo from Congo.
In June, Jagland was invited to visit China by its foreign minister, Tang Jiaxuan ; Jagland left for China on 27 June 2001 and returned the following day.
Jagland, who said of the matter, " our opinion is that international law is on our side ", reported Australia to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Jørgen Kosmo, the previous President of the Storting, had not stood for parliamentary re-election, and Jagland was elected to this position by the members of parliament on 10 October 2005.
In 2007, Stoltenberg allowed Jagland to push through his plan to develop Storting as a stronger center for current political debates, thus increasing the power of the parliamentary members on issues from the cabinet.
On 7 July 2010, Viviane Reding had an official meeting with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, in order to launch joint talks on the EU's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Jagland and results
The disastrous results of 2001 were quickly followed by a bitter leadership battle between Jagland and Stoltenberg.
According to political scientist Trond Nordby, Jagland felt that a cabinet which achieved less than 36. 9 % would not be suited to achieve meaningful results in the face of a superior Parliament.

Jagland and will
Jagland told the newspaper Aftenposten he wanted more Norwegian soldiers sent to South Afghanistan: " The Norwegian special forces will certainly be welcome throughout the winter.
When asked about the case, Jagland responded: " It will in itself be a paradox if one questions the principle that freedom of speech is subject to the party whip.

Jagland and have
Jagland was widely perceived to have been passed over when Jens Stoltenberg formed his second cabinet in 2005.
Jagland stated in August 2008 that, " the Norwegian House could have been better planned and prepared, but I did not have the time.
Jagland has later said to the court that AUF should have received even more subsidies, referring to some of the other political youth parties that used similar methods for calculating membership numbers.
Three prime ministers, Trygve Bratteli, Thorbjørn Jagland and Jens Stoltenberg have been leaders in AUF.

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