Charlotte Therkelsen

Charlotte Therkelsen (born 29 July 1981) is a Norwegian politician representing the Red Party. She has been a deputy representative to the Storting since 2021, the party's second deputy leader and the mayor of Kragerø since 2023.

Charlotte Therkelsen
Mayor of Kragerø
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 October 2023
Deputy	Jonas Nilsen
Preceded by	Grunde Wegar Knudsen
Second Deputy Leader of the Red Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 April 2023
Leader	Bjørnar Moxnes Marie Sneve Martinussen
Preceded by	Silje Josten Kjosbakken
Deputy Member of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2021
Constituency	Telemark
Deputy Mayor of Kragerø
In office 22 October 2015 – 17 October 2019
Mayor	Jone Blikra
Preceded by	Henriette Fluer Vikre
Succeeded by	Jan Petter Abrahamsen
Personal details
Born	(1981-07-29) 29 July 1981 (age 43)[1]
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Red
Occupation	Politician

Political career

Parliament

A member of the Red Party, Therkelsen was elected deputy representative to the Storting from the constituency of Telemark for the period 2021–2025.^[1]

Deputy party leader

She was elected second deputy leader for the Red Party in April 2023.^[2]

Local politics

Therkelsen was deputy mayor in Kragerø from 2015 to 2019.^[3][4] She succeeded Henriette Fluer Vikre in the position and served with Jone Blikra as mayor.^[5] Following the 2019 local elections, she was succeeded by Jan Petter Abrahamsen.^[6][7] She was elected mayor of Kragerø following the 2023 local elections, with independent Jonas Nilsen as deputy mayor.^[8][9]

In September 2024, she expressed that the municipality of Kragerø was in a difficult economic situation, when Kragerø had been included in the Register for Governmental Approval of Financial Obligations (the ROBEK list), and the county governor had not approved the municipal budget for 2024.^[10][11]

References

1. "Charlotte Therkelsen" (in Norwegian). Storting. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
2. "Ny nestleder og partisekretær i Rødt". Altinget (in Norwegian). 22 April 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
3. "Roste forgjengeren". www.pressreader.com (in Norwegian Bokmål). 23 October 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
4. Scheistrøen, Line (29 August 2019). "Hvorfor er Rødt så store i Kragerø? Her er noe av grunnen". Fri Fagbevegelse (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
5. Fivelstad, Jon (6 October 2011). "Kragerøs nye ledelse". Kragerø Blad Vestmar (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2 January 2025.
6. "Både Grunde og Jan Petter får etterlønn i tre måneder". Kragerø Blad Vestmar (in Norwegian Bokmål). 18 November 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2025. ETTERLØNN: Grunde Wegar Knudsen (t.h.) og Jan Petter Abrahamsen var henholdsvis ordfører og varaordfører i perioden 2019 til 2023. [SEVERANCE PAY: Grunde Wegar Knudsen (to the right) and Jan Petter Abrahamsen served as mayor and deputy mayor during the 2019-2023 term respectively.]
7. "Her er det nye formannskapet og lederne i hovedutvalgene". Kragerø Blad Vestmar (in Norwegian Bokmål). 18 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
8. Lilleås, Heidi Schei (23 April 2023). "Vil bli ordfører – og kutte lønnen med 260.000". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
9. Bohlin, Christopher (20 October 2023). "Charlotte Therkelsen (R) er ny ordfører". kragero.kommune.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
10. Kolve, André Rajan (21 February 2024). "Kragerø på ROBEK-lista: – En varslet katastrofe" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 15 September 2024.
11. Buaas, Tom Ole (13 September 2024). "Kommuner lever på kreditt: – Varsellampene bør på". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2024.