Their husbands' misdeeds leave Norway's most powerful women facing the consequences
The political careers of two of Norway’s most powerful women are under threat after it was revealed that their husbands were trading in shares behind their backs STAVANGER, Norway -- The political careers of two of Norway’s most powerful women are under threat after it was revealed that their husband s were trading in shares behind their backs. Anniken Huitfeldt, the current foreign minister of the center-left Labor Party, and Norway's former conservative prime minister for eight years, Erna Solberg, are having to explain why they were making decisions in office that could potentially have enriched their spouses. The cases of the two women on opposite sides of the political divide are separate but their defense is more or less the same: they say they didn’t know what their husband s were up to. And rivals are calling for both women to stand down. Rasmus Hansson, a lawmaker for the Green Party said the pair were damaging the reputation of Norwegian Politics and urged them both ...