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Place of Birth: Stange, Hedmark, Norway
About Aksel Hagen
- Aksel Hagen is a Norwegian politician and member of the Storting, representing the Socialist Left Party (SV) in the county of Oppland.
- He was elected to parliament following the 2009 parliamentary election by winning Oppland's leveling seat.
- He sits on the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs.Hagen has a doctoral degree from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
- He was a member of the Lillehammer municipality council between 1991 and 2003, deputy county mayor of Oppland from 2003 to 2007, and a member of the Oppland county council from 2007 until his election to parliament.
- Hagen was deputy leader of SV's local Oppland chapter between 1998 and 2000, before become the chapter's leader between 2000 and 2004.Hagen is cohabitant with Turid Thomassen, a politician of Red.During his successful campaign, Hagen identified narrowing the gap between rich and poor as his most important issue.
- In parliament, Hagen is SV's spokesperson on educational affairs, and supports longer school hours and the abolition of homework at the elementary school level (1st-7th grade).
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