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Place of Birth: Askøy, Hordaland, Norway
About Laila Reiertsen
- Laila Marie Reiertsen, née Bjørkhaug (born 19 October 1960) is a Norwegian politician from Hordaland, residing in Os representing the Progress Party. Reiertsen was born at Askøy, Hordaland in 1960 to Bjarne Bjørkhaug (born 1935) and Målfrid Mathilde Heggøy (born 1940).
- Reiertsen was married when she was sixteen years old to her one-year older husband.
- When she was seventeen, she gave birth to their first of four children.
- Reiertsen joined the Progress Party already in 1980, when she was twenty years old, and from 1987 to 1994 served as chairman of the Os chapter of the party.
- She finished her three-year education as a nurse at Betanien Nursing College in 1995.Reiertsen worked at Haukeland University Hospital from 1995, then in various care facilities, both private and municipal.
- She led a unit in Bergen Hospital Trust from 2006 to 2007, headed a department at a care center in Os and led Ravneberghaugen Rehabilitation Center from 2009.
- She was elected to Os municipal council from 1995 to 2011 and deputy member of Hordaland county council from 2003 to 2011.She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway during the term 2005–2009.
- Prior to the 2009 election, Reiertsen called care for the elderly her main issue.
- She has called for better funding of Helse Vest to stop the spectre of cutbacks in healthcare.
- Reiertsen has been critical of the Bergen Light Rail, and argued for more bus lanes instead.
- In the 2009 parliamentary election she won Hordaland's leveling seat, becoming her party's fourth representative in that county.
- She sat on the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs.In the 2013 election she again became a deputy representative.
- In June 2015 she advanced to regular representative again, covering for Gjermund Hagesæter who became State Secretary.
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