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Place of Birth: Alta, Northern Norway, Norway
About Olav Gunnar Ballo
- Olav Gunnar Ballo (born 22 October 1956) is a Norwegian former politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV).
- Ballo changed party to Arbeiderpartiet in 2011.
- Ballo was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1997.
- He studied medicine at University of Würzburg, and has worked as a medical doctor.
- Ballo represented SV in Alta municipality council from 1991-1997.
- Ballo was the leader of the National Forensics Institute ("Rettsmedisinsk institutt") in Norway between 2009 and 2010/2011. Ballo lost his daughter Kaja Bordevich Ballo in 2008.
- She committed suicide on 28 March 2008.
- This happened some hours after she had taken a Scientology personality test.
- The news made the front page of Norway's biggest newspapers, such as Verdens Gang and Dagbladet.
- Ballo divorced his first wife of 15 years in 1998.
- In 1999 he met, and later married, Heidi Sørensen, a politician for the Socialist Left.
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