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Kjell Opseth
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Opseth in 2009.
Minister of Local Government
In office
25 October 1996 – 17 October 1997
Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland
Preceded by Gunnar Berge
Succeeded by Ragnhild Haarstad
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office
3 November 1990 – 25 October 1996
Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded by Lars Gunnar Lie
Succeeded by Sissel Rønbeck
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office
1 October 1981 – 30 September 2001
Constituency Sogn og Fjordane
Personal details
Born
Kjell Olav Opseth

(1936-01-02)2 January 1936
Førde, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Died 3 December 2017(2017-12-03) (aged 81)
Førde, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Political party Labour
Spouse Hjørdis Årberg (m. 1963)

Kjell Olav Opseth (2 January 1936 – 3 December 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Transport and Communications 1990–1996 and Minister of Local Government Affairs 1996–1997. As Transport Minister, he once observed of advertising hoardings featuring model Anna Nicole Smith that "on her own [she] is not a traffic hazard. It depends where she is."

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