Hans Andreas Limi
Limi in 2016
First Deputy Leader of the Progress Party
Assumed office
30 April 2023
LeaderSylvi Listhaug
Preceded byKetil Solvik-Olsen
Parliamentary Leader for the Progress Party
In office
2 October 2017 – 27 January 2020
LeaderSiv Jensen
Preceded byHarald T. Nesvik
Succeeded bySiv Jensen
Member of the Storting
Assumed office
1 October 2013
ConstituencyAkershus
Oslo City Commissioner for Finance and Planning
In office
24 April 1991 – 1 January 1992
Governing MayorMichael Tetzschner
Preceded bySverre Frich jr.
Succeeded byRune Bjerke
General Secretary of the Progress Party
In office
1988 – May 1994
LeaderCarl I. Hagen
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byGeir Mo
Personal details
Born (1960-09-26) 26 September 1960 (age 63)
Skien, Telemark, Norway
Political partyProgress
Spouse
Vibeke Limi
​
(m. 1984)​
Children3

Hans Andreas Limi (born 26 September 1960) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Progress Party. He is currently an MP for the Akershus constituency since 2013 and the party's first deputy leader since 2023. He previously served as the party's parliamentary leader from 2017 to 2020.

Career

Party politics

Limi was the secretary-general in the Youth of the Progress Party from 1984 to 1986. He was then an office manager in the Progress Party from 1986 to 1988 and then secretary-general[1] until May 1994. He then withdrew, shortly after the 1994 Progress Party national convention.[2]

He was the party's parliamentary leader from 2017 to 2020.[3]

In March 2023, he announced his candidacy for the deputy leadership, succeeding retiring Ketil Solvik-Olsen.[4] He was endorsed by the party county chapters of Viken, Oslo, Rogaland, Innlandet and Vestland, in addition to the Progress Party's Youth.[5] Limi was formally elected at the party convention on 30 April.[6]

Local politics

Limi was a member of the executive committee of Skien city council (his home town) from 1983 to 1987. In the 1987 Norwegian local elections he was elected to Oslo city council, but he took leave from his position in 1989. He became city commissioner of finance in Oslo when he took over after Sverre Frich, Jr. in April 1991, and sat throughout the year.[1]

In 2011, he made a political comeback as he was elected to the Bærum municipal council.[7]

Parliament

In 2013, he was elected to the Storting from the Akershus constituency.[8] He was re-elected in 2017 and 2021.

In parliament, he is currently a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Preparatory Credentials Committee since 2021. He was previously a member of the Election Committee in 2017 and served as its second vice chair from 2017 to 2020. He sat on the Standing Committee on Finance from 2013 to 2017 and again from 2020 to 2021. He further sat on the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence from 2017 to 2020 and concurrently the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. He was also the second vice chair of the Standing Committee on Finance from May to September 2021.[9]

Outside politics

Limi was hired as property manager in the Olav Thon Group.[2] He was later a development director in Steen & Strøm[10] and from 2005 director in ICA Norway.[11]

Limi has been a member of the Broadcasting Council.[12]

Personal life

He is married to party colleague Vibeke Limi.[1] The couple has three children.

References

  1. ^ a b c «Den nye finansbyråden sitter frem til nyttår». Aftenposten (19 April 1991)
  2. ^ a b «Fra Hagen til Thon». VG (31 May 1994)
  3. ^ "Limi blir parlamentarisk leder for Frp" (in Norwegian). E24. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Knallhard kamp om å bli Listhaugs nummer to" (in Norwegian). NRK. 15 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Frp: Hoksrud trekker seg som nestlederkandidat" (in Norwegian). NRK. 20 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Hans Andreas Limi er valgt som ny 1. nestleder i Frp" (in Norwegian). NRK. 30 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  7. ^ A b Wright, Martin. "Limi elected new county leader in FRP." Budstikka, p. 5 (23 January 2012).
  8. ^ Svenningsen, Jens ("Limi heading towards Parliament." Budstikka, p. 7. (11 December 2012))
  9. ^ "Biografi: Limi, Hans Andreas" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  10. ^ «Finansnotiser». Dagens Næringsliv (17 March 2000)
  11. ^ "Etableringsdirektør på plass i ICA Norge" (Press release) (in Norwegian). ICA Norge. 11 April 2005. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
  12. ^ «I korte trekk : Kringkastingsråd» Aftenposten (19 December 1989)
Party political offices Preceded byposition created Secretary-general of the Progress Party 1988–1994 Succeeded byGeir Mo Preceded byHarald T. Nesvik Parliamentary Leader of the Progress Party 2017–2020 Succeeded bySiv Jensen Preceded byKetil Solvik-Olsen First Deputy Leader of the Progress Party 2023–present Incumbent Political offices Preceded bySverre Frich, Jr. Oslo City Commissioner of Finance and Planning 1991–1992 Succeeded byRune Bjerke
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