Their husbands’ misdeeds leave Norway’s most powerful women facing the consequences

Published September 21, 2023 5:41 AM

By MARK LEWIS
Associated Press

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The political careers of two of Norway’s most powerful women are under threat after it was revealed that their husbands were trading in shares behind their backs. Anniken Huitfeldt, the current center-left foreign minister, and the former conservative prime minister, Erna Solberg are having to explain why they were making decisions in office that could potentially have enriched their spouses. The cases of the two women on opposite sides of the political divide are separate but their defense is more or less the same: they say they didn’t know what their husbands were up to. Their political rivals are calling on both women to resign.

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