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Vidar Kleppe
Vidar Sveinung Kleppe (born 16 September 1963) is a Norwegian politician. He was a Member of Parliament and deputy leader of the Progress Party until he was suspended and left the party in 2001. He was the leader of the Democrats party from 2002 to 2012, and has since 2003 held office as a member of the Vest-Agder county council and the Kristiansand municipal council.
Early and personal life
Kleppe was born in Bergen, Norway to CEO Erling Kleppe (1941–1989) and his wife Harriet Uthaug (born 1944), and was raised in Fedje. He received education at a mechanical school from 1980 to 1981, and after this went to sea for a year. When he came back he worked as an industrial labourer in Kristiansand for four years, until 1987 when he was a businessman for two years. As of July 2007 he is married and have three children, and is occupied as a seller. For his wedding, Jan Simonsen was his best man.
Political career
Progress Party, 1980s–2001
Kleppe was a prominent politician for the Progress Party during the 1990s, and was a member of their national board from 1989 to 1999. He was a Member of Parliament for two periods, from 1989 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2001. From 1995 to 1999 he was the second deputy leader of the party. He also held the office as a member of the Kristiansand municipal council from 1987 to 1999. During electoral campaigns in 1999, Kleppe, together with his close party colleague Øystein Hedstrøm, notably ran numerous campaigns together, popularly known as the "Hedstrøm & Kleppe Show", where they discussed issues regarding immigration and integration.
Kleppe
Kleppe is a village in, and the administrative centre of, the municipality of Klepp, in the county of Rogaland, Norway.
"Kleppe" comes from the old Nordic word "kleppr": stone, hill. The population around Kleppe is growing rapidly, mostly in the form of suburban single-family homes, but also in the form of apartment blocks. The village itself has around 3,000 inhabitants - but including the neighboring Verdalen the area has 7,348 (2009 "urban settlement" statistics from Statistics Norway).
Coordinates: 58°46′25″N 5°37′58″E / 58.77361°N 5.63278°E
Kleppe (disambiguation)
Kleppe or Klepp can refer to
- Klepp Station, a railway station in the municipality of Klepp, Norway
- Klepp I Runestone, a runestone found in Klepp, Norway
- Kleppe v. New Mexico, a 1976 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court
