During a short week in early March, Hadia Tajik experienced one of the biggest falls in Norwegian politics.
The politician who, according to Kapital, was Norway’s most powerful woman, resigned as both Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion and deputy leader of the Labor Party.
But Dagbladet can now tell that she is formally still deputy leader of the party. In the Labor Party’s official entries in the Brønnøysund registers, Tajik is still registered as deputy leader.
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As recently as 16 May, Tajik is still listed as deputy leader of the Labor Party in the state register of enterprises and organizations, as well as in the Party Register.
This means that she still holds this position for the state and the public sector in Norway, and bears the responsibility that comes with being a deputy head of an organization.
Hadia Tajik has been on sick leave since she resigned as deputy leader, and has thus not performed any tasks for the party or as an elected representative since.
Dagbladet was this week the first to experience that Tajik returns to work this week. Then she will meet again in the Storting.
– I look forward to having Hadia back in the group on Monday. She is one of our most talented politicians, said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to Dagbladet.
Tajik resigned as deputy leader of Norway’s largest party on March 6 after a series of revelations about her commuter apartments and apartments she owned privately at the same time. Dagbladet could, among other things, tell how she earned money by renting out an apartment in her home county while she received free housing from the state.
Just four days earlier, she had announced at a press conference that she had resigned as Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion.
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– No messages
Dagbladet has investigated whether the listing of Tajiks as deputy may be due to an error on the page or a delay in the system, but the Brønnøysund registers reject this to Dagbladet.
“Our professionals say that if the message is found to be in order and can be registered, the changes are entered in the register and become publicly available after a few hours or the next day, depending on which register changes are reported and which changes are reported,” writes the communications department in an email.
One day later, the department for register management confirms that they have not been informed by the Labor Party that Tajik is no longer deputy leader, and that she is also still listed as deputy leader in the independent Party Register.
“We can confirm that as of today we have no reports from the Labor Party for processing, neither to the Unity Register nor to the Party Register.”
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– Formality
The Labor Party believes this is not a big deal, and calls it all a formality.
– It is a formality that has not been followed up in Hadia Tajik’s sick leave, writes communications manager Ingrid Langerud in an e-mail.
The Brønnøysund registers tell Dagbladet that anyone with a role can register their resignation.
“The association can report a change in the board, but documentation must be attached confirming the new board / change,” the register writes in an e-mail.
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