Arrived in Norway with his parents at the age of 5, this young Labor MP became, at the end of November, the president of an institution shaken by cases of abuse committed by certain elected officials. Since then, he has taken the bull by the horns, reports the kingdom press.
On November 25, Masud Gharahkhani assumed the post of Speaker of the Norwegian Parliament, the second highest political office in the country, behind the king. Never before has a person born abroad held this position. The applicant was born in Tehran in 1982 and was only 5 years old when he fled the Islamist Republic with his father, a trade unionist, his mother and “A dollar in poche”, he tells on public radio and television NRK.
Young Masud grew up for a time in a reception center for refugees. To earn a living, his parents picked strawberries. Then her mother became a teacher and her father a municipal employee in charge of integration. He himself worked in a hospital as a radiologist, while joining the Labor Party. Elected municipal, he entered the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament, in 2017. This fall, the kid from Tehran was appointed to its head, at 39 years old. His work, he said at the time, quoted in Aftenposten, “Will consist in restoring confidence in this house”. He added: “It won’t be easy, everyone sees it, but I’m motivated by this cleaning job.”
Confidence at half mast
In fact, the credibility of this institution has suffered from various cases. Two of its three previous presidents had to resign in less than four years. One, in 2018, for his responsibility in the drifting costs of renovating the seat of Parliament. The other, the
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Antoine Jacob
