1 March 2024 at 14:05 Former Storting representative Erling Folkvord is dead Former Storting representative and Oslo city council member Erling Folkvord (R) is dead, the family informs NTB. He lived to be 74 years old. Folkvord died on Friday afternoon and was traveling in Stockholm in connection with a book project about Kurdistan and Palestine. Folkvord was born in Levanger in Trøndelag. He entered politics in the 60s, and from 1990 to 1997 he was deputy leader of the Workers’ Communist Party (AKP). He has also been a city council member in Oslo for the Rød Valgallianse, which later became the Rødt party together with the AKP. The Rødt politician was the first to get RV into the Storting, where he was a parliamentary representative from 1993 to 1997. Party leader of Rødt, Marie Sneve Martinussen, tells news that it is sad to receive the news of Folkvord’s death. – Erling was involved in Rødt, and even though he did not always agree with the choices Rødt made, he participated actively and has done an important job that has been important both for Rødt, Oslo and Norway. – On behalf of the entire Red movement, I would like to thank Erling for that. In addition to his political positions, Folkvord also had many other positions and affairs of the heart, says the party leader. – He committed himself against corruption and abuse of power. He became strongly involved in the Kurds’ cause. He committed himself to Palestine.
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