Former City Council leader in Oslo and prominent Labor Party (AP) politician Rune Gerhardsen died on Saturday, at 75 years old.
In 2019, Rune Gerhardsen told the public that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, only a few weeks after he had conducted his last City Council meeting, over 30 years after his debut as an elected official in Oslo.
“You do not clap your hands and have a beer when you get such a diagnosis,” Gerhardsen told the newspaper Aftenposten in September 2019.
On Saturday, he died at Nordseterhjemmet, surrounded by his closest family.
Rich political career
Rune Gerhardsen was a member of Oslo City Council in 1988-1999, and he was elected City Council leader in 1992.
Gerhardsen was also a City Council leader candidate in 2003 and 2007, but lost by a narrow margin. In the municipal elections in 2011, he was the Labor Party’s mayoral candidate in Oslo.
He was the son of the longtime Labor Party Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen and Werna Julie Koren Christie, who was also active in Oslo politics.
Rune Gerhardsen was born in Oslo in 1946.
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