Norway's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party Erna Solberg (C, front), Minister of Finance and leader of the Progress Party Siv Jensen (2nd L, front), Minister of Culture and Equality and leader of the Liberal Party Trine Skei Grande (2nd R, front) and other members of Norway's new cabinet meet the press in Oslo, Norway, on Jan. 22, 2019. Norway announced changes in the cabinet on Tuesday after the ruling minority three-party coalition reached a deal last week to add the small Christian Democratic Party to form a center-right majority government. (Xinhua/Zhang Shuhui)
OSLO, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Norway announced changes in the cabinet on Tuesday after the ruling minority three-party coalition reached a deal last week to add the small Christian Democratic Party to form a center-right majority government.
Minister of International Development Nikolai Astrup has been appointed Minister of Digitalisation, while state secretary of the oil ministry Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde has been appointed Minister of Public Security, the announcement said.
Three politicians from the Christian Democratic Party -- Kjell Ingolf Ropstad, Olaug Vervik Bollestad and Dag Inge Ulstein -- have respectively been appointed Minister of Children and Families, Minister of Agriculture and Food and Minister of International Development.
At the same time, Minister of Children and Equality Linda Hofstad Helleland and Minister of Agriculture and Food Bard Andre Hoksrud "have been honourably discharged from their offices," the announcement said.
After the reshuffle, the enlarged cabinet has 22 members -- nine from Prime Minister Erna Solberg's Conservative Party, seven from the Progress Party, three from the the Liberal Party and three from the Christian Democratic Party.
Norway's four center-right parties retained their majority in the latest parliament election in 2017. The Conservative Party and the Progress Party formed a minority government and later expanded its ranks by adding the small Liberal Party in early 2018, but was still not enough to have a majority.
The Christian Democratic Party decided in November to launch negotiations to join the government and the parties reached a deal last Thursday.
