Emilie Enger Mehl

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Emilie Enger Mehl
Emilie Enger Mehl.jpg
Mehl in March 2015
Minister of Justice
Assumed office
14 October 2021
Prime MinisterJonas Gahr Støre
Preceded byMonica Mæland
Member of the Storting
Assumed office
9 October 2017
DeputyMargrethe Haarr
ConstituencyHedmark
Personal details
Born (1993-08-08) 8 August 1993 (age 28)
Lørenskog, Akershus, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyCentre
EducationJurisprudence
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
OccupationPolitician

Emilie Enger Mehl (born 8 August 1993) is a Norwegian jurist and politician from the Centre Party. She has served as minister of justice since 2021 and Member of parliament since 2017.

Personal life and education[]

Mehl was born in Lørenskog on 8 August 1993,[1] a daughter of Eivind Mehl and Ellen Enger Müller.[2] She holds a Master of laws (LL.M.) from the University of Oslo Faculty of Law.[1][3]

Career[]

Parliament[]

Mehl was elected representative to the Storting for the period 2017–2021 for the Centre Party.[4] She was member of the Standing Committee on Justice from 2017 to 2020,[5] and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2017 to 2021.[6] From 2020 to 2021 she was member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. She was re-elected to the Storting for the period 2021–2025, and was replaced by deputy Margrethe Haarr while being part of the Støre's Cabinet from October 2021.[2]

Local politics[]

She was elected representative to the county council of Hedmark from 2015.[7]

Minister of Justice[]

She was appointed minister of justice on 14 October 2021.[8] At the time of her appointment, she became the country's youngest person to serve as minister of justice.[9]

The day after her appointment, she and prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre visited Kongsberg following an attack against five people who were killed by a man with a bow and arrow. There they lay down flowers in memory of the victims.[10]

Following multiple shootings occurring in Oslo, Mehl expressed concerns over the recent developments. She specifically expressed concerns about shootings occurring on open streets and near schools, and stressed that criminals shouldn’t be allowed to use these spaces for their own benefits and putting innocent lives at risk. Mehl also stressed that Oslo should be a safe place, and said she was going to meet local police and municipality the week after.[11]

The Green Party’s spokesperson for social policy, Farid Shariati called on Mehl to establish a commission to look into all matters of the police’s abuse of power in drug cases. He also accused Mehl of playing political games and being afraid to do her job after she responded by saying she that she would stick to what the Director of Public Prosecutions investigation concludes, and his evaluation of the police’s handling of drug cases.[12]

In early November, Mehl visited the Stovner police station to meet with its chief, Beate Gangås, to discuss the recent shootings that occurred in the capital, in the wake of eight young men being shot over the span of ten weeks.[13] Following the visit, she emphasised that Oslo is a safe city, but also expressed understanding for people who might be concerned.[14]

Following concerns from the Children’s Ombudsman about the reversal of the courts reform, Mehl stated that the government was interested in local protest to the reform in means of going through with it. She also emphasised with the Ombudsman’s concerns for children’s welfare.[15]

Ahead of the revised state budget, Mehl promised an extra 200 million NOK to be spent on the police. She said it was long term work, and that the government would go through the Solberg Cabinet’s police reform and put forward a plan to strengthen the police. She also said the government would evaluate the Police Directorate. The Conservative Party’s spokesperson for justice policy, Sveinung Stensland, said that Mehl had to “get out of the campaign fog”, and that the police didn’t need more stations, but more officers. He also criticised what he called the Centre Party’s “reversal-mania”, which he alleged would damage national security and police preparedness.[16]

On 17 November, Mehl rejected the Norwegian Correctional Service’s proposal of reducing the amount of prisons from 32 to 13. She stated that it wasn’t the governments wish to do so, and that they would keep the current structure and continue the foundational staffing of the prisons.[17]

On 5 December, Mehl stated she wanted the old court structure back early into the parliamentary term. She expressed that there was a danger for smaller courts to suffer from worker losses due to the previous governments court reform, which reduced the amount of courts from 60 to 23. She also expressed that the government had to listen to others then just the top leaders in the justice sector. The Conservative Party’s spokesperson for justice policy, Sveinung Stensland, criticised Mehl, referring to that multiple levels of the justice sector, disagreed with her decision.[18]

On 9 December, Mehl announced that 40 million NOK of the promised 200 million to the police, would be spent on the Oslo police. She also promised a fight against gang violence and recruitment of minors in the capitol.[19]

Following demands to regulate pyro usage at football tribunes, Mehl met with Supporter-Norge representatives on 14 December to discuss regulation. She expressed that the meeting had been productive, whilst different spokespersons from various Supporter-Norge organisations also expressed optimism following the meeting. Mehl also stated that safety would be the priority when it would come to a subsequent new evaluation of the existing regulation.[20]

Other[]

Mehl is previously known as the winner of the first season (2015) of the Norwegian reality show  [no].[21]

She also participated in the third season of Kompani Lauritzen, but did not accept payment for her participation, but instead wished for her remuneration to be donated to charity organisations.[22]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Tvedt, Knut Are. "Emilie Enger Mehl". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Mehl, Emilie (1993-)". stortinget.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Østlendingen - Emilie Enger Mehl er fersk jurist og klar for justiskomiteen". www.ostlendingen.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  4. ^ "Valgresultat 2017. Hedmark". NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Mehl, Emilie Enger". Stortinget. 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  6. ^ "Europarådets parlamentarikerforsamling (PACE)". Stortinget (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  7. ^ "Emilie Enger Mehl". www.hedmark.org (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Norge har fått ny regjering" (in Norwegian). NRK. 14 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Emilie Enger Mehl (Sp) blir tidenes yngste justisminister". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 14 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Støre og Mehl la ned blomster i Kongsberg" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Justisministeren etter skyteepisoder i Oslo: - Bekymringsfullt" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 26 October 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  12. ^ "- Redd for å gjøre jobben" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. 28 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Justisministeren besøker Stovner politistasjon for å diskutere skytinger" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Justisministeren etter Oslo-skytingene: – Oslo er en trygg by" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Barneombudet advarer regjeringen mot å endre domstolene" (in Norwegian). NRK. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Mehl lover 200 millioner ekstra til politiet" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Justisministeren med klar beskjed: – Norske fengsler skal ikke sentraliseres" (in Norwegian). NRK Troms og Finnmark. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  18. ^ "Varsler rask reversering av domstolsreformen" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. 5 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  19. ^ "Lover kamp mot gjengkriminelle: − Viktig for meg" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  20. ^ "Optimistiske supportere etter møte med justisministeren" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  21. ^ Ratvik, Elise Hellem (6 March 2015). "Anno-vinner: – Har blitt ekstremt god på pokerfjes". NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  22. ^ "Justisminister Emilie Enger Mehl gir bort «Kompani Lauritzen»-honorar" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
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