page_title: Ketil Solvik-Olsen
section_title: Political views
hierarchical_section_title: Ketil Solvik-Olsen / Political views
caption_attribution_description: 2. desember 2013 var samferdselsminister Ketil Solvik-Olsen (t.v.) i Brussel for å møte europaparlamentariker Pilar Del Castillo (t.h.), Europaparlamentets rapportør på ekompakken. Bak fra venstre: statssekretær Jon Georg Dale og politisk rådgiver Reynir Jóhannesson. Foto: Stian Mathisen, EU-delegasjonen
context_page_description: Ketil Solvik-Olsen is a Norwegian politician of the Progress Party who served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 2013 to 2018 and as the party’s second deputy leader from 2013 to 2019.
  He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament for Rogaland from 2005, until deciding not to seek renomination in 2013.
context_section_description: Solvik-Olsen has stated that he thinks Norway needs a "liberalism that is pragmatic". He was noted as a critic of the Red-Green governmental environmental policies, claiming their policies to be based too much on "symbol politics" and unrealistic ambitious goals, instead of seeking feasible realistic options. He has said that he is personally social conservative, though is liberal with regards to how other people wish to live their lives.
  He has stated that Ronald Reagan is his foremost political hero, though he also has pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy decorating his home.
caption: Solvik-Olsen during a meeting with Pilar del Castillo in Brussels, Belgium.
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