Office: | Deputy Member of the Storting |
Term Start: | 1 October 2021 |
Constituency: | Vest-Agder |
Term Start2: | 1 October 2017 |
Term End2: | 30 September 2021 |
1Blankname2: | Member |
Constituency2: | Aust-Agder |
Office3: | Deputy Mayor of Lillesand |
Term Start3: | 15 October 2015 |
Term End3: | 17 October 2019 |
1Blankname3: | Mayor |
1Namedata3: | Arne Thomassen |
Predecessor3: | Hege Marie Holthe |
Successor3: | Geir Svenningsen |
Birth Date: | 29 February 1980 |
Birth Place: | Orkdal, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway |
Party: | Christian Democratic |
Jorunn Elisabet Gleditsch Lossius (born 29 February 1980) is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
Lossius has studied christianity, drama/theater and history at the University of Agder.
She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Aust-Agder during the term 2017 - 2021. She deputised for Kjell Ingolf Ropstad while he served as minister in Solberg's Cabinet between 2019 and 2021. She was elected deputy member for Vest-Agder in the 2021 election.
She caused a media stir in April 2021, after posting a picture on Facebook of her pregnant belly, which was a reaction to the Socialist Left Party's decision to extend the limit for self-determined abortion from the current Norwegian law which allows 12 weeks, to 22 weeks.[1]
She served as deputy mayor of Lillesand between 2015 and 2019.[2] She took over from the Conservatives' Hege Marie Holthe and was later succeeded by fellow party member Geir Svenningsen.[3] [4]
Following the 2023 local elections, she was elected deputy county mayor, with the Conservative Party's Arne Thomassen as county mayor.[5]