Olav Gunnar Ballo

Who is Olav Gunnar Ballo?

Olav Gunnar Ballo is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1997. He studied medicine at University of Würzburg, and has been a doctor. He represented SV in Alta municipality council from 1991-1997.

Ballo lost his daughter Kaja Bordevich Ballo in 2008. She committed suicide on March 28, 2008. This happened some hours after she had taken a Scientology personality test. The news entered the front page of Norway's biggest newspapers, such as Verdens Gang and Dagbladet. Ballo divorced his first wife of 15 years in 1998. In 1999 he met, and later married, Heidi Sørensen, a politician for the Socialist Left.