Unprecedented: Nobel Peace
Prize chair who oversaw Obama award demoted
The Nobel Peace
Prize Committee’s chairman has been removed from his post for the first time in
the award’s 114-year history. He’s been criticized over a number of the panel’s
controversial picks, like US president and the EU.
Ousted Chairman
Thorbjoern Jagland, a former Norwegian Labor prime minister, had been in charge
of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for six years before he was voted out on
Tuesday. He will remain a member of the committee, but the leading role has
been passed on to the panel's deputy chairman, Kaci Kullmann Five, a former
conservative party leader.
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