Another candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize has been announced after Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A Norwegian MP announced on Friday that he had proposed that of NATO chief, fellow countryman Jens Stoltenberg, to assert its role against Russia in the war in Ukraine. “Stoltenberg deserves the award for his exemplary work as NATO Secretary General at a difficult time for the alliance: the brutal and unprovoked offensive against a peaceful neighboring country,” wrote Christian Tybring-Gjedde, representative of the anti-immigration populists, on his Facebook page directly in parliament.
The former Prime Minister of Norway (Labour) and head of NATO “understood from the first moment the seriousness and importance of Russian aggression for all countries that base their governance on democracy and freedoms,” he added.
Tens of thousands of people (parliamentarians and ministers of all countries, former laureates, certain university professors, etc.) are eligible to submit a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination deadline is January 31, when the five members of the Nobel Committee have the opportunity to complete the list with their own proposals at their first meeting. The Nobel Prize will be awarded at the beginning of October.
From Donald Trump to Jens Stoltenberg to Volodymyr Zelensky
Last year, Christian Tybring-Gjedde nominated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In the end, it was jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski – whose trial has just started in Minsk -, the Russian NGO Memorial – whose dissolution has been ordered by Russian courts – and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties that got him swept up in the war in the background. In 2021, Christian Tybring-Gjedde also promoted US President Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Nobel Prize.
The list of candidates is generally kept secret, but godparents can publicly reveal the identity of their “colt”. The president of the Pakistani Senate announced that he had nominated Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his peace efforts “before and during the Russia-Ukraine war”.