# Torstein Dahle

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**Torstein Dahle** (born 20 February 1947) is a Norwegian politician and economist. He works at the [Bergen University College](/source/Bergen_University_College) and represents [Red Party](/source/Red_Party_(Norway)) in the city council of [Bergen](/source/Bergen). Dahle was born in [Oslo](/source/Oslo).

At age 14, Dahle joined [Lambertseter](/source/Lambertseter) [Youth Conservatives](/source/Unge_H%C3%B8yre) (Unge Høyre). He attended [Oslo Cathedral School](/source/Oslo_Cathedral_School) and [Oslo Commerce School](/source/Oslo_Commerce_School).[1] After moving to Bergen in 1966, he moved to the far left and co-founded the [Maoist](/source/Maoism) group [AKP(m-l)](/source/Workers'_Communist_Party_(Norway)) in the early 1970s. He remained in the party until 1997.

From 2003 to 2007, Dahle led the AKP(m-l)-initiated [Red Electoral Alliance](/source/Red_Electoral_Alliance), which he had also helped establish. He continued to lead the [Red Party](/source/Red_(Norway)), a 2007 merger of AKP(m-l) and the Red Electoral Alliance. In 2010, he was succeeded as Red Party leader by [Turid Thomassen](/source/Turid_Thomassen).

Dahle is openly [gay](/source/Gay_men) since the late 1960s.[2]

## References

1. Lee, Irina (August 2013). ["Ser rødt i opposisjon"](http://www.magma.no/ser-rodt-i-opposisjon) (in Norwegian). *Magma*. Econas Informasjonsservice. Retrieved 28 April 2014.

1. [*Dag og Tid* article](http://www.dagogtid.no/arkiv/1997/35/dahle.html) (in Norwegian)

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