Marte Mjøs Persen

At a press conference on 29 April, the government announced that temporary changes to laws in order to include Ukrainian refugees. Mjøs Persen stated: "We must ensure that Ukrainian refugees have a safe and predictable everyday life as possible. At the same time, we know that the situation can be demanding for the municipalities, which already have many statutory tasks. Therefore, it is important that our bills address both of these considerations. The government is also proposing a temporary legal basis that allows for this. Among other things, it may be relevant to expand the target group for training in reception if the waiting time before settlement becomes long. All changes must be temporary and repealed no later than 1 July 2023. If there is a need to continue certain proposals, this will be considered and consulted again".

In a written response to the Progress Party's Marius Arion Nilsen on 4 January 2022, Persen revealed that the electricity prices would be around 13,000 NOK in Southern Norway for the first quarter. The usual cost is around 7,000 NOK. In her response, she said: "I would like to emphasize that these estimates are average calculations made by NVE based on various assumptions. Actual electricity bill will vary from household to household".

Following Hadia Tajik's resignation after controversy regarding the use of a government apartment and fringe benefit; Persen was appointed her successor on 7 March 2022.

She was elected representative to the Storting from the constituency of Hordaland for the period 2021–2025, for the Labour Party.

On 14 October 2021, Mjøs Persen was appointed minister of petroleum and energy in Støre's Cabinet.

With the AAP scheme having been temporarily abolished since 1 February, Mjøs Persen suggested on 11 May that the scheme should be permanently abolished. The background being that the scheme wouldn’t take effect before a waiting period of a year had a person not yet been cleared. This has been in effect since 2018. Mjøs Persen stated: "We want to end the anti-social waiting year. No one gets healed from being thrown out of a scheme".

Aftenposten revealed in June that the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority allowed a cabin company to not get fined for 800,000kr over dangerous working conditions in the work place. At the time, Persen expressed shock over the revelations. Three months later, she was open to a change in the law, however she didn't want to take said action immediately, and rather allow for new measures to be in effect for some time before reconsidering the labour law. The Red Party criticised the government for lack of action in the case. During July, Red Party MP Mímir Kristjánsson sent several questions to Persen as a follow up to the aforementioned Aftenposten revelations, but Persen ignored the last question entirely. When she received the questions, she asked the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority for inputs, while her ministry gave NRK a redacted version of the Authority's letter to Persen. She would later clarify that it wasn't natural for her to summarise all the companies that either might have or did break the law and that there was no need for company names in order to formulate policies. On 24 September, Persen made a list of companies who have broken the labour law public, which also listed the ones that the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority have fined since 2017. She did however note that one shouldn't consider all of those companies "criminals".

As the new minister of energy Persen faced a delicate problem. The wind farms of Storheia [no] (80 mills) and Roan [no] (71 mills) are situated within Fosen Reindeer District (Norwegian: Fosen reinbeitedistrikt), and they are built in spite of loud protests from the Sami People. A recent judgment in the Supreme Court ruled that the windmills are set up in violation of the rights of the indigenous people, thus illegally, and the license granted by the Ministry in 2013 was illegal.

Persen is a former member of the Red Electoral Alliance, and served as deputy chairman from 2003 to 2007, when the alliance merged to form the Red Party. She left the Red Party in 2008 after internal disagreements. She has been elected member of the city council in Bergen since 2003, first representing the Red Electoral Alliance, and from 2008 the Labour Party. In 2015 she was elected mayor in Bergen, and reelected in 2019.

Marte Mjøs Persen (born 24 April 1975) is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. She has served as minister of labour and social inclusion since 2022, and minister of petroleum and energy from 2021 to 2022. She served as the mayor of Bergen from 2015 until being elected to the Storting in 2021.

Persen was born in Bergen on 24 April 1975, a daughter of Svein Persen and Eli Hedvig Mjøs, and graduated with a bachelor degree from the University of Bergen. She lives with her partner, Nils-Olav Nøss and has four children, notably triplets and one adult son.