Editing Kjell Magne Bondevik (section)

=== As Prime Minister=== 
[[File:President George W. Bush meets with Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of Norway in the Oval Office Friday, May 16, 2003.jpg|thumb|Bondevik with U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] in Washington, D.C., 16 May 2003]]
Bondevik's first term as prime minister lasted from 17 October 1997 to 3 March 2000, in a [[coalition]] [[first cabinet Bondevik|cabinet]] consisting of the Christian Democratic Party, the [[Centre Party (Norway)|Centre Party]] and the [[Venstre (Norway)|Liberal Party]].

While serving his first term as prime minister, Bondevik attracted international attention in August 1998 when he announced that he was suffering from [[clinical depression|depressive episode]], becoming the highest ranking world [[leadership|leader]] to admit to suffering from a mental illness while in office. Upon this revelation, [[Anne Enger]] became acting prime minister for three weeks, from 30 August to 23 September, while he recovered from the depressive episode. Bondevik then returned to office. Bondevik received thousands of supportive letters, and said that the experience had been positive overall, both for himself and because it made mental illness more publicly acceptable.<ref name=Jones2011Fighting>{{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Ben|last2=Bondevik|first2=Kjell Magne|title=Fighting stigma with openness|journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=December 2011|volume=89|issue=12|pages=862–863|doi=10.2471/BLT.11.041211|pmid=22271941|url=https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/12/11-041211/en/index.html|access-date=19 July 2013|pmc=3260893|archive-date=31 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031035031/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/12/11-041211/en/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[[BBC Newsnight]], 21 January 2008.</ref>

Bondevik's first cabinet resigned after losing a [[confidence vote]] in March 2000 as a result of a dispute over the construction of gas-fired power stations<ref>{{Cite web|title=NORWAY: Row over gas-fired power stations topples Government|url=https://www.edie.net/news/0/NORWAY-Row-over-gas-fired-power-stations-topples-Government/2426/|access-date=2020-06-05|website=edie.net|language=en|archive-date=2015-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923233528/http://www.edie.net/news/0/NORWAY-Row-over-gas-fired-power-stations-topples-Government/2426/|url-status=live}}</ref> and was replaced by a [[Labour Party (Norway)|Labour Party]] government led by [[Jens Stoltenberg]] until their defeat in the [[2001 Norwegian parliamentary election|2001 parliamentary election]]. Bondevik then formed his [[second cabinet Bondevik|second cabinet]], consisting of the [[Christian Democratic Party (Norway)|Christian Democratic Party]], the [[Conservative Party of Norway|Conservative Party]] and the [[Venstre (Norway)|Liberal Party]], which took office on 19 October 2001.{{cn|date=April 2024}}

The second Bondevik government carried out reforms and left a booming economy; however, Bondevik was defeated in the [[2005 Norwegian parliamentary election|2005 parliamentary election]], with 81 seats obtained for Bondevik's coalition and its supporters to the opposition [[Red-Green Coalition (Norway)|Red-Green Coalition]]'s 88.{{cn|date=April 2024}}

Bondevik announced his retirement from national-level politics at the end of his term as prime minister, and did not seek re-election for his seat in parliament.{{cn|date=April 2024}}