Olaug Vervik Bollestad (born 4 November 1961) is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Christian Democratic Party who is a member of Parliament for Rogaland since 2013.

[2] During her tenure, the Centre Party's Torill Idland served as deputy mayor from 2007 to 2011 and Labour's Frode Fjeldsbø from 2011 to 2013.

The Solberg favouring faction ended up winning the most votes at the party special convention on 2 November 2018.

Her only other liable opponent for the position, Dag Inge Ulstein, withdrew, thereby making Bollestad the presumptive new leader to succeed Kjell Ingolf Ropstad.

[15] Following the party's negotiations to enter the Solberg cabinet, she was appointed minister of agriculture and food on 22 January 2019.

[20] In November, following concerns expressed by Socialist Left's Arne Nævra that Norway also should kill minks like Denmark, Bollestad responded by saying that the situation was completely under control, and added that Norway had fewer minks then Denmark, also spread over farms in a different way.

[21] In December, after getting her hunting license, Bollestad visited the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers in Drøbak to mark their 150th anniversary.

[22] In January 2021, Bollestad reassured that there were sufficient amount of food and no shortage of it after hearing people continued to hoard shops.

She went on to add that people should rest assured that there are large storages of food, and that shops and pharmacies upheld their normal opening hours.

[29] In May 2022, she caused controversy when she proposed in an internal letter that the party's organisation should be centralised in order to become more appealing in future elections.

The Christian Democrats wants exports to stop until we have filled up the water reservoirs to a safe level.

On 14 August, media revealed that she had received a formal complaint from staffers in the party's parliamentary group regarding her leadership and behaviour.

Days prior, she allegedly also accused her deputy leaders and the party secretary of wanting to oust her, something the trio denied.

[34][35] The party held an internal extraordinary meeting on 22 August, and in the late hours of the same day, Bollestad announced that she would resign as leader.