article_snippet: Thorbjoern Jagland, a former Norwegian prime minister of the Labour Party, has been demoted as chairman of the committee .
article_snippet: Thorbjoern Jagland, a former Norwegian prime minister of the Labour Partythe Labour Party, has chaired the five-member panel since 2009 but was ousted after his right-wing opponents won a majority on the five-member panel.
article_snippet: Kaci Kullmann Five, a former leader of Norway's ruling .
article_snippet: Thorbjoern Jagland has been a good leader for six . years.
article_snippet: Jagland, who was prime minister from 1996.
article_snippet: Thorbjoern Jagland had attracted criticism after overseeing a number of controversial of awards, including ones made to Barack Obama in 2009 - less than a year after the U.S. president took office - to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010 and to the European Union in 2012.
article_snippet: Asle Sveen, a historian and Nobel expert, . said of Thorbjoern Jagland's demotion: 'I don't like it.'
article_snippet: Thorbjoern Jagland is also head of the 47-nation Council of Europe, . which promotes democracy in Europe, and some right-wing .
article_snippet: Thorbjoern Jagland had attracted criticism after Barack Obama triumphed in 2009, less than a year after the U.S. president took office .
highlights_snippet: Labour Party's Thorbjoern Jagland ousted as chairman of the committee .
  