 Following the right-winged Second cabinet Bondevik victory in the 2001 parliamentary election, Minister of Transport, Torild Skogsholm from the Liberal Party announced that the government would make all subsidized passenger trains services in the country subject to public service obligation (PSO).This had previously been done in several other European countries, such as Sweden and Germany.The initial plans launched in 2002 called for three routes to be subject to PSO