Helge Solum Larsen was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party but resigned after he was accused of rape and the public prosecutor declined to pursue the case.
He was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party at the 2010 party convention. In February 2012, Solum Larsen resigned from all his party positions after a 17-year-old girl accused him of raping her at the Rogaland Liberal Party's annual congress in Suldal; he said that only consensual sex had occurred, and was briefly admitted to the psychiatric clinic at Stavanger University Hospital. In October the Rogaland public prosecutor declined to pursue the case. 
