The Social Democratic Workers’ Party of the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre clearly won the parliamentary election in Norway. She achieved 28 percent on Monday, according to the first counted, in advance, in 2021 it was 26 percent. So that Støre can continue to rule, he is dependent on the support of several parties from the left warehouse in parliament. This must receive the majority of the 169 seats in the storting. A narrow majority of around 88 seats emerged here early Monday evening; A majority 85 are required. At that time, around 72 percent of the votes were counted.
With the help of the former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who has returned to the government, Støre had gained great encouragement in recent months against the background of great international imponderables. His alliance with the Center Party, which was broken in January, had been very unpopular in Norway; In December, Støre’s workers’ party was only 18 percent in surveys.
Right -wing populists with clear votes
The big winner of the election in Norway is the right -wing populist progress party FRP led by Sylvi Listhaug. According to the electoral authority, she achieved her historically best result with around 24 percent. In 2021 she received twelve percent. The progress party has existed in Norway since the 1970s, and for a long time it campaigned primarily with an anti -migration course, but in the election campaign it now occurred primarily for a drastic reduction in bureaucracy and reducing taxes. But the FRP occurs more moderate than the AfD and also supports the Ukraine aid Oslos. In recent years she had become the central opposition party in the storting.
Accordingly, the previous opposition leader, the conservative Høyre party. She was expected to fell to only around 14 percent of the votes, and in 2020 it had received around 20 percent of the vote. The Høyre boss, Norway’s former Prime Minister Erna Solberg, was obviously unable to present herself as a credible alternative for Støre. Solberg had run a government from Høyre and Progress Party until 2021. According to the temporarily counted voices, the bourgeois camp, which includes other smaller parties, cannot achieve a majority.
There had been resistance from the other bourgeois parties against FRP boss Sylvie Listhaug; In the event of an election victory of the bourgeois camp for Solberg, most had spoken out as Prime Minister. Shortly before the election, only around 20 percent of the respondents had stated that they preferred the FRP leader as a possible new prime minister; Around 25 percent had spoken out for Solberg, around 50 percent Støre.
It is now expected in Oslo that Støre advertises an alliance in the left camp of the parliament. The correct way of dealing with Israel is likely to be a dispute, the further reduction of oil and gas, which the Greens rejected by Støre; In addition, there are tensions between the parties of the left warehouse when it comes to future relationships with the EU. If an alliance does not come about, Støre could again form a minority government that is supported by parties in the left warehouse.
