Tag: elections

Small party holds big new wildcard

NEWS ANALYSIS: Another small political party has suddenly emerged this week as the joker on the non-socialist side of the government drama heading into...

Stoltenberg fires up the troops

Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg remains a popular prime minister in Norway, but his party has been lagging in the polls and his coalition...

Politicians gather in rites of spring

NEWS ANALYSIS: The spring season of political party gatherings continues this weekend as Labour delegates meet in Oslo, following similar meetings of smaller parties...

Progress Party toasts progress

Norway's most conservative party was literally celebrating its progress as it marked its 40th anniversary this week. Siv Jensen and the Progress Party she...

Center Party keen to close borders

Norway's rural-oriented Center Party (Senterpartiet, Sp) shocked even its sister party in Sweden over the weekend when it voted to promote withdrawal from the...

Tiny party in the spotlight again

NEWS ANALYSIS: More than 90 percent of Norwegian voters don't support Liv Signe Navarsete's small, rural-oriented Center Party (Senterpartiet, Sp), yet its top politicians...

Høyre backs big fortune tax cuts

With the campaign well underway towards national elections later this year, Norway's leading opposition party Høyre (The  Conservatives Party) has proposed making large cuts...

Olympic vote ‘discriminatory’

Residents of Oslo are due to vote over whether their city should apply to host the Winter Olympics (OL) in 2022, but officials at...

Høyre hits new heights in new poll

Never before has Norway's Conservative Party (Høyre) had so much support in a public opinion poll or an election: The party held 40.1 percent...

Solberg wins nod over Stoltenberg

Few Norwegians need a Christmas holiday to revive and cheer them up more than Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, after one of the most challenging...
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