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High voter turnout sends a message

Norwegians cast ballots in Monday's local elections at a rate not seen for 28 years. Early and absentee voting also set new records, illustrating...

Protest votes alter Norwegian politics

"The only answer is to be radical," declared a triumphant Lan Marie Nguyen Berg after her flourishing Greens Party trounced Norway's established parties not...

Latest polls show Greens in the lead

Several public opinion polls released less than a week before Monday's local elections in Norway show record-high voter support for the Greens Party (MDG/Miljøpartiet...

State urges foreign residents to vote

Monday's municipal and county elections in Norway are the only ones in which non-citizens can vote, as long as they have legal resident status....

Alta in mourning, campaign halted

All the political parties in Norway's northern city of Alta have halted their election campaigns following a helicopter crash during the weekend that killed...

Solberg wards off government crisis

Prime Minister Erna Solberg finally got her three government coalition partners to agree late Friday night on a new compromise for financing transport improvements....

Støre ‘ready’ to take over government

His Labour Party is falling in the polls and his personal popularity is low. Labour leader Jonas Gahr Støre has nonetheless confirmed that he...

Road tolls can cost the state dearly

Finance Minister Siv Jensen's Progress Party reignited the Norwegian government's internal battle over bompenger (road tolls) on Sunday. The ongoing battle is still threatening to...

Tempers rise over Greens’ ‘socialism’

Morning radio listeners got an earfull on Thursday, when the ever-provocative deputy leader of Norway's conservative Progress Party, Sylvi Listhaug, accused the Greens Party...

Voters reject both Progress, Liberals

Norwegian voters seem to be abandoning two of the parties that make up Norway's conservative government coalition, less than a month before important local...
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