Tag: politics

Pressure grows on Solberg to resign

Erna Solberg still had support from the board of Norway's Conservative Party as the week began, but faces rising pressure to resign both as...

Erna’s husband lands her in trouble

Norway's Conservative Party triumphed in local elections this week, but its leader and former prime minister was all but reduced to tears on Friday....

Norway’s unpopular leaders hang on

NEWS ANALYSIS: Speculation has swirled this week over whether Norway's unpopular left-center government will collapse. Both the Labour- and Center parties lost badly in...

Støre’s Labour Party ‘in crisis’

Disappointed Labour Party politicians around Norway were calling new local election results "catastrophic" on Tuesday, and claiming that their once-mighty party is in crisis....

Voter turnout declined in local elections

More than 2.6 million Norwegian residents cast ballots in their local government elections around the country. That put voter turnout at 62.2 percent of...

Non-socialists sweep Norway’s local elections

A new conservative wave crashed over Norway in local elections on Monday, resulting in bitter defeats for Labour- and Center Party incumbents. Former Prime...

Criminals infiltrate party lists

Nearly 500 of the candidates seeking voter confidence in Norway's municipal elections this year have criminal records, reports newspaper Aftenposten. A dozen of them...

Voting marred by missing ballots

Norwegians were streaming to voting sites all over the country on Monday, to vote for who should lead their local governments for the next...

Questions still swirl around Norway’s embattled foreign minister

Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt remained under a cloud of suspicion heading into the weekend, even after Norway's economic crimes unit opted against launching...

Traditional school elections took a turn to the right

Results of this week's national mock elections at schools around Norway showed another sharp decline for the incumbent Labour- and Center parties and major...
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