Norway votes. Workers’ Party government retains power as the right shifts right

While yesterday’s election in Norway re -confirmed the Coalition of the Labor Party in power, the traditional right changed its place. Kim Wingerei How compared to Australia.

Norway, one of the oldest democracies in the world, votes every four years. Voting is not compulsory, but approximately 80% participate in each time and reflects high level voter participation.

The workers’ movement dominated the decades after the Second World War and established a social democracy that was not largely detected by a conservative party that wandered on the sides while it was largely difficult. To be fair, Norway is a boat kept constant by oil and gas discoveries that make the world’s richest small country.

However, for the last few decades, he saw that parties were disintegrated throughout the spectrum. In the 1950s and 1960s, Arbeiderpartieet, a Labor Party regularly voted 45% or more, (‘Høre’) peaked at 32% in the 1980s and always had to rely on the coalition of the central parties.

This year, the Labor Party ended from 2021 to 28.2%, but is still one of the worst results. The environment will be a coalition government with a large number of small parties that share more progressive views about the environment, taxation and the place of Norway in world affairs.

The rise of the ‘progresses’

Despite his tremendous reserve, isolate direction and small population, Norway was not immune to those who are in the rest of the world. The role of the country in climate change is very uncomfortable about burning very few fossil fuel, but it exports it to Europe in abundance and forms the world’s greatest ruling reserve fund.

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How to use this fund becomes more controversial, and the rich are still crying due to tax burdens and announces movements to some public opinion. Migration – as relatively modest as it is – it is no longer accepted as once – the opposite.

And here the rise and rise of the ‘Fremskrittspartiet’), known as the ‘other’ right -right – ironic progressive party. Effective and politically ruled by cunning Sylvi Listhaug, now Norway’s second largest party, 24% of the votes increased by 50% for the last time.

The ‘old’ right has fallen below 15%, the lowest share so far and a disaster result for former Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

Listhaug carried out a successful campaign with lower taxes, less migration and rejection of climate change. He is influenced by not being from the capital Oslo and therefore not being a member of the ‘organization’. There is any other comparison with Clive Palmer or Pauline Hanson.

What’s next?

A year ago, the Labor Party and Prime Minister Jonas Start were given a chance to win another period or a chance. Start managed to pass through some quite wavy waters and brought back to the cabinet of former and popular former prime minister and nato leader Jens Stoltenberg.

(Stoltenberg wide family is as close to any Norwegian family to Kennedys (without luggage), and counts among the ranks of old and current politicians and bureaucrats.)

On the other side, Solberg was confused because of the damage to her husband’s share trade. And Listhaughh took advantage of everything.

While his eyes are now arranged in 2029, his shadow seems great on conservatives everywhere, including fjords, but no Trump. Listhaugh does not arouse the same extreme nationalism of Marine Le Pen in France or Germany in Alice Weidel. Henrik Ibsen’s essence is much closer to Peer Gynt.

In Australia, most of the protest votes went to more progressive independent independent and extreme right in May. Protest votes in Norway mainly the ‘progressive’ right. LNP has a lot to learn from it; less luck.

And in the meantime, 99% of the votes were counted after 24 hours after the ballot box cabins were closed, and all seats were announced. Maybe AEC has something to learn too …

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