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NORWAY: Norway: the Conservatives claim a "historic victory" legislative

 

Conservative Erna Solberg, claimed a "historic election victory" after the legislative elections held Monday, September 9. They should give the present a sharp contrast majority in Parliament against the outgoing center-left coalition.

"Today, the voters gave their votes with an historic election victory parties bourgeois", a term which refers to the right parties and law center, said , the leader of the Norwegian right in front of his supporters.

According to official projections, the conservative opposition and its potential allies will control 97 of 169 seats in parliament. 

The same morning, a recent survey confirmed an observed throughout the country by crediting the opposition right 54.3% of the vote trend, a comfortable majority of 95 cen , management of 169 in Parliament, against only 39% to the left.

Outgoing Prime Minister admits defeat

At the helm since 2005, a coalition of the Labour Party, the Socialist Left and the Centre Party, the outgoing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has conceded defeat and announced that he would present his resignation the next few months for a new parliamentary majority is ready. "According to the Norwegian parliamentary tradition, I will resign my government after the budget presentation on October 14, when it is clear that there is a basis for a parliamentary new government, "he told his supporters.

The left is the victim of wear to even Norway, rich in oil, displays an exceptional economic prosperity in Europe with virtually no unemployment and levels of life trè , s high. It also suffers from the failure of authorities appeared during attacks right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik who killed 77 people July 22, 2011 by a bomb near the headquarters Government in Oslo and then opened fire on a gathering of Young Labour on the island of Utoya.

To an alliance with a populist anti-immigration party

Ironically, the victory of the right should lead for the first time in its 40 year history, the coming to power of the Progress Party (FrP), a hostile populist training immigration and that Breivik was a member until 2006. The FrP clearly stood out from the killer and muted his remarks on immigrants. Nobody in Norway today combines the carnage Breivik, noticeably absent from the campaign focused on the theme of health, education, taxation and use of the vast oil wealth.

If they are in agreement in alternation, the four right-wing parties have not yet agreed on the outlines of a new government or a specific program, which depend on their respective weights at the end of polls. The scenario considered most likely is a minority government comprising the Conservatives and the Progress Party, with the support - without participation - two small centrist parties, the Christian Democrats and the liberal eral.

The differences between them are very important, especially on issues of immigration, the environment or the use of oil funds, a huge sovereign wealth fund weighing about 750 billion dollars in which populists want to draw to fund their promises.

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