The right-wing populist Progress Party surged to its best result in a national election, doubling its share of the vote to around 24 percent and relegating the Conservatives to being only the third-largest force in parliament. Conservative leader Erna Solberg said she took personal responsibility for her party\u2019s poor result. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The result means St\u00f8re will likely form a government with the support of four other left-wing parties. It comes after a closely fought campaign dominated by debates over the cost of living, wealth taxes, the future of Norway\u2019s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund and the country\u2019s relations with U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, St\u00f8re said that rising prices had been at the top of voters\u2019 minds, as well as foreign affairs issues such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.<\/p>\n
St\u00f8re has been prime minister of a minority center-left coalition government since the last election in\u00a02021.<\/p>\n
St\u00f8re\u2019s improvement in the polls this year is closely tied to the return to government of popular former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who became finance minister in February. Within days of his appointment, dubbed the \u201cStoltenback\u201d effect<\/a>, Labor surged 10 percentage points<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The right-wing populist Progress Party surged to its best result in a national election, doubling its share of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,33,35,140962,474,805,140963,12567,839,12,1115,5111,49,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-409484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-erna-solberg","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-foreign-policy","14":"tag-jens-stoltenberg","15":"tag-jonas-gahr-store","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-norway","19":"tag-parliament","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine","22":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115172361073531577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}