The Conservative Party and the Progressive Party get a total of 83 seats in the Storting in the survey carried out by Norstat for news and Aftenposten. The Christian People’s Party and Venstre get two seats each, even though both end up below the threshold. Thus, the bourgeois parties have a total of 87 mandates. This is two more than they need to have a majority in the Storting. The Progress Party is up the most of all the parties compared to the previous Norstat poll, and gets 14.4 percent support. The Conservative Party is going backwards the most, but is still the country’s largest party. Both changes are within the margin of error of the measurement. Source: Norstat for news and Aftenposten Don’t need both Venstre and KrF Leader of the Progressive Party, Sylvi Listhaug, is not surprised by the new figures. She believes voters are frustrated by the lack of help from the government at a time when many have less to worry about. – The state is wealthy and makes more money than ever. Then I think people find it unreasonable that there is a massive confiscation of purchasing power, and then you claim that you cannot afford to help people. The FRP is up the most of all the parties compared to the previous Norstat poll, and gets 14.4 percent support. Photo: Ole Berg Rusten / NTB The Conservative Party and the Progressive Party do not need the support of both the Liberal Party and KrF to form a government, if the next election result is similar to the survey. This is good news, says Listhaug. – I think everyone in the Progressive Party sees that sitting in government with the Conservative Party worked well. It didn’t work as well with others. Erna Solberg is satisfied with leading the country’s largest party, which according to the survey is larger than the Labor Party and the Center Party combined. She believes that unrest over the world situation and the government’s policies are causing voters to turn towards the Conservative Party. – We feel that people are worried about the situation. But they are also concerned about some of the developments related to, for example, longer health care queues and having to cut measures within free choice of treatment. Deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Sveinung Rotevatn, is not satisfied with ending up below the blocking limit. He hopes that more voters will support his party in the weeks and months to come: – I hope that many voters see that this government is not working and that we need a change of government. But that we need a strong Liberal Party in such a collaboration to strengthen climate policy, have a liberal hand on the wheel and modernize the Norwegian economy. Deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Sveinung Rotevatn, cannot be happy about news’s recent party poll. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB The Labor Party will not receive a management supplement When the corona pandemic hit Norway in 2020, support for the largest governing party, the Right, increased by approximately 5 percent, an overview from pollsofpolls.no shows. Now Norway is once again in a serious situation, with fears of sabotage against Norwegian gas facilities and oil platforms. Nevertheless, the governing parties do not receive any management allowance. The Center Party is measured at 6.2 per cent in the new survey, while the Labor Party is measured at a modest 19.9 per cent. It is the third survey in a row where the Labor Party is below 20 percent. Deputy leader of the party, Bjørnar Skjæran admits that they have a job to do. – We are getting measurements now that are far below the level we want to be at. We will now present our first budget, which we have been working on for a long time. It will be a budget for ordinary people where we show that we prioritize standing up for ordinary people in this crisis as the very, very most important thing. – But do you think that the budget will be a voter magnet then? – It is through the budget that you show what you really want in politics, that is where the priorities emerge. And now it will be about safe governance and it will be about fair distribution – for us it is absolutely fundamental in the crisis we are in now. 4.3 percent answered in the survey that they would vote for something other than the nine Storting parties. If we remove the Democrats from this group, they make up 1.7 percent. The party receives no mandates in the Storting.
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Citizen majority even with Venstre and KrF under the blocking limit – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
