Norstat’s November poll conducted for news and Aftenposten shows that Høgre and Frp would make a big deal if there were an election today. For the first time since August 2013, the survey shows that the two parties would have received 89 of the mandates in the Storting. There are four more than they need to get a majority. – These are very pleasant numbers for us, says head coach Erna Solberg. – How much of the progress is due to Høgre doing well and how much is due to the government doing badly? – A bit of both, because it always is. But the voters probably have a memory that when I was in government we handled difficult situations perhaps a little differently than today’s government does, says Solberg. Weakest for Ap ever Only 18.2 percent of those asked in the survey say they would vote for the Labor Party if there were an election today. This is the weakest result for Labor in a survey conducted for news. news has polls that can be compared back to 2006. It is the fourth poll in a row where the Labor Party is under 20 percent support. Several of those who voted for the Labor Party at the election now say they will vote Høgre. Must make people understand – Why is the Labor Party doing so badly now? – It is difficult to say. The measurement shows that we have a big job to do to get people to understand what we actually work on, says deputy manager Bjørnar Skjæran. He thinks it will take time for people to get used to the fact that Norway is in a demanding economic situation and must tighten the budget. Deputy leader of the Labor Party Bjørnar Skjæran launched the government’s plans for sea-based farming at Lovund in Nordland today, but also had to comment on the poor opinion poll. Photo: Lars-Petter Kalkenberg / news Høgre stel from Ap If this poll had been the election result, more than 100,000 of those who said they voted for the Labor Party at the election, would have voted for Høgre. – Ap and Sp are almost half as big as Frp and H combined. What do Høgre and Frp do that they don’t? – You can ask others about that, replies Skjæran. The Center Party close to the barrier The Center Party gets support of 4.3 per cent, a decline of 1.9 per cent since the last poll. At the election, they received 13.5 percent of the vote. Now the party is dangerously close to the blocking limit of 4 per cent. The barrier limit is a minimum limit for how high a party’s support must be in order to be allocated seats in the Storting. – I think many people feel a sense of uneasiness now because of the times we live in and their finances. And the government must pay the price for that, says party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum. Support for Sp has not been so low since Trygve Slagsvold Vedum took over as leader from Liv Signe Navarsete in 2014. Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB Loyalty crisis Only 26 percent of those who said they would vote for the Center Party last election say they will vote for the party Today. The Center Party also loses the most voters to Høgre. – Is there something about the Center Party’s policy that causes voters to flee from the party? – People must choose for themselves. We do what we think is right to get us through these troubled times, says Vedum. Below the limit Both the Liberal Party, the Christian People’s Party and the Green Party come under the blocking limit. 3.4 percent say they would vote for Venstre, 3.6 percent would vote KrF and 3.7 percent say they would vote MDG.
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