The cheers were loud at Høyre’s election vigil in September. For the first time in a hundred years, the Conservative Party became Norway’s largest party. But since then there has been a storm around the party. Shortly after the election, it became known that Conservative leader Erna Solberg’s husband had traded shares over 3,000 times while she was prime minister. Now Norstat’s latest survey for news and Aftenposten shows that the Conservative Party is falling back three percentage points compared to the survey in October. This gives the Right a support of 24.6 per cent. It is the weakest result for the Conservative Party in Norstat’s polls since December 2021, but still enough to retain its status as the country’s largest party. – We go back a lot, and it’s never pleasant. But at the same time, we are by far the country’s largest party, and historically we do a pretty good opinion poll, says deputy leader Henrik Asheim in the Conservative Party. The governing parties are falling It is not only the Conservative Party that is falling in the survey. So do the governing parties. The Labor Party only receives support from 20.2 percent of those surveyed in the survey. This is a decrease of 0.8 percentage points from the previous month. Deputy leader Tonje Brenna in the Labor Party believes her party must be clearer. Deputy leader Tonje Brenna in the Labor Party. Photo: Inger Kristine Lee / news – I think we need to be clearer about our political priorities. We simply have to be better at what we are very concerned about, namely that people should be able to live good lives all over the country, she says. The Center Party goes back one percentage point to a support of 5.6 percent. In comparison, the party was measured at over 20 per cent in the surveys as recently as January 2021. All the changes are within the margin of error in the survey. In front of SV and Frp, the SV and the Progress Party are leading the most in the survey. With a growth of 1.9 percentage points, SV breaks the threshold for double-digit support and receives support from 10.6 per cent of those surveyed. In Norstat’s polls for news and Aftenposten, we have to go back to February last year to find the last time SV recorded a support of more than 10 per cent. The Progress Party also strengthens to 12.9 percent. This is a growth of 1.3 percentage points since October. The Progress Party rises to 12.9 percent in the survey, and deputy leader Hans Andreas Limi (Frp) believes the party is on the right track. Photo: Lars Thomas Nordby / NTB – There is progress in relation to the election results, so we are on the right track. But it is clear that our political ambitions are greater than that, says deputy leader Hans Andreas Limi in the FRP. – I think what we see in this survey is an expression that voters have lost a little trust in the parties that have had a lot of trouble. The government parties with competence and stock trading, and the same has also affected the Conservative Party, he says. The integrity cases Conservative Party leader and former Prime Minister Erna Solberg and several ministers in the Støre government have admitted to breach of integrity during the summer and autumn. On Friday, Solberg will learn whether Økokrim is launching an investigation into the share transactions that her husband Sindre Finnes carried out while the couple lived in the Prime Minister’s residence behind the Palace. On Tuesday 7 November, there will also be a hearing on the competency cases in the Storting. Solberg and several current and former ministers will appear in the hearing.
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