Norway's center-left heads to victory in general elections
Source: ABC News
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- The center-left bloc headed to a victory in Norway's elections Monday as official projections pointed to the governing Conservatives losing power after a campaign dominated by climate change and the future of the countrys oil and gas exploration industry.
With a projection based on a preliminary count of nearly 93% of the votes, the Labor Party and its two allies the Socialist Left and the euroskeptic Center Party would hold 100 seats in the 169-seat Stortinget assembly while the current government would get 68. One seat was still unsure.
As Norways largest party, Labor will try to form a coalition government and its chief, 61-year-old Jonas Gahr Stoere, is poised to become Norways next leader. The Scandinavian country is not a member of the European Union.
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Labor has promised an industrial policy that will funnel support to new green industries, like wind power, blue hydrogen that uses natural gas to produce an alternative fuel, and carbon capture and storage, which seeks to bury carbon dioxide under the ocean.
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Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Jonas Gahr Stoere with the Obamas.
madaboutharry
(40,207 posts)Music Man
(1,184 posts)And it appears that in the German elections, Olaf Scholz and the Social Democrats are poised to win in a couple weeks. It's at least theirs to lose.
Perhaps the pendulum is swinging back toward liberalism after years of a conservative trend in Europe (from center-right governments to the resurgence of ultra-right neo-Nazi movements).
burrowowl
(17,638 posts)IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)since we can see blatant difference in COVID responses/outcomes. Countries with conservative leadership have more COVID cases often spread around by their own supporters.