The work won the 2nd mandate during the election of Norway while the populist right makes gains

The government of the minority Labor Party of Norway won a second mandate in power on Monday, while populist law obtained its best result, showed that official leaders showed, during an election dominated by concerns concerning the increase in life costs and wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

The work of outgoing Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and four small left parts won 87 seats, above the 85 necessary for the majority, with 99% of the counted voting bulletins.

Støre, 65, will remain strongly dependent on its small allies to adopt major legislation such as budgetary budgets. To obtain their support, he will probably face difficult discussions on issues such as tax increases for rich oil and future exploration and divests from Israeli companies by an American sovereign wealth fund of $ 2 billion.

“Støre will continue as Prime Minister, but with a much more difficult parliamentary situation, in which he depends on five parties to govern,” Jonas Stein, associate professor in political science at the University of Tromsoe, told Reuters.

Despite the victory of the left, Monday’s ballot showed a quarter of work to the right among the conservative voters, with the populist and the anti-immigration party of Sylvi Listhaug, 47, making his best performance in an election.

Progress has obtained 48 seats in the Parliament of 169 places, more than double of its allocation four years ago, because the promise of the party of strong tax reductions seemed to have resonated with many voters.

Listhaug, who quotes Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher as role models, campaigned on what she said that public spending is wasting in fields such as international aid and green energy subsidies.

A “more right” youth vote?

“Today’s young people are much more right than earlier. I think that the Progress Party won a large part of the vote of young people, especially among young men,” said Eirik Loekke, member of Civitas, a liberal thinking group based in Oslo.

None of the right -wing parts that won seats, including the conservatives of former Prime Minister Erna Solberg, asked for the support of US President Donald Trump, unlike some of their counterparts elsewhere in Europe.

Støre welcomed the results, playing any change to the right. “It is a signal for the outside of Norway that social democracy can also win despite a right wave,” he told a jubilant crowd of labor supporters who chanted “four more years”.

The concerns of voters concerning the conflict in Ukraine and an aggressive Russia, which shares a border with Norway in the Arctic, have given a boost to the left in recent months after the former secretary general of NATO, Jens, Stoltenberg, 66, joined the Cabinet of Støre.

Many Norwegians have considered the decision to be a safeguard in the event of a new armed conflict, given the mandate of Stoltenberg for a decade – until October of last year – as head of the Western military alliance.

According to a survey by the Peace Research Institute, 59%of Norwegians think that a new war in Europe is probably in the next decade, against 55%, against 55%.

The war in Gaza also had an impact on the election

The war in Gaza, the smallest allies of Støre, also calls for the largest allies of Støre, with the smallest allies of Støre calling the Norwegian sovereign fund, the largest and the greatest source of wealth in the country, to decide more about Israeli companies.

Since June 30, the fund has been deactivated by more than two dozen Israeli companies, following the media reports according to which it had built a participation in a reaction engine company which ensures the maintenance of Israeli fighter planes.

Certain left parties have wondered if the country actually contributes to violations of international law by investing in companies active in occupied Palestinian territories. Israel denies having thwarted international rules.

The election is also at stake in the future elections of the petroleum industry in Norway, which replaced Gazprom as the best European gas supplier after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 by Russia.

The role of Norway should develop further while the European Union plans to eliminate the use of Russian gas by 2027, but some of the Junior Allies of Støre gradually wish to eliminate oil exploration, which could limit the new fields of gas.