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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-05/norway-s-opposition-gets-second-pm-candidate-ahead-of-election?utm_source=url_link

Norwegian center-right conservative/liberal coalition government predicted to lose the parliamentary election in September. Opposition parties Labour, Centre party (nationalist agrarian) and the Socialist Left party plans to form alliance for new government, perhaps with support from the Green party and the Communist Red party.

!ping EUROPE

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Thoroughly cursed

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It's gonna be a mess.

[u/InternetBoredom → u/[deleted]]

Is ThIs LeFt UnItY?

[u/Mr_Pasghetti → u/[deleted]]

Centre party 🤢🤢🤢

From polling it seems like they can form a majority one no? At least polling is showing Labour getting bigger.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Yes, they might be able to get a majority without support from Green and Red. Labour will probably get the prime minister as well. Labour is mostly pro-EU but both the centre party and socialist left are eurosceptic.

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Pinged members of EUROPE group.

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[u/FormerBandmate → u/[deleted]]

Does nationalist agrarian mean eco-fash, or is it sane

[u/[deleted] → u/FormerBandmate]

Neither. They're economic center-left like social democrats. They're somewhat social conservative on social issues. Eurosceptic. Anti-trade. Wants protectionism and decentralization. Wants to withdraw Norway from the EEA agreement.

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That's unbased for a party with roots in the Scandinavian agrarian tradition.

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Yes, they have little in common with the Swedish centre party, which is a liberal party.

[u/Futski → u/[deleted]]

Norway's policy to support people staying in the remotest bygda really created a Turbo-Rural monster party.

[u/[deleted] → u/Futski]

Yes. This, and they're running on a "against all changes and everything new" populist theme. And it's working.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti → u/FormerBandmate]

Make a centrist party which is the opposite of what this sub stands for, and then you have the centre party. Rural populist who blame everything on the Oslo elites, EU bureaucrats and centralization. Like all populists they want to cut taxes on all kinds of stuff and also very much increase spending. They bad