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Norway government to rule in minority after centrists abandon talks
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 27, 2017 08:45pm |
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| Author | Reuters Staff |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OSLO (Reuters) - Norway’s Christian Democratic party withdrew from coalition talks with the government on Wednesday, ending Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s hopes of broadening her minority right-wing cabinet into a center-right majority one.
The move may make it more difficult for Solberg to secure backing for her fiscal spending plans and policy proposals, and could even jeopardize her cabinet’s long-term survival.
Solberg has ruled in a minority government since 2013 with the populist Progress Party. She had hoped to bring the two parties’ other backers in parliament, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, into her cabinet after the four parties combined won a renewed but smaller majority on Sept. 11.
While Solberg had needed the support of just one of the two centrist parties previously to push through her policies, she now needs the backing of both in addition to that of her own Conservatives and the Progress Party.
But the Christian Democrats, wary of supporting further tax cuts and the government’s tough line on immigration, said it would stay out of government even though it preferred Solberg as prime minister over Labour leader Jonas Gahr Stoere.
Solberg had previously rejected a proposal from the Liberals and the Christian Democrats to remove Progress from the government in favor of the centrists. |
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