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Norway populist party quits coalition over 'Isis bride' repatriation
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 20, 2020 07:11pm |
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| Author | Jon Henley |
| News Date | Monday, January 20, 2020 02:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Norway’s anti-immigration Progress party has resigned from the ruling coalition over a cabinet decision to repatriate a woman suspected of belonging to Islamic State from Syria so one of her young children could receive medical treatment.
The departure of the populist, rightwing party means the prime minister, Erna Solberg, no longer has a parliamentary majority, but she said she would stay on at the head of a minority government with her two remaining coalition partners.
The Progress party leader and finance minister, Siv Jensen, told a press conference on Monday that there had been “too many compromises” and it had become too difficult to get her party’s policies adopted by the four-party government.
“I brought us into government, and I’m now bringing the party out,” Jensen said, adding that she nonetheless thought Solberg was the right person to be prime minister and she wanted to maintain a close dialogue with her in the future.
Solberg said the decision to help bring the unnamed 29-year-old woman – who denies allegations she was a member of the Islamist terror group – and her two children back to Norway so her five-year-old son could receive medical treatment was “correct”. |
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