Prime minister Erna Solberg says voters had given her ‘a mandate for four more years’ after estimations based on 95% of votes cast show narrow winNorway’s conservative prime minister, Erna Solberg, and her rightwing coalition government are set to hold on to power after defeating the centre-left opposition by the narrowest of margins, according to official projections. Estimates based on a partial count of about 95% of votes cast in Monday’s general election gave 89 seats in the Storting – Norway’s 169-seat parliament – to Solberg’s Conservatives, their populist, anti-immigration Progress party coalition partners and two smaller centre-right parliamentary allies. Solberg claimed a narrow victory, saying voters had given her “a mandate for four more years”. Støre, a 57-year-old millionaire who has previously served as the country’s foreign minister, conceded defeat and wished his rival well. Labour, which is predicted to lose six of its 55 seats, is still on course to remain the country’s single largest party.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2017 21:15 UTC