Center-Right Coalition Takes Lead in Norwegian Elections
Labor-led current government on the outs
A partial count of Monday's parliamentary election indicates a center-right coalition led by the Conservative Party will take power in Norway for the first time since 2005, ousting the current Labor-led government.
The forecast by Statistics Norway, based on a quarter of the vote, indicates Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg will become the new prime minister of the oil-rich Nordic country, replacing Jens Stoltenberg of the Labor Party.
The Conservative Party has seen a surge in support amid pledges to increase the availability of private health care and cut taxes on assets over $140,000.
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Availability of privat health care here means the public health care system paying private services to take in patients as a way to get the increasing health care lines down. Talking about real privatization will get you stares and talkabout American conditions where the poor die in the streets as the rich adjust ther monocles.