Copenhagen: Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg She will step down as the head of a three-party, minority centre-right government on Tuesday after the left-leaning bloc won last month’s parliamentary election.
leader of Norwaylabor party, Jonas Gahr Stores, is expected to take charge at the end of this week.
Solberg, 60, head of Norway’s Conservative Party, was ousted after two four-year terms after his party lost nine seats in the country’s September 13 election.
She will remain as a caretaker leader until Gehar Storey presents a new operations team Thursday for the two-party, centre-left coalition.
“Eight years is a long time,” Solberg told reporters after submitting his resignation to the country’s premier monarch, the King Harald, as required by the constitution.
“He accepted it and I urged him to ask Jonas Gahr Storey to form the government.”
In Norway, an outgoing prime minister only announces his departure when another party leader is ready to form a new cabinet.
In 2013, Solberg became Norway’s second female prime minister. He first led a two-party minority government with anti-immigration Pragati Party. It was extended twice – first in 2018 with the Liberal Party and a year later with the smaller Christian Democratic Party and then formed a majority government.
However, in January 2020, the populist Progress Party pulled out of the coalition, leaving Solberg to lead a three-party, minority government with its conservative, centrist Liberal Party and Christian Democrats.
Gehr Stoere, 61, is set to lead a government with Norway’s third-largest Euroskeptic Center party, which is expected to win a majority in the 169-seat Stortinget.
He is expected to outline the political platform of the alliance on Wednesday and the cabinet the next day.
The discovery of oil and gas in the waters of Norway in the 1960s made the Scandinavian nation one of the richest countries in the world, with a strong welfare system and a high standard of living.
It is not a member of the European Union, but trades closely with the 27-nation bloc.
Norway’s oil wealth helped it cope with Europe’s financial crisis and maintain low unemployment.
The oil industry is the largest industry in the country, accounting for over 40% of exports and directly employing more than 5% of the workforce.
leader of Norwaylabor party, Jonas Gahr Stores, is expected to take charge at the end of this week.
Solberg, 60, head of Norway’s Conservative Party, was ousted after two four-year terms after his party lost nine seats in the country’s September 13 election.
She will remain as a caretaker leader until Gehar Storey presents a new operations team Thursday for the two-party, centre-left coalition.
“Eight years is a long time,” Solberg told reporters after submitting his resignation to the country’s premier monarch, the King Harald, as required by the constitution.
“He accepted it and I urged him to ask Jonas Gahr Storey to form the government.”
In Norway, an outgoing prime minister only announces his departure when another party leader is ready to form a new cabinet.
In 2013, Solberg became Norway’s second female prime minister. He first led a two-party minority government with anti-immigration Pragati Party. It was extended twice – first in 2018 with the Liberal Party and a year later with the smaller Christian Democratic Party and then formed a majority government.
However, in January 2020, the populist Progress Party pulled out of the coalition, leaving Solberg to lead a three-party, minority government with its conservative, centrist Liberal Party and Christian Democrats.
Gehr Stoere, 61, is set to lead a government with Norway’s third-largest Euroskeptic Center party, which is expected to win a majority in the 169-seat Stortinget.
He is expected to outline the political platform of the alliance on Wednesday and the cabinet the next day.
The discovery of oil and gas in the waters of Norway in the 1960s made the Scandinavian nation one of the richest countries in the world, with a strong welfare system and a high standard of living.
It is not a member of the European Union, but trades closely with the 27-nation bloc.
Norway’s oil wealth helped it cope with Europe’s financial crisis and maintain low unemployment.
The oil industry is the largest industry in the country, accounting for over 40% of exports and directly employing more than 5% of the workforce.
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