Norway Green Party Rise Shows Oil Economy Losing Support
- Ruling Conservatives risk losing power in two largest cities
- Opposition Labor cements status as Norway's largest party
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Norway’s Green Party, which wants to halt oil production, emerged as a winner in municipal elections, building on support that has helped shape investment guidelines for the nation’s massive wealth fund.
With ideas such as converting whole streets into bicycle lanes and raising tolls on cars in Oslo, the party’s backing rose to 4.2 percent nationwide in local elections on Monday, up from 2.8 percent in the 2013 general election, according to official projections with 99.8 percent of the votes counted. It won the third most votes in Oslo, making it a king-maker in the capital.