Nail-Biter Brewing in Norway Election as Labor Party Stumbles
- Recent poll shows Labor Party support lowest since 2013
- Government rising in poll as economy recovers from oil crash
Norway's prime minister Erna Solberg.
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The decline in support for Norway’s largest party is turning next month’s parliamentary election into a tight race that could see smaller and more extremist factions emerge as kingmakers.
Opposition Labor -- Norway’s biggest political party since 1927 -- is polling at 27.1 percent, the lowest since 2013, according to an NRK Norstat poll. If that level is confirmed in the Sept. 11 vote, it would be its worst result since 2001, jeopardizing its ability to form a workable majority with its traditional center-left allies.