Norway Polls

[Antonio the Sixth]

Really ? It's surprising indeed to see a far-right party sinking in the polls, by these times...

[Antonio the Sixth]

Interesting... It also seems Hoyre is back as the main right-wing party and is even tied with Labour.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Thank you Teddy, that explains it. Very kind of you to find those links.

So FrP is sinking like rocks, Høyre doing really well, the Red-Greens are on decline. Very promising trends. Just a pity there isn't another general election for two years, so both Jensen and Stoltenberg has time to recover.

Indeed, fortunately.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, the Norwegian Labour is in power since 2005 and has been confirmed in power in 2009, so it's probably not that marginalized.

[Antonio the Sixth]

You certainly know scandinavian politics better than me, so I won't contradict you. But aren't you a bit quick in saying social democracy is lost in scandinavia ? Sure, the SAP has seen its worst score since almost one century and will be out of power for a record number of years. Sure, the Norwegian Labour isn't as strong as it used to be, and even with the Centre's support it has only a razor-thin majority. Still, both parties stand a fair chance to remain governing parties (even if not as hegemonic as before). Some polls give the red-green coalition ahead, in both countries (even if some other don't). At some point between 2006 and 2010, the SAP has polled as high as 45% ! For what it's worth, Danish social-democrats should also most likely come back to power this year.

Things seem far brighter to me for the scandinavian left than for the British, Italian or even French ones (let's not even talk about the SPD ).

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, I see. In some way, the scandinavian politics are starting to align with other countries, with weaker social-democrats, an ideological identity crisis and a surge of the ecologist or radical left parties.