The Norwegian prime minister is elected

[lucrum]

Many of you will probably remember the norwegian politician that wrote a letter that was published on PC. This letter claimed that who's becoming PM in this country is preset, no matter what the outcome of the actual voting.

Now, I woke up today to the news of still having the same **** government as yesterday. The politician with the letter claimed norway would get Siv Jensen as new PM, but this didn't happen. We still have Jens Stoltenberg as PM.

So, was the anonymous politician making this up or did the PTB change the game in light of the information this very politician brought out. Hard to tell really, I guess it's up to every single individual to find out for themselves.

To me it makes absolutely no difference, as this country will continue to deteriorate now. I'm bracing for a country where the minority will become majority, with the current governments view on refugees.

Help the ones that need it, not the entire world...Norway ain't big enough for that...

[mu2143]

You forgot the S!!!

The Norwegian prime minister is selected

[TheObserver]

Was it a landslide or close call and did the results jive with pre-election surveys?
Perhaps the results are valid.

[Sibir]

I was just about to write the exact message, Lucrum! Unfortunately, we have the same PM! It was a very close race, but the sitting gouvernment won! Because of this, I don`t know if I have a job next year. This gouverment don`t want private companys! it`s a f**** communist state!

[lucrum]

The election was more of a landslide when it comes to the PM, than most expected as the winning party with Jens Stoltenberg won with 35.4% over the next party with Siv Jensen at 22.9% of the votes. I've seen a statement that the right wing actually got the slight majority in total over the different parties, but of some reason the left wing still got the overall majority. It's claimed that our northerenmost citizens votes counted more than everyone elses, tipping the scale to the left.

I do suspect however, the typical norwegian way of thinking: No change, known politics = safe politics, while change and new politics = scary politics.
I've heard several people defend their voting not by good arguements, but by what they feel is known and safe. We've had the same kind of government now for too many years with nothing good to show for it.

We had the worst showup for electionday since 1927, which shows that too many norwegian voters have given up on the system. Better leaving a blank vote than no vote in my opinion. Not voting at all is like bending over to the government.
We also had what I think is a serious prank, with a few top politicians helping to spread twitter, facebook and SMS messages that urged FRP(siv jensen) voters to do their election by SMS or come to the election booths the day after electionday.
Even though originally meant as a prank and probably did not change the outcome it probably still robbed a few people of their vote. I'd say this is a criminal offence in a free society, if we at all could call it by that term.

We'll see now what becomes of this country over the next 4 years, as the sitting government continue to nationalize everything.

[Stargazer1965]

Originally Posted by lucrum

The election was more of a landslide when it comes to the PM, than most expected as the winning party with Jens Stoltenberg won with 35.4% over the next party with Siv Jensen at 22.9% of the votes. I've seen a statement that the right wing actually got the slight majority in total over the different parties, but of some reason the left wing still got the overall majority. It's claimed that our northerenmost citizens votes counted more than everyone elses, tipping the scale to the left.

I do suspect however, the typical norwegian way of thinking: No change, known politics = safe politics, while change and new politics = scary politics.
I've heard several people defend their voting not by good arguements, but by what they feel is known and safe. We've had the same kind of government now for too many years with nothing good to show for it.

We had the worst showup for electionday since 1927, which shows that too many norwegian voters have given up on the system. Better leaving a blank vote than no vote in my opinion. Not voting at all is like bending over to the government.
We also had what I think is a serious prank, with a few top politicians helping to spread twitter, facebook and SMS messages that urged FRP(siv jensen) voters to do their election by SMS or come to the election booths the day after electionday.
Even though originally meant as a prank and probably did not change the outcome it probably still robbed a few people of their vote. I'd say this is a criminal offence in a free society, if we at all could call it by that term.

We'll see now what becomes of this country over the next 4 years, as the sitting government continue to nationalize everything.

Sounds like 2 wolves and sheep trying to decide what's for dinner......

[lucrum]

Well, last count of actual votes, revealed that the right wing got 49 000 more votes than the left wing. Still the left wing got majority of seats in the government because votes in the bigger counties in terms of area size, counts for more than the small ones. So because the big ones have more voters for the left wing than the smaller ones, we get a government that isn't truly elected by the people. Last election the right wing had 22 000 more votes, but didn't get majority back then either.

So, pretty much the same as good ol' U.S of A on that...we all remember how Bush got his spot in the first place.

[Ancient Alien]

To me it makes absolutely no difference, as this country will continue to deteriorate now. I'm bracing for a country where the minority will become majority, with the current governments view on refugees.

So, locrum, you votet for Siv Jensen?

I'll tell you one thing: Siv Jensen and the fascist wright wing would completely destroy our country and hand it over to the Bilderberg globalists!

A primary challenge facing both immigrants and Norwegian society more generally is immigrants' integration into the greater social, economic and political community. But I don't believe that these people are about to take over the country. There is still room for hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Norway on the condition that we proceed in a sensible way.

No, the sky is not falling, lucrum. But the right-wing has finally come of age in Norway, in as unmasked and unabashed fashion as you might have seen in Italy before 1920. All we're missing is actual uniforms, otherwise we now have a full blown Norwegian version of the Nazi Brown Shirts.