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Norway's Stoltenberg set to stay in power
Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:15pm EDT
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By Wojciech Moskwa and Terje Solsvik
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's center-left coalition was set to retain power on Tuesday after a tight election showed voters credited him with steering the major oil-producer through the global downturn.
With 99 percent of votes counted from Monday's poll, his coalition was on course to keep a slim majority in parliament over the center-right, which had tried to woo voters with promises of tax cuts and less state involvement in the economy.
Stoltenberg's coalition had 86 seats in the 169-seat parliament, putting it in line to be the first government to be re-elected in 16 years.
While striking a cautious note about the results as there remained a faint possibility of some seats turning on a handful of votes, Stoltenberg said on television: "We have campaigned and we have won the election.
"It looks like the red-green government can stay in power."
The government is set to decide whether the North Sea country opens new Arctic areas for oil and gas exploration, whether it taps its $400 billion offshore wealth fund and possibly whether it opens a fresh debate on joining the EU.
Norway has survived the global downturn better than its Nordic peers.
Stoltenberg has injected more oil money into the economy and offered relief to banks. With unemployment at 3 percent and the economy set to resume growth in 2010, many see the Labour Party leader's coalition as a safe pair of hands.
He is set to lead his third government this decade. No government has been voted back in since 1993, not long before the country set up the wealth fund to invest oil and gas revenues abroad, instead of pumping them into the local economy.
The fund, worth $80,000 per citizen, stokes expectations for quick improvements in the standard and scope of public services, which in turn has led to a series of one-term cabinets.
Non-OPEC member Norway is the world's fifth-biggest crude exporter and Western Europe's biggest natural gas exporter. However the powerful oil and gas lobby has said the future of the industry in the country hinges on gaining access to new Arctic areas to replenish dwindling North Sea resources.
Labor SUCCESS
At a rally jubilant Stoltenberg supporters shouted "Four more years" as he thanked them for helping Labour to its best result in 16 years.
Labour was backed by more than 35 percent of voters and increased its ballot for a second successive election. This marked the first time in more than 50 years it had done this.
The result paves the way for more major government initiatives and relative restraint in using the country's vast oil windfall to plug budget holes. Continued...
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