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A changing of the guard at the highest level of Norwegian politics was forecasted following the closing of voting stations for the Parliamentary Election on Monday. Nearly all left-wing parties saw a surge in their vote
The opposition coalition led by the Labor Party look set to win 88 in the 169-seat Storting (parliament), according to the projection published by the Norwegian Directorate of Elections based on a count of 90 percent of the votes.
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The prediction would mean Erna Solberg, leader of the Conservative Party and the ruling bourgeois coalition, would have to step down as prime minister after an eight-year tenure.
According to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, Solberg has called Labor Party's Jonas Gahr Store and congratulated him on the victory.
The forecast showed a significant decline for the bourgeois bloc, which only stands to get 64 seats.
According to another forecast on Norwegian news channel TV2, Store will form a majority government together with the Socialist Left Party and the Central Party. The Marxist Red Party increased their representatives from 1 to 8, effectively doubling their vote share.
Norway holds the parliamentary election every four years.
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