Immigration Islam in Norway Norway

Norway: Hopefully a different direction in immigration after recent election results…….


Which means at the most, a slight stop gap measure against Islamization…

What eight years of right-wing rule will mean for foreigners in Norway

What eight years of right-wing rule will mean for foreigners in Norway

Following victory in Norway’s September 11th general election, Norway’s Conservative party and it’s populist coalition partner the Progress Party have another four years to set the political agenda in the oil-rich welfare state.

With a chant of “four more years”, Erna Solberg’s Conservative (Høyre) party and the nationalist Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) coalition saw off the Labour challenge in Norway’s legislative elections on August 11th.

 

Solberg will continue in the role of prime minister with a new four-year term of office, albeit with a weaker mandate.

 

The electoral campaign was largely based on a referendum on taxes, energy and immigration policy.

 

On the contentious issue of immigration and integration, the Conservatives ran a straightforward campaign but they did come under fire for some of the attention-seeking, anti-immigrant antics of Sylvi Listhaug, the Progress Party Minister for Integration and Immigration.

 

Listhaug was widely criticized for pulling an emotive pre-election publicity stunt by visiting the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby in Sweden, ostensibly to highlight problems of criminality in what she has claimed is one of “60 no-go zones” in Sweden.

 

While she denied this was her intention, rightly or wrongly it was clearly designed as a warning to Norwegian voters on the dangers posed by uncontrolled immigration. Pre-election opinion polls had shown that 20 percent of voters felt that immigration and asylum issues were an important electoral issue.

 

However, while the Progress Party proclaims itself as an anti-immigration party, it is a party that is less authoritarian and nationalistic than some of its more extreme European populist counterparts. According to the late Frank Aarebrot, professor of comparative politics, “The Progress Party cannot be compared to the Front National in France or the Danish People’s Party or German neo-Nazi groups”.

 

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