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lucrum · 09-15-2009, 08:32 AM

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.

09-15-2009, 08:32 AM	#5
lucrum Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Norway Posts: 209	Re: The Norwegian prime minister is elected 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.