Norway election winners start coalition talks with climate focus

Centre-left opposition parties enter discussions a day after they beat the incumbent Conservatives.

Norway’s centre-left opposition parties are starting coalition talks to try to form a majority government after winning a decisive parliamentary election victory, with climate change expected to be central in discussions. Labour leader Jonas Gahr Stoere must address voters’ concerns over global warming and a widening wealth gap while ensuring any transition away from oil production – and the jobs it creates – is gradual. Stoere’s goal is to convince both the rural-based Centre Party and the mostly urban Socialist Left to join him, which would give his cabinet 89 seats, four more than what is needed for a majority in the 169-seat assembly.