FILE PHOTO: Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg speaks during India-Norway Business Conference in New Delhi, India, January 7, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
January 17, 2019
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s minority center-right government has struck a deal with the small Christian Democratic Party to form a four-party majority coalition, it said on Thursday, confirming earlier reports.
The agreement fulfils a long-standing goal of Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg, in power since 2013, who hopes ruling in a majority will provide stability and help ease her path to re-election in 2021.
Recent opinion polls have shown a majority of voters backing the Labour-led center-left opposition.
(Reporting by Camilla Knudsen and Alister Doyle, editing by Terje Solsvik)
