Norway’s 2025 Election: FRP Surges, Labor Faces Challenges

Table of Contents

• 1 The long election campaign
• 2 – Difficult
• 3 Tops all the way
• 4 The fishing policy failed
• 5 – Big work to do
• 6 What specific⁣ policy adjustments or changes in communication strategy does the Finnmark Labour ​Party ‌plan to implement in response ⁢to the decline in poll numbers?

(iFinnmark): The largest government party swings from one bad poll to another, and a major restructuring is required if the Labor Party is to get enough air in its air to land in government offices. -again after next year’s general election.

– The mistake of the Labor Party is that it is the top that tells the people what to do. If the Labor Party had started by listening to us, more or less, what we think, things could have gone better. Sometimes you hear that they listen to us, and that may be true. But they still make choices that do not meet popular opinion. And then you can wonder how much they are really has listened, says Eivind Pettersen, a member of the Labor Party since the 1970s, a resident of Nervei and something said on behalf of his own party’s fishing policy.

Here is the recent survey for next year’s general election:

The long election campaign

We can run the jump signal with Eddie The Eagle a little further, and point out that the parties are now sitting on the edge, ready to throw themselves into the race, before the long election campaign before the general election and Sámi parliament election in 2025.

In the driver’s seat of today’s obstacle in Finnmark: the Progress Party.

In a recent Sentio study, commissioned by Amedia in Finnmark, it is the party with Bengt Rune Strifeldt and Terje Hansen that comes out the best, and has a good tail over the because jump.

The Progress Party is by far the largest party with 28.8 percent of the votes in the county.

In an equally clear second place is the Labor Party with 19.7 percent. It is these two parties that are running away with the three permanent orders, two for the Progressive Party and one for the Labor Party.

We also see from the survey that Patient Focus is in with 11.5 percent, but so they lose their only mandate to the Storting, if we use this poll as a basis.

– Difficult

The Center Party in Finnmark is also having difficult days. In our poll, they only get 4.7 percent of the vote.

– The people now have opinions, and we must take them seriously. It is difficult to be able to say anything about how we can turn things around here and get a mandate. says Geir Adelsten Iversen (SP).

Iversen is at the top of the list for the Center Party before the upcoming parliamentary elections, and is currently sitting in the Storting. He believes that the current government has achieved a lot of good, when it comes to transport and measures for children and young people, but he also admits that there are things that he would like to see done in a better way different.

– We may be penalized a bit for high fuel and electrification prices. I believe that the last one was a wrong decision, and we should work to change that, says Iversen, who is well aware that the Labor Party has a different opinion here .

– Sigurd may not agree with the latter, he says.

When it comes to fisheries policy, Iversen also believes there is a lot that should be done.

– We have done a lot for families with children with free kindergarten places, but in Hasvik there are not so many children. So maybe that measure works better in big cities. Writing down student loans is also a good measure, as well as free rides. But the most fundamental thing, which can be seen from the views of Hasvik and other fishing communities, is the redistribution of fish. Without fish, people have no work, he says.

Tops all the way

The Progress Party is at the top in almost every way in Sentio’s survey. It is not surprising, seen in light of recent developments, that they are stronger among people, and often among the youngest.

In the Alta region, perhaps the most important region in terms of vote numbers, the party gets about 30 percent of the basic material (28.8 percent in the survey) on which we sit, but also in the provinces towns on the coast, such as Båtsfjord, Berlevåg, Lebesby and Gamvik, will receive 29 percent of the votes.

In this last category, only about 10 percent want a Labor party in government after next year’s election.

The fishing policy failed

And it is in this region, called the East Coast, that we find Eivind Pettersen. The fisherman and “superintendent of the pier” on Nervei believes that the Labor Party has failed in its fishing policy.

– I have seen fishing committees set up locally without people who have fished at all. And the opening of the king crab fishery to fishermen from the west has been a disaster for us here in the east county, says Pettersen.

He also believes that there are too many similar ideas today among those who decide.

– You don’t choose to listen to those who have different opinions than you. This is how it works for me. But the ones you disagree with are probably just as valuable as the ones you do agree with. They are the ones that lead to development, says Pettersen.

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– Big work to do

The former mayor of Lebesby and the leader of the party at Finnmark Ap, Sigurd Kvammen Rafaelsen, says that they are not at all satisfied with today’s figures that are presented.

– We need to do a better job, define solutions and deliver a good policy for Finnmark. We are in a difficult time for business and people here, and there is a crisis in fishing and sanctions in trade with Russia. This is hitting us hard, and it is something we have to solve, says the party leader.

It highlights a number of measures aimed at individuals, as well as more money for local areas and county councils. Money for Kløfta and millions of ports for Vardø and Kjøllefjord are also on the list of measures identified by Rafaelsen.

– There are several good measures here as well, but you can still see that you are falling in the polls. Are you not good enough to “harvest” from the steps that are effective after all?

– We must continue to show that we have the best solutions for Finnmark. We need to talk about our politics and what we want mer for Finnmark. We will work harder for our citizens from the side of Finnmark Ap. We will take feedback from the voters seriously.

Sentio has interviewed 601 people aged 18 and over, living in the county of Finnmark.

The interviews were conducted in the period 18-20. November 2024.

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