Tuesday takes thousands to the streets to demonstrate against the high electricity prices. At the same time, the governing parties are getting another crisis measurement in their lap. The online newspaper’s February poll from Sentio, shows that both parties continue the decline.
The Center Party now falls to a record low of 7.9 percent (-1.3).
– The party has almost halved since the election. This is the weakest support since November 2016, says CEO Arve Østgaard in Sentio to Nettavisen.
The Labor Party gets a result of 21.9 percent (-0.4), which is over four percentage points lower than the parliamentary election result.
The online newspaper’s February survey
- Labor Party: 21.9 (-0.4)
- Right: 24.9 (-0.6)
- Progress Party: 11.4 (-0.6)
- Center Party: 7.9 (-1.3)
- SV: 10.6 (+1.5)
- Left: 4.9 (+0.8)
- Red: 8.1 (+2.3)
- MDG: 3,3 (-0,5)
- KrF: 3.1 (-2.0).
Source: Sentio
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See the results for all the parties, including the parties that are not represented in the Storting, further down in the case.
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– People are impatient
The Center Party’s result is in stark contrast to the polls before the election, when the party sniffed in the 20s.
– We aim to be higher in support than this. After eight years with Erna Solberg and centralization, we understand that people are impatient, says the Center Party’s parliamentary deputy leader, Geir Pollestad, to Nettavisen.
However, Pollestad believes that the arrows will turn when people see the results of the government’s policy.
– We are in the process of turning politics in a direction that sees the whole of Norway and reduces social and geographical differences. I believe that more voters will show us confidence when all the measures the government has initiated begin to show more results, he says.
Two big winners
The poll’s two victors, who steal the most voters from the government parties, are SV leader Audun Lysbakken and Rødt leader Bjørnar Moxnes.
Red gets a support of 8.1 percent, which is a full 2.3 percentage points from January. While SV advances 1.5 percentage points, and passes the 10s – by 10.6 percent.
– This is the highest support we have measured for Rødt since we started with measurements in October 1997, says Østgaard.
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Moxnes: – That’s why we are growing
If the poll had been the election result, Labor leader and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre would have been dependent on support from Rødt to get a majority.
The government parties and the support party SV get a total of 75 seats, and are far from a majority (85 is a majority). This naturally makes Red leader Bjørnar Moxnes cheer:
– Many ordinary people agree with Rødt that we need community solutions and democratic governance, and have had enough of the political elite who leave far too much to the market. We want to regain control of electricity, working life and welfare from the market. That is why we are growing, says Moxnes to Nettavisen.
– You have now passed the Center Party. Does it taste extra good?
– We do not want to be opponents of this government, on the contrary, Red can be part of the solution to the government’s problems. But it is not up to us, says Moxnes, and adds invitingly:
– We reach out and say that if they want to regain control of the power, working life and welfare, then our door is wide open.
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– Does not deliver as promised
Rødt has appeared in a number of polls recently, with its best result in the Opinion’s February poll for ANB, at 10.3 percent. Red’s average in the national polls in February is 8.9 percent, according to the website pollofpolls.
In comparison, the Center Party’s average of the polls is 8.6 per cent.
– The problem is that the government does not deliver the exchange rate change that they promised. Støre and Vedum can use the historically strong majority for a change that we got in this autumn’s election, but so far they have not done so, says the Red leader
For Red, the result is significant, ie within the margin of error in the measurement.
In the poll, 1,000 people were asked what they would vote for if there were parliamentary elections tomorrow. The survey was taken from 8 to 12 February. The margin of error is between 1.2 and 3.1 percent.
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SV’s best in 17 years
SV leader Audun Lysbakken is also satisfied. A result of 10.6 percent is the best Sentio poll for the party in 17 years.
– Of course, these are fantastic numbers for us, and very inspiring, says SV leader Audun Lysbakken to Nettavisen to once again be the country’s fourth largest party.
Lysbakken describes the progress as a “left-wing wave” in Norwegian politics.
– I think this is, among other things, about rising prices for electricity and groceries for ordinary people, combined with billionaires flagging out to Switzerland and a winter that has really put difference Norway on the agenda, he says.
– For us, it also provides security, because the good measurements are also a clear feedback from people on the choices we have made this autumn and winter. I think that many who voted red-green this autumn, now see that SV works every day to deliver the change that they hoped a new government would give, Lysbakken continues.
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– Must be tough on them
The SV leader believes they have managed to show, after refusing to go into government, that they are both constructive and tough in the meeting with the government.
– If you are to achieve something, you have to cooperate, but we believe that the government has done too little and been too careful, and then we must also be tough and push for change, says Lysbakken.
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With a result of 21.9 percent, the Labor Party continues the decline after the parliamentary elections last year, after several months of falling in the polls.
– It is tough for many with high electricity prices and I understand that expectations for the government’s work are high. We take this very seriously, working every day to fulfill and become the country’s largest party again, says the party’s party secretary, Kjersti Stenseng, in a written comment to Nettavisen.
– The government is concerned that people should now be able to take everyday life back and together we work to get people back to work, secure more jobs and support culture and business in the reopening, Stenseng adds.
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Right largest party
The Conservatives also decline somewhat in the poll, but are still the country’s largest party with a result of 24.9 percent (-0.6).
– These are nice numbers for the Conservatives, says Conservative leader Erna Solberg to Nettavisen.
Solberg believes that many people are now worried about their own finances.
– Many people experience insecurity and are worried about their own finances in a time of pandemic, high electricity prices, higher interest rates and on top of all increased taxes for people and companies. We must take this seriously, points out the former Prime Minister.
The bourgeois parties, Høyre, Venstre, KrF and Frp get 78 seats in total in the poll, and also do not have a majority.
She says the Conservatives will work to solve the challenges people face in everyday life.
– We disagree with the priorities of the new government when it will spend millions on establishing new county municipalities and reversing a judicial reform that has strengthened the rule of law. That is not the most important thing for Norway now, says Solberg.
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The left gets a boost
The Liberal Party also gets a boost, with a result of 4.8 percent. It is 0.8 percentage points from January.
– It is fun to be party leader in the Liberal Party now. We have worked really hard the last year and have marked ourselves as a clear voice in issues that are important to people, says Liberal Party leader Guri Melby to Nettavisen.
She says that the mood is good in the Liberal Party during the day.
– This weekend I attended four county annual meetings where there was a good atmosphere, many new members and I feel that there is a drive in the organization. We are ready to roll up our sleeves and stand up for the 2023 election, says Melby.
On the other hand, things are worse for the Liberal Party’s former government partner KrF, after they advanced sharply in January, to five percent. Now the party falls to 3.1 percent (-3.0).
The Progress Party is also declining, to a result of 11.4 percent (-0.6). The Green Party (MDG) does the same, falling further to 3.3 per cent (-0.5).
– Of course we want to see better results than what this measurement shows, but for me it also gives motivation. We have to come back strongly to get greater support in the next election so that we can have an impact on our real green solutions, says MDG deputy director Arild Hermstad to Nettavisen.
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September: Could change Norway: These figures come 12 days late for MDG
Biggest of the smallest
The group «Other parties», the parties that are not represented in the Storting, ends up at 3.8 per cent in the poll. It is 0.8 percentage points from January.
The Democrats are the largest, with a support of 1.4 percent (-0.3). Then comes the Liberals with a result of 0.7 percent (+0.7). The Industry and Trade Party and the Christian Party get 0.5 per cent, and Other small parties 0.4 per cent (+0.2).
The Pirate Party gets 0.2 percent (+0.2), while Patient Focus and the Center get 0.0 percent.
These steal Red from
If you look at the background figures for the poll, Rødt clearly steals the most net voters from the Labor Party (34,000) and the Center Party (22,000) compared to the Storting election.
SV takes a real jab of the Labor Party’s voters (30,000). While most parties now steal voters from the Center Party, with the exception of SV, Venstre and MDG.
The figures also show that the Center Party has the most voters (26.7 per cent) who voted for the party in the election, but who are now uncertain. The Labor Party (14.3 per cent) and MDG (11.6 per cent) also have a number of insecure voters.
The least uncertain voters are Red (2.6 per cent) and the Conservatives (6.1 per cent).
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