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After Norway election, Labor leader poised to become new PM

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By JAN M. OLSEN
Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Norway’s Labor Party will start talks in an attempt to build a coalition after the center-left bloc beat the incumbent Conservatives and won Norway’s general election. The Labor Party and its two left-leaning allies the Socialist Left and the euroskeptic Center Party grabbed 100 seats in the 169-seat assembly. The current government won 68 seats. The last seat is going to a northern Norway health-focused protest party. The outgoing assembly was 88-81 in favor of the center-right led by Prime Minister Erna Solberg. She was ousted after two four-year terms in the job. Her party also suffered a huge loss of nine seats.Monday’s result means that currently all five Nordic countries now have left-leaning governments.  

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