Why a Hard Right Party is on the Rise in Norway

For years, the Norwegian Labour Party has dominated their politics. However, according to recent polls, that support appears to be waning, and a new populist right-wing party is now on the rise. In this video, we're taking a look at the Progress Party, why it's climbing in the polls, and what it means for the Norwegian politics going forward.

Why Norway is Shifting Right

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00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Context
03:48 - Why Right-Wing Populism is on the Rise
06:37 - What's Next?
07:52 - Sponsored Content

[TheChocolatBlanc]

*Why a Hard Right Party is on the Rise in [Insert EU Country] ?*

[hagalathekido]

Norwegian here, I wouldn't say theyre hard right, they're regular right, they're far less right than the nationals in France or republicans in us.
However their policy is mainly on immigration and assimilation, in a parliamentary system the smaller parties are naturally topic parties.

[allaxas]

As a Norwegian, I wouldn't even really call Høyre "Conservative". It's more like Høyre = Soft Conservative, FRP = Conservative.

[octavioquartio]

Hang on! The 2001 election lead to a centre-right coallition. The Popular Party was not involved until 2013. Also, the 2005 election lead to a Labour/Socialist Left/Centre Party coallition, not a Labour alone government.

[Froge]

I'm guessing people looked at Sweden and thought "Yeah I don't want that happening here"

[bosto]

The Progress party could've been considered "hard right" in the 90s, but their times in coalition governments, has definitely domesticated them a lot

[terje]

You are missing a few things here. Prices of electricity, interest rates, inflation, value of the NOK are things that the current government have proven unable to do anything about, add in a rising "no EU" sentiment in the mix, and those things play well into the Progress Party. Also, the Labour Party has lowered income taxes, however, a normal family has had their costs increased by increases in fuel taxes, plastic bag taxes, taxes on food, alcohol, nicotine, sugar etc etc, giving the population a feeling that "yeah they give one cent and take two back".

[jenspettergrinipedersen]

The video does not really give any explanation to why the Progress Party is on the rise, and it misses some important context.

Firstly, there is no doubt that the opposition gains from the problems of the present government, but no explanation is given for why the PP spesifically should benefit from this.

Secondly, oil and gas-policy is not that prominent in political discussions, and the difference between the government and the PP on the issue is not that large.

Thirdly, immigration is an important issue for many voters, but it has not increased very much in significance lately. Also the difference between the government and the PP has been somewhat reduced, as the government has reduced the number of quota refugees and taken a stricter tone towards immigration.

To the defence of TLDR, its not easy to fully explain the PPs rise. In my opinion the most imortant reason is that the Center Party, the junior partner in the government, got many votes in the last election due to a somewhat populist profile. Many of the votes were taken from the PP, who had to make painfull compromises when they were in government. Now that the CP is in government and have to make painfull compromises, it is easy for the PP to steal their votes with populist policies on, among other issues, increasing food and energy prices.

[odlfmariner]

It's not "hard right" it's just regular right.

[LXXXIX]

The Norwegian labor party hasn’t been left wing in 30 years. They’re a neoliberal party that’s mostly in the center but in a few areas skews to the left and in other areas to the right.

[olafsigursons]

We have to stop using far right for no reason. Criticizing immigration doesn't make you far right. Immigration is a policy which have a great impact on the society. It's OK and sane to criticized it.

[History-and-stuff]

What will this mean for the Talk Tuah podcast?

[polestar]

Progress Party TLDR from Norway:
★ Supports Ukraine (as all parties do)
★ Supports Israel (as the only party)
★ Anti EU and Pro NATO
★ Anti immigration from non Western countries

[andresmorales]

How does being skeptic on immigration automatically make you a populist?

[languist]

I'm Norwegian, and FrP isn't "hard-right" lol... it's one of the softest right-wing parties in Europe that you can imagine...

[davidfoss]

The rise has been even stronger since this video was posted. Some of the latest prognosis put the progress party as high as 25, 3% while the labour party is down to 17, 5% making the progress party the biggest in Norway, while the labour party is battling the worst results ever since they first started polling.

[L_U-K_E]

The Norwegians can see what is happening in their neighbour Sweden.

[keyboarddancers]

I automatically filter out the terms "far" or "hard" when listening to political discourse.

[Abelka]

Norwegian here but i would describe Frp and Høyre as “hard right”. They are just right wing

[johnmartint]

I think Norway saw what happened with the crime rate in Sweden and chose the right-wing because of that.