Norway Government to Step Down Oct. 13
Norway’s minority Labor government will officially step down on Oct. 13, Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland’s office said Friday.
It will be replaced by three center-right parties that earlier this week formed a coalition, prompted by Labor’s dismal performance in national elections last month.
State Secretary Arne Strand said Brundtland would probably stay in charge over the weekend until Oct. 16 when Conservative leader Jan Syse takes over as prime minister.
Brundtland’s minority government has ruled this country of 4 million people, with its oil-based economy and extensive welfare state, since 1986.
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