Norway votes in thrillingly close election

Norwegians voted on Monday in an election nail-biter in "the world’s happiest country" with the outgoing rightwing coalition facing a strong challenge from the centre-left opposition. Opinion polls in the oil-rich Nordic state have predicted an extraordinarily close race between Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s team and the opposition led by Labour’s Jonas Gahr Store. Several small parties could end up as kingmakers.

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