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Norway is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democratic system of governance. Both democratic governance and the monarchy were established in the Constitution of 1814. Parliamentarianism was introduced in 1884. Today, the King has little real political power, but fills an important symbolic function as the Head of State and official representative of Norwegfian society and industry.
State power is formally distributed between three institutions: The Storting (the legislative power), the
Government (the executive power) and courts (the judicial power). There is also a geographical distribution of political power into state, county and municipal levels.
General elections are fixed term every four years in Norway. The general election, held in September 2005, resulted in a victory for the centre left. Three parties: Labour (Arbeiderpartiet), Centre (Senterpartiet) and Social Left (Sosialistisk Venstre) formed a majority government on 17 October 2005. The policies of the new Government are likely to be markedly more left-wing than those of their predecessors, with an emphasis on expenditure on social welfare, the environment and local government at home, and on disarmament, development aid and peace brokering abroad.
Following a referendum in November 1994 Norwegians rejected European Union (EU) membership because it was felt that the benefits of joining were dubious bearing in mind Norway's petroleum wealth and existing strong ties with the EU through the European Economic Area (EEA) agreement.
State power is formally distributed between three institutions: The Storting (the legislative power), the
Government (the executive power) and courts (the judicial power). There is also a geographical distribution of political power into state, county and municipal levels.
General elections are fixed term every four years in Norway. The general election, held in September 2005, resulted in a victory for the centre left. Three parties: Labour (Arbeiderpartiet), Centre (Senterpartiet) and Social Left (Sosialistisk Venstre) formed a majority government on 17 October 2005. The policies of the new Government are likely to be markedly more left-wing than those of their predecessors, with an emphasis on expenditure on social welfare, the environment and local government at home, and on disarmament, development aid and peace brokering abroad.
Following a referendum in November 1994 Norwegians rejected European Union (EU) membership because it was felt that the benefits of joining were dubious bearing in mind Norway's petroleum wealth and existing strong ties with the EU through the European Economic Area (EEA) agreement.
