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The Conservative Party (Norway) (view source)
Revision as of 14:03, October 6, 2008
, 14:03, October 6, 2008→In charge, 1981–1990
The Labour Party was in charge from 1986 to 1989, when a government consisting of the same parties as in Willoch II took the power. [[Jan P. Syse]] from the Conservative Party was Prime Minister until 1990, when his government fell due to a vote of no confidence, where the Centre Party voted against it's own government because of Syse's decision about working for Norway's entering into the [[European Economic Area]]. Syse is per 2008 the last Prime Minister of Norway representing the Conservative Party.
The Labour Party was in charge from 1986 to 1989, when a government consisting of the same parties as in Willoch II took the power. [[Jan P. Syse]] from the Conservative Party was Prime Minister until 1990, when his government fell due to a vote of no confidence, where the Centre Party voted against it's own government because of Syse's decision about working for Norway's entering into the [[European Economic Area]]. Syse is per 2008 the last Prime Minister of Norway representing the Conservative Party.
===Today, from 1991===
The discussion about joining the [[European Union]] was the most important case in the 1993 parliamentary election, and was the main reason that the Conservative Party dropped down from the place as second largest party, to being the third largest one. The Conservative Party was beaten by the [[The Centre Party (Norway)|Centre Party]], as the Centre Party became the largest opposer to a Norwegian membership of the EU.
== Criticism ==
*''Party for the rich''. This believe has been uphold by the left-wing parties in more than hundred years, mainly because the Conservative Party was an interest party for the middle and upper class in the beginning. Today, the worker's class has more or less disappeared in Norway, and most people can define themselves as middle class. It is internal stated: "The Conservative Party shall be a party for everybody, not just those who vote for us. We shall be the party for the nurse, the industrial worker, the engineer, the bank director, and the immigrant boy. If the unemployed man at home in a small apartment in Oslo doesn't vote for us, that doesn't mean that we won't make it easier for him to get a job again."
*''Only tax cuts for the rich''. Used as an argument by, especially, the Labour Party against the Conservative Party, most recently in the 2005 parliamentary election. The party supports tax cuts for everybody (and was done when the party was in government; 2001–2005), not just the rich, so the criticism is built upon wrong facts.
==Prime Ministers==
==Prime Ministers==