Hmm.. now the filithy pigs of the extreme-leftist/Marxist EU establishment in Norway try to keep the Norwegian patriots out despite their electoral success... a bit like some years ago when despite getting 15%, the FN only got one seat in the National Assembly, while the Communists had more than a dozen....
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2011361.ece
Progress Party 'punished' for its popularity
Norway's most conservative party, the Progress Party, scored its best local election results ever but has wound up with fewer mayors around the country. That's because other parties have ganged up against the Progress Party, "to keep them down."
Siv Jensen leads a party that's grabbing growing voter support. That worries rival parties, who team up despite diverse politicial ideology to limit the Progress Party's inflence.
PHOTO: THOMAS ANDERSEN/SCANPIX
One local politician from Aurskog-Høland in Akershus, northeast of Oslo, as much as admitted it to newspaper Aftenposten over the weekend. According to Hanne Heyerdahl-Simonsen of the small Center Party (Sp), the Progress Party "is a protest party, which says 'no' to the society we are today. I think it's a dangerous development that we live in a country where such 'protest parties' are getting bigger and bigger.
"For us, it's important to keep them down..." the Center Party politician told Aftenposten.
Her party, which represents rural interests in a rural district, only won four mandates to the local governing council (bystyre) while the Progress Party won 11. Nonetheless, Sp managed political maneuvers that allowed it to retain the mayor's seat in Aurskog-Høland, even though voters clearly favoured the Progress Party.
Similar incidents have occurred elsewhere in Norway. The Progress Party, together with the Conservatives, grabbed more than 50 percent of the popular vote in Skodje, for example, but lacked one mandate in the council. That prompted the Labour Party, Sp, and the Liberals to team up and vote in a mayor from Sp.
"Even in Stranda, the Labour Party tried to ally itself with the Conservatives and the Liberals by offering them support for a mayoral candidate," Frank Sve of the Progress Party, who hung on to the mayor's job, told Aftenposten.
"It shows in a frightening manner how little respect (the other parties) have for the voters," he added. "They clearly fear that we're doing too good of a job."