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The 169 members of the Storting are elected from 19 fylker (counties) for 4-year terms according to a complicated system of proportional representation. After elections, the Storting divides into two chambers, the Odelsting and the Lagting, which meet separately or jointly depending on the legislative issue under consideration.

The special High Court of the Realm hears impeachment cases; the regular courts include the Supreme Court (17 permanent judges and a president), courts of appeal, city and county courts, the labour court, and conciliation councils. Judges attached to regular courts are appointed by the King in council after nomination by the Ministry of Justice.

Each county is headed by a governor (fylkesmann) appointed by the King in council, with one governor exercising authority in both Oslo and the adjacent county of Akershus. Each county has a county assembly, led by a mayor, who is distinct from the governor. The counties are divided into 434 kommuner (municipalities). The municipalities are led by assemblies, which elect a board of aldermen and a mayor. Lately, the functions of the counties and municipalities have been the subject of debates, and changes may take place in the near future.

Until the 1981 election, Norway had been governed by majority Labour Party governments since 1935, except for three periods (1963, 1965-71, and 1972-73). The Labour Party lost its majority in the Storting in the 1981 elections. Since that time, minority and coalition governments have been the rule.

From 1981 to 1997, governments alternated between Labour minority governments and Conservative-led governments. Labour leader Gro Harlem Brundtland served as Prime Minister from 1990 until October 1996 when she decided to step out of politics. Labour Party leader Thorbjørn Jagland formed a new Labour government that stayed in office until October 1997. A three-party minority coalition government ( Center, Christian Democratic, and LiberalVenstre is the name of two Scandinavian political parties Venstre (Denmark) Venstre (Norway). parties) headed by Christian Democrat Prime Minister Kjell Magne BondevikKjell Magne Bondevik (born September 3, 1947) is a Norwegian lutheran minister and politician. He has twice been Prime Minister of Norway, last from 2001, when he succeeded Jens Stoltenberg up to the current date. He also served in this position from 1997 moved into office when Jagland, after the September 1997 election, declared that his government would step down because the Labour Party failed to win at least 36.9% of the national vote, the percentage Labour had won in the 1993 election. That government fell in March 2000 over the issue of proposed gas-fired power plant, opposed by Bondevik due to their impact on climate change. The Labour Party's Jens StoltenbergJens Stoltenberg (born March 16, 1959) is a Norwegian politician and economist, and the current leader of the Norwegian Labour Party. He was State Secretary, Ministry of Environment 1990- 1993, Minister of Industry 1993- 1996, and Minister of Finance 1996, a Brundtland protégé, took over in a minority Labour government but lost power in the September 2001 election when Labour posted its worst performance since World War I. Bondevik once again became Prime Minister, this time as head of a minority government with the Conservatives and Liberals in a coalition dependent upon the Progress Party.

1 Country name:

conventional long form: Kingdom of Norway
conventional short form:

local long form: Kongeriket Norge/Noreg
local short form: Norge/Noreg

Data code: NO

Government type: constitutional monarchyA constitutional monarchy is a form of government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges a hereditary or elected monarch as head of state. Modern constitutional monarchies usually implement the concept of trias politica, and have the

Capital: Oslo

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