Norwegian Labour Party
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Labour Party
Arbeiderpartiet |
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| Leader | Jonas Gahr Støre |
| Parliamentary leader | Jonas Gahr Støre |
| Founded | 21. August 1887 |
| Headquarters | Youngstorget 2 A, 5th floor Oslo |
| Youth wing | Workers' Youth League |
| Membership | 200,500 (peak, 1950) 56,024 (2014) |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation |
Progressive Alliance, Socialist International (Observer) |
| Nordic affiliation | SAMAK |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "Alle skal med" ("Everyone shall take part") |
| Storting |
55 / 169
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| County Councils |
278 / 728
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| Municipal / City Councils |
3,465 / 10,781
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| Sami Parliament |
10 / 39
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| Website | |
| arbeiderpartiet.no | |
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* Formerly member of Comintern (1919–1923) and Labour and Socialist International (1938–1940). |
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The Labour Party (Norwegian: Arbeiderpartiet, A/Ap), formerly the Norwegian Labour Party, is a social-democraticpolitical party in Norway. It was formerly the senior partner of the governing Red-Green Coalition, and its former leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the former Prime Minister of Norway. The party is currently led by Jonas Gahr Støre.
The Labour Party is officially committed to social-democratic ideals. Its slogan since the 1930s has been "everyone shall take part", and the party traditionally seeks a strong welfare state, funded through taxes and duties. Since the 1980s, the party has included more of the principles of a social market economy in its policy, allowing for privatization of government-held assets and services and reducing income tax progressivity, following the wave of economic liberalization in the 1980s. During the first Stoltenberg government, the party's policies were inspired by Tony Blair's New Labour and saw the most widespread privatization by any Norwegian government to that date. The party has frequently been described as increasingly neoliberal since the 1980s, both by political scientists and opponents on the left. The Labour Party profiles itself as a progressive party that subscribes to cooperation on a national as well as international level. Its youth wing is the Workers' Youth League. The party is a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance, and is an observer member of the Socialist International. The Labour Party has always been a strong supporter of Norway's NATO membership and has supported Norwegian membership in the European Union during two referendums. During the Cold War, when the party was in government most of the time, the party closely aligned Norway with the United States at the international level and followed an anti-communist policy at the domestic level, in the aftermath of the 1948 Kråkerøy speech and culminating in Norway being a founding member of NATO in 1949.
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