Norway's billionaires spent the election campaign smearing Rødt – but the party kept its focus and secured a historic electoral breakthrough

This post is 1500 words by a full-time politician in the party Rødt extolling the supposed triumph of an extreme party gaining 4,7 percent of the vote in this year's election.

According to polling, 63% of this small sliver of the electorate voted Rødt in the election four years ago.

According to the same polling, only 8000 of 174,000 votes that swung from the right to the left in Norwegian politics from last election to this one landed in Rødt.

13 percent of those who said they voted for the Socialist left party (SV) four years ago, voted for Rødt this time, a slight leftwards move.

For several years, the Red Party (Rødt) had been consistently polling above the electoral threshold of 4 percent. Beating this score would mean a breakthrough for the radical left in Norway not seen since the euphoric advances that followed 1945.

Kristjansson is simply factually incorrect in his statement here. When SV were in a majority, coalition government and had the finance minister in said government was the "breakthrough for the radical left in Norway not seen since 1945."

Rødt has consistently polled much higher in the last years than they got this election. That's a clear indication that they ran a bad campaign and lost voters through 2021, not that they succeeded despite others warning of the dangers of their unreasonable economic policy.

Why in the world should the Norwegian state buy all pharmacies in the country using the sovereign oil fund, meant for all future generations of Norwegians after the petroleum age-exploitation of our natural resources is over?

This result was not one that should be cause for celebration in Rødt, and Kristjansson pushing such a narrative despite knowing better is an example of yet another Red party profile showing his true colors.