Norway Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Kingdom of Norway

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Oslo

Political suhdit isions: 19 counties, 407 communes, 47 towns

Legal system: mixture of customary law, civil law system, and common law traditions; constitution adopted in 1814 and modified in 1884; Supreme Court renders advi sory opinions to legislature when asked; legal education at University of Oslo; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations

National holiday: Constitution Day, 17 May

Eranches: legislative authority rests jointly with Crow n and parliament (Storting— Lagting, upper house; Odelsting, lower house); executive power vested in Crown but exercised by Cabinet responsible to parliament, Supreme Court, 5 superior courts, 104 lower courts

Government leaders: OLAV V King (since 1957); Kare W1LLOCH, Prime Minister (since September 1981)

Suffrage: universal at age 18 but not compulsory

Elections: held every four years (next in 1989)

Political parties and leaders: 1 ,abor, Gro Harlem Brundtland- Conservative, Rolf Presthus (in April 1986); Center, Johan J.

Jakobsen; Christian People’s, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Liberal, Odd Einar Dorum, Socialist Left, Theo Koritzinsky; Norwegian Communist, Hans I. Kleven, Progressive, Carl I Hagen

Voting strength: (1985 election) Labor, 40.8%; Conservative, 30.4%; Christian People’s, 8.3%; Center, 6 6%; Socialist Left (Socialist Electoral Alliance!, 5 5%; Progressive, 3.7%; Liberal, 3.1%; Red Electoral Alliance, 0.6%; Liberal People’s Party (antitax), 0.5%; Norwegian Communist, 0.2%; other 0.4%

Communists: 15,500 est.; 5,500 Norwegian Communist Party (NKP); 10,000 Workers Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (AKP-ML, pro-Chinese)

Member of: ADB, Council of Europe, DAC, EC (Free Trade Agreement), EFTA, ESRO (observer), FAO, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, ICES, ICO, IDA, IEA (associate member), IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, International Lead and Zinc Study Group, 1PU, ITU, IWC—International Whaling Commission, IWC—International Wheat Council, NATO, Nordic Council, OECD, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WSG

NOTE: The information regarding Norway on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Norway 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Norway 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.