Støre AP–Sp centre-left minority government (Norway)

Doctrine — stated goals and content

(a) Mainstream Nordic social-democracy: preserve the handlingsregel (3% real-return spending ceiling on the Government Pension Fund Global) while widening redistributive transfers, green-transition industrial policy, and resource-rent capture on newly profitable sectors. (b) Left-right axis — centre-left on distribution and climate, but institutionally conservative on fiscal-rule discipline and NATO / EEA commitments; Sp pulled the coalition toward rural-periphery and anti-centralisation positioning until its February 2025 exit over EU energy-directive adoption. (c) Key policy content: resource-rent (grunnrenteskatt) extension to salmon aquaculture (2023, 25% effective rate after parliamentary compromise) and to onshore wind (2024, 25%); the electricity price-support scheme (strømstøtte) launched December 2021 and repeatedly extended through 2022-2024 as Nord Pool prices spiked post-Russia gas shock; increased CO2 tax trajectory to NOK 2000/t by 2030; 2024 abortion law reform extending the self-determination limit from week 12 to week 18 (Storting vote 2024-05-30); commitment to continued handlingsregel discipline and GPFG mandate continuity. (d) Popularity — the AP–Sp ticket won 100/169 Storting seats in September 2021 (AP 48, Sp 28, SV 13 as supply); approval declined through 2022-2024 with AP polling in the mid-high teens (worst for AP in the polling era) and heavy losses in the 2023 local elections (AP ~21.5%); Sp's February 2025 walkout over EU's Fourth Energy Package reset the coalition and produced a Stoltenberg-led Finance Ministry ahead of the September 2025 election. (e) Coherence: internally consistent social-democratic-with-fiscal-rule package but politically strained by the coalition's simultaneous pro-oil / anti-centralisation / climate-transition commitments, which the salmon and wind resource-rent fights surfaced publicly.