(7 Sep 2025)
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Oslo, Norway – 7 September 2025
1. People walking to cast early ballot at the polling station
2. Woman casting a ballot
3. Various of people in voting booths
4. Various of man casting ballot
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Andreas Groedtlien, film director:
"I don’t feel like the most discussed topic is the most important one. I’m not actually sure what’s the English term for it, it’s called formuesskatt. It’s a tax on large wealth. That’s been widely discussed in television and podcasts, and debates, and all over the place, and I feel like that shouldn’t be the most important topic of the election, but it seems like it is."
6. Campaign tents outside the Norwegian Parliament
7. Woman distributing campaign leaflets
8. Sigrid Dehli Jensrud talking to a campaign volunteer
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sigrid Dehli Jensrud, doctor:
"The main topic was kind of ridiculous because it was about the taxes on people’s fortunes, which I don’t think is the most important subject in the world. And I think it’s a little embarrassing that it dominated the election, and I think also it was embarrassing that climate change was such a small part."
10. Various of people casting ballot
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Gundersen, business designer:
"I hope that the new government will focus more on the climate change and do everything that we can do possibly."
12. Various of Khalil Euchello casting ballot
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Khalil Euchello, student:
"I expect some good change, more democracy and I just hope we just reach a government that is helping us and helping the country to become more stabilised, more efficient."
14. Election poster featuring Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre
15. Campaign poster featuring Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide and Erna Solberg from Norway’s Conservative Party
16. Wide of campaign volunteer talking to people
STORYLINE:
Prosperous Norway is holding an election this week, with inequality high on the list of concerns and the future of a wealth tax that has endured for over a century in doubt.
Election day is on Monday but in many municipalities, including Oslo, people could also vote on Sunday.
There is expected to be a close outcome between the center-left bloc led by the Labor Party of Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s leader for the past four years, and a right-wing bloc.
Labor wants to keep the wealth tax that has been a mainstay of Norwegian policy since 1892. Of its rivals on the right, the Conservatives want it reduced and the Progress Party, which calls for lower taxes and more immigration controls, wants it scrapped. Previously a fringe issue, it has been at the heart of this campaign.
Some Norwegians in Oslo felt embarrassed and disappointed; the wealth tax dominated the campaign, overshadowing other issues like equality and climate change.
"I think it’s a little embarrassing that it dominated the election," a 46-year-old doctor from Oslo, Sigrid Dehli Jensrud told The Associated Press. "I think it was embarrassing that climate change was such a small part."
"That’s been widely discussed in television and podcasts, and debates, and all over the place, and I think it shouldn’t be the most important topic of the election," echoed a 37-year-old film director, Andreas Groedtlien, after casting his ballot at the City Hall, one of the several polling stations that opened in Oslo on Sunday afternoon.
AP video by Kostya Manenkov
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