Norway PM defends strong state as election starts<
Norway's prime minister defended on Sunday his government's cautious tactics in steering the economy through crisis, as early voting began in a closely fought parliamentary election. Polls show Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's centre-left coalition neck-and-neck with the right-of-centre opposition in a race set to determine whether the affluent Nordic country opens new Arctic regions for oil and gas exploration and how it spends its vast oil windfall. One new opinion poll on Sunday showed the government taking 85 seats in the 169-member parliament, just enough to be returned to power. That would be only the first time in 16 years that Norwegians have voted back the incumbents.
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