Authorities suspect that the attacker is a Muslim convert who was beforehand flagged as having been radicalized.
Norway’s new center-left Cabinet has taken workplace after the incoming prime minister offered a center-left minority authorities Thursday, a day after a lethal bow-and-arrow assault in a small city.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, the chief of Norway’s center-left Labor Party, stood exterior the royal palace together with his 19-member group — 10 ladies and 9 males — that features the chief of the euroskeptic Center Party, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, who turns into finance minister.
Emilie Enger Mehl turned Norway’s youngest-ever justice minister at age 28, whereas the overseas minister portfolio went to a different lady — Anniken Scharning Huitfeldt.
Gahr Stoere mentioned it was “a special day” due to the “outrageous event” in Kongsberg, a small city exterior Oslo, wherein a Danish man was taken into custody after Norwegian police say he killed 5 folks with a bow and arrows and wounded two others on Wednesday.
“It is horrible what has been revealed, it’s stunning to consider what folks have skilled,” Gahr Stoere instructed reporters earlier than the swearing-in ceremony of the brand new authorities, pledging the brand new Cabinet’s full consideration on the Kongsberg case.
Authorities suspect that the attacker is a Muslim convert who was beforehand flagged as having been radicalized. Norway’s home safety company says the assault seems to have been an act of terrorism.
“But although the backdrop is heavy, this is still the day to present a new government,” the 61-year-old Gahr Stoere mentioned earlier than a cheering crowd after the ceremony was over.
He took over after Erna Solberg was ousted within the Sept. 13 election after two four-year phrases.
In line with custom, the outgoing and incoming governments have been greeted by relations and well-wishers, and acquired flowers and Norwegian flags, after formally assembly King Harald V.
On Wednesday, Gahr Stoere and Slagsvold Vedum, the chief of the Center Party that’s Norway’s third largest, unveiled a 83-page coverage program for 2021-2025 the place local weather and the atmosphere are amongst key areas.
In the September vote, the Labor Party — the biggest occasion in non-European Union member Norway — received the election with 26.3% of the vote whereas the Center Party completed third with 20.4%.