Anti-immigrant Norway party lays claim to government role

Norway's main opposition leader Erna Solberg (R) of the Hoyre Conservative Party arrives outside the Parliament building in Oslo, after the general elections, September 9, 2013. REUTERS/Aleksander Andersen/NTB Scanpix

OSLO (Reuters) - An anti-immigrant populist party laid claim to a major role in oil-rich Norway's government for the first time on Tuesday after a centre-right alliance won a landslide general election victory to oust a Labour administration.

The Progress party, which once had among its members Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011 in a gun and bomb attack targeting Labour, came third in Monday's poll, giving it a kingmaker role in coalition building.