Norway PM issues ultimatum to junior government partners


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  • Saturday, 24 Aug 2019

FILE PHOTO: Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg attends a news conference during the annual informal summer meeting of the Nordic prime ministers in Reykjavik, Iceland August 20, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Conservative Party Prime Minister Erna Solberg has set a Monday deadline for the three junior partners in her coalition to decide whether they should remain in her government.

The crisis was triggered by a long-simmering conflict between two of the four parties in Solberg's majority government, the right-wing Progress and the centrist Liberals, over how to pay for investments in roads and public transport.

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