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Government of Norway

  • Norwegian Bokmål: Regjeringen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Regjeringa

Governs Norway

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Who it answers to

The Government stays in office only while the Storting does not express no confidence in it. Norway has negative parliamentarism: ministers need not win a vote of confidence to take office but must resign if the Storting votes no confidence.

Constitution of Norway, Article 15

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  • Executive power

    The King in Council holds the executive power (Constitution Articles 3 and 12); in practice the Government prepares legislation and the budget proposal and runs central administration, and is responsible to the Storting (Article 15).

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  • data.stortinget.no · checked Stortinget, Open data API regjering (members of the government, XML v1.6), retrieved 2026-10-12: the Government (Regjeringen). For: Government of Norway
  • data.stortinget.no · checked Stortinget, Open data API regjering (members of the government, XML v1.6), retrieved 2026-10-12: Government offices and holders. For: Who it answers to, Government of Norway in Norwegian Bokmål, Government of Norway in Norwegian Nynorsk, Executive power
  • lovdata.no · checked Lovdata, Kongeriket Norges Grunnlov, Article 12, read 2026-10-12: the King appoints the Council of State including the Prime Minister; selection set to appointed with selector King of Norway (office 56848) per world conventions section 3, convention described in selection_detail. For: Prime Minister
  • data.stortinget.no · checked Stortinget, Open data API regjering (members of the government, XML v1.6), retrieved 2026-10-12: government office. For: Prime Minister, Minister of Health and Care Services, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Energy and 15 more
  • wikidata.org · checked Wikidata Q10282 (Jonas Gahr Støre), position Prime Minister of Norway, start 2021-10-14, read 2026-10-12: start date. Fallback: Wikidata, because the Storting API gives no start dates. [verify:no 2026-10-12: URL corrected from Q10282 (Pamplona) to Q467948 (Jonas Gahr Støre).] For: Jonas Gahr Støre as Prime Minister
  • data.stortinget.no · checked Stortinget, Open data API regjering (members of the government, XML v1.6), retrieved 2026-10-12: current government member and portfolio. For: Jonas Gahr Støre as Prime Minister, Jan Christian Vestre as Minister of Health and Care Services, Jens Stoltenberg as Minister of Finance, Espen Barth Eide as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Terje Aasland as Minister of Energy and 15 more

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