Retro poster.

Retro communist poster seen on a lamppost in town.

Election Day!

The Election Day is here.
Some have voted earlier, and some voted yesterday.

But most people do it today.

I will be watching the results on TV tonight.

Some info. in English:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/852560/Norway-election-2017-polls-latest-news-parliamentary-elections-Erna-Solberg-Jonas-Store

Sunny Saturday.

Luckely it turned out to be a nice sunny Saturday today.

The last chance for all the politicians to tell their promises before the election on Monday.

I was trying to get an ok photo of the place and all the people in front of the Culture House.

Well, I am not very tall.... so when I saw Anne Gunhild with long legs and a camera that looked very professional I asked if she managed to get some nice photos.

She told me that she was on a camera course and they were all out photographing people.
Good luck with the course and the photo shoots.

Election time.

It is election time here in Norway.
You will find lots of information here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Norway

This is a voting booth where you can still vote for a few more days.
So I guess it is just to find out WHO to vote for.

We might get a new PM soon, or perhaps Erna Solberg will continue to
be our prime minister for four more years.

JENS

This is the book JENS, that was published less than a year ago.
It is about Jens Stoltenberg, written by him, who also has been our prime minister here in Norway. And who now is the Secretary General for NATO.

Strange that the book is already on sale as low as-70%, and I find it amusing that it happens less than 3 weeks before the election.

The Labour Party is not doing very well these days.... so I guess they have to work hard to change their position and the government.

A political logo.

An old beauty well taken care of.
The logo belongs to one of the political parties that are in government.

As a blogger, I see images from all over the world, and these days there are lots of political signs on cars and in gardens in America.

Here in Norway it is very rare to see political or religious messages in gardens, but some like this car owner obviously want attention for his or hers political view.

YES or NO?

The result from yesterdays voting about whether people in Stavanger and the two neighbouring councils, Sola and Sandnes should be combined into one big council or not, ended as most people thought..... the Stavanger people voted YES, the other two NO.

Only every fourth person in Stavanger voted, not very impressive.
But it was a democratic process, and now everything is back to normal, working as good neighbours.

Who to vote for ?

Who to vote for ?
Yesterday there were so many politicians at Arnageren, the area in front of the Culture House.
Tomorrow, is the big day for the local election. THE ELECTION DAY.
Not many hours left to decide who to vote for.
So let us hope that the best politicians will win!

Politics.

We have a local election coming up....
This is the Mayor of Stavanger. (On one of the many posters that are put up all over town.)
She and the conservatives have had good results year after year.
This time it may change.
Time will tell.

Election time.

We have local elections coming up soon.
Arbeiderpartiet (Labour  party) spends millions on red roses to give away.
My husband came back with one for me after shopping.
He first pretended it was from him.

I don`t know if it makes much difference to how people vote, but they can try :)

ONS 2014.

It is a BIG EVENT in Stavanger this week.
ONS (www.ons.no) is taking place. Oil related companies from all over the world come to show their products, take meetings and conferences and perhaps find new working partners. In some ways it is a little like "speed dating" for the oil industry.

Some prominent people also attend.

Here you see our PM Erna Solberg in blue, who even took the time to be photographed together with this young woman who looked very happy about the situation.

ONS was first arranged 40 years ago.

I have only been there a few times. The size as well as the standard and creativity of the stands, has become very impressive.

Our new PM.

Tonight is a POLITICAL evening!!


I am watching TV, and Mr. Stoltenberg is now soon out after 8 years as our PM.

Look at the badge I have photographed in my hand.

Her name is Erna Solberg, and she will be our new PM very soon.

The voters have voted for her party HØYRE (conservative) with a strong margin!

Norwegian Election.

The Norwegian parliamentary election is going to take place in only 4 days time.

The politicians are out in town trying to get more voters on their side.

So who will not be working at STORTINGET on Tuesday next week??

I still don't know who I should vote for yet....

It is less than 100 days left before we have a big election going on.

Some hope for a new conservative government, some hope that our current PM will continue.

These young girls were out to giving away roses as well as info. about the labour party.

It was a busy day in OLD STAVANGER today. Shops and galleries were open and there were lots of British cruise ship tourists out and about taking a look around before heading back to the ship and a journey further north to Flåm.

The Mayor of Stavanger, Christine Sagen Helgø, was one of many who gave a speech at the vernissage.

This is probably the most busy man in Stavanger this week!

I used the opportunity to take a photo when he was interviewed by our national radio station.

His name is Leif Johan Sevland, and he is now director of the ONS.

There will be more than 50.000 visitors at this famous event, the world's leading meeting place for the energy industry.

Since 1995 until last year he was the Mayor of our city, for the Conservative Party.

He is a friendly outgoing person and well known here in the region, as well as many other places in Norway as well as abroad.

Yes, I did my duty as a citizen and voted.....

Our local elections are coming up.

For weeks we have been reading and hearing about all of the promises for change from the different parties...

This is our Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. He might be the one who continues after the votes have been counted, or he might see that someone else takes over?

The photo, I took about two years ago here in Stavanger.

More info. about our PM here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Stoltenberg

or at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8253849.stm

Yes, I have voted.:-)

I will let you know more about the election results tomorrow.

The "Norwegian Parliamentary Election 2009" is happening on Monday. This particular election happens every 4th. year.

I have not made up my mind yet who I will vote for, so I guess I have a lot of thinking to do over the next two days. There were lots of stands in town today, and lots of enthusiastic politicians who were giving out brochures and trying to find out who people were going to vote for.

The blue tent belonged to Høyre (Conservative), and the young man holds a brochure with a photo of their candidate for prime minister.... in case they do very well in the election.

We will probably know the result early Tuesday morning.

My husband says that I should vote for whichever party advocates funding research into improving memory. This is based on the ground that there might be a better chance of them actually remembering what it was that they promised "before" the election.

More about the election you can read on this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_parliamentary_election,_2009