Four survivors of Anders Breivik’s 2011 massacre were elected to the Norwegian parliament on 9 September.
Despite this, the Labour Party suffered a blow in the election, losing nine seats to reduce its presence to 55 seats and forcing it to hand over power to a coalition led by the Conservatives.
This meant the anti-immigration Progress Party – who Breivik himself was a member of – joined with the Conservatives to form a centre-right coalition government.
Lone gunman Breivik shot and killed 69 people at a summer camp for the youth wing of Norway’s Labour Party on the island of Utøya in 2011. The party has distanced itself from Breivik’s actions.
One of the four survivors to be elected is Stine Renate Håheim, 29, a former councillor in Nord-Aurdal. While being interviewed on CNN, the day after the massacre, she said: “If one man can create that much hate, you can only imagine how much love we as a togetherness can create.”
Her quote was used by Prime Minister Jens Stolenberg during a memorial service for the victims.
