{"id":9622,"date":"2013-10-29T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=9622"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:59:38","slug":"breivik-survivors-elected-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2013\/10\/breivik-survivors-elected-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Breivik survivors elected to parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Four survivors of Anders Breivik&#8217;s 2011 massacre were elected to the Norwegian parliament on 9 September.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">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.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This meant the anti-immigration Progress Party &#8211; who Breivik himself was a member of &#8211; joined with the Conservatives to form a centre-right coalition government.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Lone gunman Breivik shot and killed 69 people at a summer camp for the youth wing of Norway&#8217;s Labour Party on the island of Ut\u00f8ya in 2011. The party has distanced itself from Breivik&#8217;s actions.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of the four survivors to be elected is Stine Renate H\u00e5heim, 29, a former councillor in Nord-Aurdal. While being interviewed on CNN, the day after the massacre, she said: &#8220;If one man can create that much hate, you can only imagine how much love we as a togetherness can create.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Her quote was used by Prime Minister Jens Stolenberg during a memorial service for the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four survivors of Anders Breivik&#8217;s 2011 massacre were elected to the Norwegian parliament on 9 September.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This meant the anti-immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161,14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}