Norway populist fails in Nobel bid
A controversial former leader of Norway's anti-immigration party yesterday failed in his bid to join the committee that awards the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
According to Alfred Nobel's will, the five members of the committee are elected by the Norwegian Parliament, which takes into account the balance of political power.
The populist right-wing Progress Party, currently a junior partner in Norway's two-party coalition, proposed its outspoken former party leader Carl I. Hagen, now a deputy MP, for one of the seats.
But 73-year-old Hagen only received 16 votes, while 86 were cast in support of Labour party candidate, Berit Reiss-Andersen, in a ballot to partially renew the committee yesterday.
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