Ine Eriksen Søreide Høyre party poll decline, Digi Mart USA News: Høyre leader Ine Eriksen Søreide has acknowledged that the party has made mistakes. Since she took over, Høyre has lost around 160,000 voters in opinion polls.
“It is not difficult for me to admit that we have gotten it wrong and made mistakes,” she told VG. Eriksen Søreide became Høyre leader on February 14.
Since then, the party has fallen from an average of 18 percent in polls in March to 13 percent now. A recent poll for Klassekampen and Nationen gives the party 15.1 percent.
“We have not been clear enough that we want to take Norway in a completely different direction than Ap and the red-green parties,” she said. She believes the decline began before the 2025 election.
A survey at that time showed that voters did not think Høyre was best on any of the party’s most important issues.
“It is a brutal message to receive, because we have always owned important areas, such as schools and health care,” she said.
There was disagreement within the party when Høyre chose not to extend the fuel tax cut last summer. Eriksen Søreide says that this issue may have contributed to the drop in polling.
She has now led work on a new plan for the party. Høyre intends, among other things, to address the learning crisis in schools, reform Nav and lower taxes.
“Norwegian schools are in crisis,” said Eriksen Søreide.
“Our main political opponent is Ap,” she said.
