Norway PM Jens Stoltenberg to resign after conceding general election to centre-right opposition

The Conservatives and their allies have won a majority of the seats in parliament, according to official projections with most votes counted.

Erna Solberg, who heads the Conservative Party, is widely expected to form a government with the anti-immigration Progress Party.

Mr Stoltenberg said he would step down after presenting the budget next month, it was Norway's first general election since attacks by a far-right extremist killed 77 people at a Labour Party youth camp in 2011, the perpetrator of those attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, had previously been a member of the Progress Party.

source bbc