By Gwladys Fouche
OSLO/ARENDAL, Norway (Reuters) -Investments in Israel have taken centre stage in Norway’s election campaign, sparking an unusually public debate over how the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund operates.
The row could help sway which political party leads Norway’s next government as the Sept. 8 election race is tight.
Right-wing parties – the Conservatives, Progress Party, Liberals and Christian Democrats – are currently seen winning 85 seats – just one above the number needed to secure a majority in parliament, an average of all polls conducted in August compiled by pollofpolls.no showed.
Turning up the heat on the incumbent Labour party, the left-wing Socialist Left this week said it would only support a future Labour government if it divested from all companies i