The Storting, the parliament of Norway, has voted in favor of retaining the monarchy in the country. Out of 169 MPs, 141 voted in favor, and 26 against, Norwegian media report. A two-thirds majority in parliament was needed to transition to a republican system of governance.
The vote was held against the backdrop of several scandals surrounding the Norwegian royal family and a decline in its popularity.
The trial of 29-year-old Marius Borg Hoiby, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, began in Oslo on Tuesday. He is accused of a total of 38 crimes, including four counts of rape. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
Also, a new scandal is brewing around her mother, Princess Mette-Marit. This is connected with the publication of a new batch of documents in the case of the notorious billionaire, the late Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex crimes in the US. It turned out that Mette-Marit’s ties with Epstein were much closer than previously believed.
