Norway's populist Progress Party pulls out of the centre-right governing coalition, following the Government's decision to repatriate an Islamic State-linked woman and her two children from Syria.
Norway's constitution does not allow early elections, and the next vote for parliament will take place in September 2021.
Ms Jensen's departure was triggered by the decision announced last week that an IS-linked woman and her two children would receive help to return to Norway from Syria so that one of the children could receive medical treatment.The 29-year-old Norwegian woman of Pakistani descent reportedly travelled to Syria in 2013 and married a Norwegian foreign fighter there, who was later killed in fighting.
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