LOST THE ELECTION: Here, AUF’s general secretary Jan Halvor Endrerud and AUF leader Astrid Hoem saw the first forecasts on the municipal election night. Photo: Hallgeir Vågenes / VG
The Labor Party’s leadership will be pressed on both the salmon tax, business policy and benefits when they meet the party organization for a crisis meeting this weekend. The AUF leader disagrees with the deputy leaders’ rhetoric.
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The Labor Party will meet in Gardermoen this weekend to evaluate the election and plan the future. The leadership will be pressured on the salmon tax, business policy and benefits. AUF wants to do more for young people who are struggling, they believe in a progressive renewal of social democracy. County leader Hanne-Berit Brekken in Møre og Romsdal Ap will address energy policy and the salmon tax as problematic in the election. Show more
The Labor Party will meet at Gardermoen on Saturday and Sunday to evaluate its worst election in 99 years – and to point ahead.
There, the party leadership will be pressured both on the salmon tax, business policy and benefits.
AUF leader Astrid Hoem says that she – in the same way as LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik – will press the party to do more for the poor.
– When we discuss the party’s strategy this weekend, our message is very clear. We must do even more for young people who struggle to believe that the future will improve. We also have to stand up for those who have the least. Those who earn the least have less to deal with today than in 2010. We also want to cut more greenhouse gas emissions in a social democratic way, says Hoem.
CRITICIZED THE MANAGEMENT: Christopher Beckham criticized the Labor Party’s strategy on the podium at LO’s cartel conference at Gol on Wednesday. Photo: Eirik Røsvik
Confederation leader Christopher Beckham in Trade and Office said on Wednesday that voters do not understand Ap’s project.
– Yes, I think it is a challenge that people do not know what they are left with after Ap has ruled the country. We have to create a better story-telling and a clearer political project that shows what they get in return when we govern, says Hoem.
Hoem wants SV into government and believes the Labor Party must build a clearer project with three main points: reduce the economic differences, cut greenhouse gas emissions and win back young voters.
THE NEW WINE: Tonje Brenna and Jan Christian Vestre became vice-chairmen this spring. Photo: Frode Hansen / VG
– Disagree about the rhetoric
– Is there anyone in the party who wants a right turn?
– It may well be that someone will discuss it this weekend and there is certainly someone who thinks so, but we are clear that we want to be a social democratic party with the heart on the left, she says.
– Tonje Brenna has been clear on the work line, while Jan Christian Vestre will cheer for founders as sports stars. Are these signals for a right turn?
– Both Jan Christian and Tonje both have a background from AUF and we have every reason to believe that they are involved in the progressive renewal of social democracy. We probably don’t quite agree on the rhetoric here. But we agree that we shall be a party safely positioned on the left in Norwegian politics. We have discussed the working line before. We agreed at the national meeting to increase the lowest benefits. The most important thing is that the policy is followed up, she says.
Points to energy and business policy
County leader Hanne-Berit Brekken in Møre og Romsdal Ap will address two specific topics when the party will discuss the evaluation report.
– The energy policy that is being pursued now does not capture our voters. There is too little focus on that in the evaluation report that is on the table. We have to address that in order to win back voters in our part of the country, says Brekken.
COUNTY LEADER: Hanne-Berit Brekken is county leader in Møre og Romsdal and mayor of Aure. Photo: Private / Private
She says that they feel that some voters go to parties such as the Industrial and Business Party, INP. She says that this applies both to the view of foreign cables and wind power on land.
– We must be more open to other possibilities for power production, she says.
She says that the party has also been punished politically by voters in North-West Norway because of the salmon tax and CO2 compensation.
– Politics and process do not always go hand in hand. Two major issues have affected the Labor Party, the ground rent tax on aquaculture and CO2 compensation. Some Ap mayors are aware that we are affected by these cases. It has been demanding for us, she says.
GRILLET ERNA: Frode Jacobsen leads Oslo Ap and sits on the control and constitution committee at the Storting. Photo: Tore Kristiansen / VG
Don’t think everything is “ass”
The leader of Oslo Ap, Frode Jacobsen, says that they have not submitted any written input.
He partially agrees with former city council leader Raymond Johansen that it is more difficult to be completely honest when you are still in charge.
– I think it can be an honest and open debate, but I think it is right that there are some limitations associated with that, says Jacobsen and adds:
– It is the same as our own evaluation four years ago. It’s different to evaluate when you’re still in charge, there’s nothing to wonder about. You have to pay attention. We do a lot of good. It’s not like when you win an election everything is perfect and that when you lose an election everything sucks, he says.
GOING TO MEET THE PARTY: Jonas Gahr Støre and Kjersti Stenseng are both going to the party’s evaluation meeting this weekend. Photo: Frode Hansen / VG
Pointing to Melkøya
Leader of the Lyngen Labor Party, Wigdis Willysdatter With, says that she has submitted her input to the party. She believes that the party’s happy matters came far too late in the election campaign, and that the attention on the electrification of Melkøya made it difficult to run an election campaign in the north.
She understands Raymond Johansen’s suggestion that he does not believe that there will be a completely open and honest debate this weekend.
– I can understand him saying that. I am a person who dares to speak out, but I find that some people are afraid of not getting positions if they speak out too loudly, says the Lyngen politician.
– Do you experience that in the Labor Party?
– I know that other members have given feedback that they experience it, she says, but stresses that she is not aware of it being a problem in her own county team, in the Troms Labor Party.
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Published: 25.11.23 at 06:03
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