Through the election campaign, Jonas Gahr Støre has assured voters that it is possible to find a solution with SV, even though the distance in oil policy between the Labor Party / SP and SV is enormous.
Støre gave this promise at the latest in the last party leader debate in Bodø, just three days before the election.
– There is an alternative with the three of us – Labor, Social Democrats and Social Democrats – I will talk about. If there is a majority for change, we will find out, said Støre, who emphasized the importance of a majority government.
– The voters must know what we stand for and why we need a majority government – and we are close to getting it. Then it’s with these three, Støre said to Vedum and Lysbakken.
Therefore, SV had to go
– Not even soup
But that was not the case.
SV withdrew from the polls. The Labor Party and the Center Party are entering into negotiations with a view to forming a minority government.
Sources say that this was the main essence of the offer SV received in the chamber:
- No changes Dagbladet is told about the announcement of new licensing rounds for oil exploration.
- In SV, one also experiences that Støre just gave «Diffuse and non-binding» measures for cuts in oil exploration in predefined areas.
- And on tax was Labor not willing to break their own tax promise, say several in the party.
– If it was thin soup? It was not soup at all, says a source to Dagbladet.
– I do not know how we should have been clearer to the Labor Party and the Socialist People’s Party on what we need to enter government, says another SV source.
Wanted right in negotiations
Støre: – Meet SV
The impression is in stark contrast to what Jonas Gahr Støre told the press yesterday. Then Støre claimed that he had met SV.
– I would say that we have put on the table things that would really provide a basis for good negotiations. I am very confident that we have shown a willingness to find good solutions for all three parties. SV drew a different conclusion, and I just have to take note of that, Støre said when asked by Dagbladet.
But Dagbladet’s sources close to the process say that this is not an experience in SV at all. They experience that Støre was not willing to give anything in oil policy.
Dagbladet experiences: Will form a government with Sp
“Almost nothing”
Dagbladet is aware that the feeling in SV is that they were only offered a “cosmetic reduction” in the development of so-called predefined areas (APA), which means mature areas, and still an opening for new areas on the Norwegian shelf.
The offer is described as “almost nothing”.
Dagbladet wrote already this spring that Støre had planned an oil victory for SV in advance of the negotiations. And shortly after, Audun Lysbakken went and said that this was not good enough.
Dagbladet’s sources say that Støre behind the scenes ended up walking even shorter than the victory the party had planned in advance. It ended with a huge oil dispute on the chamber set while the explorations at Hurdal went several days in overtime.
– A dark day for the climate
Disappointed and surprised
Dagbladet is aware that SV is very disappointed and surprised that the Labor Party did not meet them again in climate and oil policy. The party had expected far more from Støre, Dagbladet is told.
When asked by Dagbladet about the collapse in Hurdal was an expression of poor political craftsmanship, Støre says the following:
– All three parties lined up here in good will to succeed. If it was so that it was impossible and it was not necessary to make an attempt at it then there would have been no point. But that’s the politics. Sometimes you have to find that the distance in a key area became too great.
Here, Støre’s dream is shattered
Pressured by Eggum
The pressure was put on Støre just before the explorations began last week. Then jerked Fellesforbundet’s leader Jørn Eggum out and warned Støre against giving SV a breakthrough in oil policy. Eggum, who is also a central board member of the Labor Party, told Støre through Dagbladet that the Labor Party could not give SV anything in oil policy.
This is how it went in the end as well, according to Dagbladet’s sources.
– SV is our social conscience, it is important to have them in government. But they have no idea about oil policy, Eggum said.
Among those who now raging on Støre’s oil bluff is Liberal Party leader Guri Melby.
– If Støre has not managed to give SV the breakthroughs they needed on the environment and climate, it is very disappointing, Melby says to Dagbladet.
– This is a dark day for Norwegian climate policy, Melby concluded.
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