This is stated by Sirin Stav (MDG) during a press conference. The Conservative Party rejects the offer of talks, according to NRK.
City Council for the Environment and Transport, MDG’s Sirin Stav called a press conference on Thursday evening. Photo: Olav Olsen / Aftenposten
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Published: 14/09/2023 20:48
Updated: 14/09/2023 21:37
During the press conference, MDG’s first candidate for Oslo City Council, Sirin Stav, stated that the party will investigate the possibility of collaborating with the Conservative Party.
– The election result did not give the result we wanted. MDG will take responsibility and therefore hold talks with the Conservatives and Liberals to keep the FRP out of power. I think we owe that to the voters, says Stav.
MDG has informed the Conservative Party that they want to hold talks with them about cooperation.
The rest of the party is said to have given her support to initiate talks.
Originally they wanted to get the Liberals on the red-green side, but Stav now says that they owe it to the voters to enter into cooperation with the Conservatives to get a green policy.
They now hope that the Conservative Party will be willing to cooperate in order to avoid what she calls “gray politics”. But they have no agreement with the Conservative Party yet.
– There is no doubt that the distance between the Conservative Party and MDG is large. But we must do what we can for a green policy. If the right closes the door, I hope the Left will come over to the red-green side.
The Conservative Party refuses offers of talks
On the other hand, the right-wing city council leader candidate Eirik Lae Solberg is adamant that cooperation with MDG is out of the question and declines the offer of talks, writes NRK.
– We promised that a bourgeois majority would give a bourgeois city council. We therefore want to talk to the three parties about the formation of a new city council, he says to NRK.
Previously, the leader of Oslo MDG, Sigrid Heiberg, said that they do not rule out joining the city council with the Conservative Party.
MDG fell sharply in Oslo, as in many other places in the country, and there is no longer a majority for the red-greens in the capital. A city council consisting of the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party and the MDG will, however, have a majority – which is also an alternative that the Liberal Party has talked about warmly.
– I am basically very positive about a collaboration with the Liberal Party, but we will never open a collaboration with the Frp, Heiberg has previously said.
2023-09-14 18:48:32
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