Norwegian debate, Norwegian politics | Skjæran is not a random person who stumbled upon an illegal party. He is the leader who should have stopped the party and sent everyone home

(Northern Norwegian debate)

After two years as deputy leader of the Labor Party, Bjørnar Skjæran finally broke through the sound barrier. It can be an advantage, it is soon a choice. But perhaps he could have chosen a better case.

This has happened: After the first part of the digital annual meeting of Nordland Ap ended in Bodø last Friday, the party leaders gathered to quench their thirst, in what is currently one of the country’s most infested cities.

What was to be celebrated? What was the occasion? In Bodø, there are few bright spots in a tough fight against serious illness that has sent the elderly and the sick, families and young people to their knees with the business community. The day before, a serious mayor in Bodø had introduced new and very intrusive measures in the fight against several mutated viruses.

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After this can only five people be gathered, according to municipal regulations. But in the hotel room, eight people gathered to drink not insignificant amounts of alcohol, if we are to add NRK’s ​​photo proof as a basis.

Same day had party leader Jonas Gahr Støre said that there would have been less Covid infection if the country was led by a Labor government.

Not many hours after, his deputy took the elevator up to the party in the exclusive suite “Fleinvær”, on the top floor of Scandic Havet in Bodø, which according to NRK costs 15,000 kroner a day.

Maybe it was precisely the powerful statement from Støre, about the Labor Party’s alternative pandemic handling, which had encouraged the party leaders to gather to toast with Nordlandspils and brandy.

The day after let NRK Nordland into the suite to immortalize the sour sting; The row of beer cans on the desk, liquor bottles and cans in the trash can. What parallel reality do you live in when you think such things are not discovered and revealed?

Nordland police district has initiated an investigation. Bjørnar Skjæran and the other party participants will now probably receive a fine of 10,000 or 20,000 kroner each.

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After that the powerful Labor deputy leader was caught red-handed, it only got worse; he started the day by sending out a short written apology and thought the case would blow over.

It did not, and Skjæran therefore let himself be heard again Dagsnytt 18. There Skjæran apologized for participating in the nachspielet.

He says he was invited, that he took a single beer and went to bed early.

Frankly, it is a bad diversionary maneuver. Someone had planned the party, rented the suite, and bought the drinks. What did Skjæran know about it? And how could he allow it to be drunk and fasted in this way?

As Deputy Chairman of It is not enough for the Labor Party to regret that he was involved. He should regret that he let it happen, and that he did not chase the party members home or to bed. It is his responsibility that the party was not stopped, and Skjæran should have said that on inhale and exhale today.

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Skjæran gets it instead of sounding like he’s a random student invited to an illegal school party.

In this case it is actually Skjæran who is the student council leader. And when the hangover dawns, he will understand that this is going on on his own and the Labor Party’s credibility. It is human to miss out on life and learning. It’s the context that makes it awkward. Because it is in times of crisis that we need leadership, when wear and tear increases and both loyalty and trust are at stake.

That it is The Labor Party, which ends up on a damp nachspiel, has a long tradition. But if the Labor Party’s criticism of the government’s handling is to be believed, Skjæran and Nordland Labor have made it more difficult with weak judgment and poor leadership.

Now see it out that Støre and the Labor Party let grace go to court this time. But the gods should know that not all nachspiel in the Labor Party have been taken as lightly. Especially not the deputies have participated in. Just ask Trond Giske.

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