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School choice – Spicy AUF revelation: – Consistent lie

– But that’s a lie. It is quite special that the youth party of Norway’s largest parliamentary party sits down and cooks this together.

The leader of Unge Høyre, Ola Svenneby, exclaims when Dagbladet asks him about the allegations in AUF’s debate booklet, which is distributed to all the party’s youth politicians who are currently participating in school debates.

Svenneby reacts to the speeches AUF has formulated about drug reform. Here it says:

“For eight years, the Conservative government has been in power. They have not done anything for those who need it most. The drug addicts need help, not punishment. We in the Labor Party are ready for that »

AUF confirms that the content is correct.

– They can say that AUF is against punishment for those who intoxicate themselves, but they can not say that the Labor Party is against it. After all, they have adopted something else in their program.

Went towards the drug reform

In what became one of this spring’s major political thrillers, the Labor Party went against the government’s drug reform.

They will now study a system in which they distinguish between the heaviest drug addicts and others who use drugs illegally, with the possibility of punishing the latter group.

Norwegian school debates are known for high temperatures and razor-sharp pointed formulations. The Young Conservative leader acknowledges that they have their own form.

– The ceiling height in the school debates is high. You can be creative in the formulations. But here they willingly mislead young people away in material that has been approved and sent out from central. I think they should stay too good at that, says Svenneby.

RIGHT: Ove Trellevik (H) goes hard against the left in a new election campaign video. Video: Høyre / Dagbladet TV
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Responds to the form of debate

He has gained access to the entire AUF’s debate booklet, which is a tool for young politicians who are to participate in school debates for the first time.

Svenneby believes that AUF is dishonest in its school debates, and consistently goes too far compared to the other parties.

– It’s easy to be a little tough in the mouth in school debates. We also make mistakes, but if something is factually wrong or we go too far, we lie flat.

– It is not about us not wanting the debate. Just attack us, Svenneby emphasizes.

GOT JULING: During a meeting with Erna Solberg during Olavsfest in Trondheim on Friday, Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre told about when he was beaten as a child. Video: Hans Arne Vedlog
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Rejects the criticism

Gaute Børstad Skjervø is deputy leader of AUF and leader of AUF’s election campaign committee. He responds on behalf of AUF, and rejects the accusations that AUF is lying.

– I do not know where Svenneby has read up on the Labor Party’s policy, but it is at least not with us or the Labor Party. The Labor Party will provide better health care and follow-up for heavy drug addicts. It is of course no secret that we in AUF could wish that the Labor Party went further in the issue of decriminalization for all, but in any case the Labor Party is in favor of a major health policy drug reform, Skjervø says in a statement to Dagbladet.

He nevertheless admits that the speech points could have been more precise.

– Then why are you not more precise?

OVER: Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre reacts to Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s statement during the party leader debate in Arendal. Video: NRK.
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In the course of three intense weeks, our debaters are in many hundreds of debates on widely differing topics, such as Nynorsk, drug reform and carbon capture and storage. We do our best to make our debaters feel prepared for the big task of having school debates. In the main, AUF’s debaters are good at being well-formulated and presenting the Labor Party’s message in a good way. Then there are with us – as with everyone else – examples that we have not been precise enough, but in the main our debaters are good representatives of the Labor Party and the message from them is good, Skjervø answers.

He is quite clear on what AUF’s task in the election campaign is.

– We will present the Labor Party’s message. This makes our debaters even in a good way. We focus on the fact that drug addicts must receive much better health care than today. Then we in AUF will continue to fight for a solidary red-green drug reform.

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