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SV opens to turn in the NATO issue, but it seems artificial to stop there. Putin’s war makes it equally necessary to take up the debate on relations with Europe.
NEW ORIENTATION: SV leader Audun Lysbakken leads a party that is on its way to a fundamental reorientation in defense policy. Does it stop there? Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB
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With a overwhelming majority, Oslo SV this weekend went in to ask the parent party to reconsider the NATO issue.
The decision is relatively cautious in form – it asks the party to take the “debate”. When the thirst is so great to tackle the NATO issue again, there is still little doubt that the party is now well on its way to supporting Norwegian membership in the North Atlantic Defense Alliance.
Decisions in Oslo SV are also not unique, but confirm a trend that has become visible in the last week. More and more SV members, ranging from profiles to county leaders across the country, consider the time ripe to challenge the party’s most important security policy position.
In the big picture is this change in a medium-sized party in Norway perhaps unimportant. At the same time, it emphasizes the turning point we are now living in. SV’s new orientation reflects the war in Ukraine, and the violent political changes it has led to in a short time. SV, a party created on the basis of a political movement that had no to NATO as one of its most important foundations, finds itself forced to think completely new.
