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Two of the three representatives of Frp in the Bergen city council have been excluded. Report BA today.
The two are party veteran Tor Woldseth (68), who was previously deputy mayor and acting mayor in Bergen when Frp ruled the city alongside the Conservatives and KrF, and Thomas Flesland (35).
The party’s exclusion comes after a long period of internal unrest and conflict in Bergen Frp.
– sad
– Vestland Frp decided to initiate an investigative case this summer, linked to a series of media reports with statements showing that one did not accept the organizational decisions that had been made. That is what has resulted in this decision, says Vestland county leader Frp Gustav Bahus to Dagbladet.
He says it is sad to have to withdraw from any membership.
– But we have clear ethical and organizational guidelines that everyone is obliged to adhere to. When we are now going to reestablish a strong team in Norway’s second-largest city, we must have peace in the organization, he says.
The local team closed
According to BA, the mood between the two now-excluded representatives and the city council group leader Marte Monstad has long been bad.
In December of last year, he went so far that the entire home team was shut down.
– The central board decision means that it is the county team that will be responsible for all party activities in Bergen. The background is many long internal conflicts in the local team in Bergen, the party’s then general secretary Fredrik Färber said in a press release.
Only one left
Marte Monstad will now be the only FRP representative in Bergen city hall, after the FRP received a miserable election result in 2019.
He became group leader in Bergen Frp after a harrowing leadership battle with Woldseth. Contributing to his victory was, among other things, that his partner Christoffer Thomsen, who was the leader of Bergen Frp, made sure that the deputies did not have the right to vote.
Later, he also used his double vote to secure the FRP’s only paid post in Bergen.
– It has escaped
– Now he’s really got away, writes Morten Myksvoll, a bt commentator who was a Bergen City Council member for Frp for four years, before resigning from the party in 2015.
– The party is also fighting in Oslo, but there is a political discussion about the differences, he writes, and he concludes that such a discussion does not exist in Bergen.
– The parties do not provide any arguments in their favor among the people. So it seems like pure personal conflict, he says.
I still find
The two excluded party members will continue to appear as independent elected representatives.
– I don’t have many comments now, other than that I want to appeal the decision, writes Flesland in an SMS to Dagbladet. Tor Woldseth has not responded to Dagbladet’s investigation into the case.
Mars Monstad refers Dagbladet to the county leader, Bahus.
According to the Frp statutes, it is the county council that will handle and adopt an exclusion, with the central board as the appeal body. Therefore, Siv Jensen will not comment on the case.
