SP leaders point to Trygve Slagsvold Vedum as prime minister

The sp-tops are full of confidence. Now county leaders in the Center Party believe that the party should fight for the prime minister if the party becomes bigger than the Labor Party.

When the Labor Party, the Socialist People’s Party and the Socialist People’s Party went to the polls in 2005, Labor Party leader Jens Stoltenberg was the undisputed candidate for prime minister in a red-green government. But then the Labor Party received 32.7 percent and the Social Democrats 6.5 percent of support.

Since then, not much has been said about anyone other than Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre as a candidate for red-green prime minister. The dramatic decline of the Labor Party and the progress of the People’s Socialist Party in recent years is about to shift into familiar positions.

Now several SP leaders openly say they want Trygve Slagsvold Vedum as prime minister in a new Labor / SP government.

Trygve Slagsvold Vedum himself did not want to clarify to TV 2 recently who is the party’s prime minister candidate for next year’s parliamentary elections:

– We do not want to enter into the debate that we have because we have been concerned that the issues should be focused. There is too much game around politics, Vedum told TV 2.

– Of course I want a SP prime minister

Aftenposten has asked the following questions to local SP leaders:

An average of opinion polls shows that the Labor Party and the Socialist People’s Party come together for support. Given that the People’s Socialist Party will be bigger than the Labor Party in the 2021 elections: Should Social Democratic leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum or Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre become the new prime minister?

Hilde Kraggerud, leader of the Østfold Center Party, says the SP leader should become prime minister if the SP becomes larger than the Labor Party in next fall’s elections.

She justifies it with the fact that Sp is in that case the largest party and that the Labor Party will then return to the previous election.

– And then, of course, I want a prime minister of the SP, write in an SMS.

When asked what qualities Vedum has that make him fit for this job, she replies that he is first and foremost a “unifying leader.”

– The largest party gets the prime minister

Hordaland Sp leader Jostein Ljones says it is “natural for the strongest party to get the most influential posts.”

– The result of the elections will show the most natural. Until then, I want to focus on the issues and the policies that will apply in the next term, says Ljones.

Vidar Nedrebø, leader of Rogaland Sp, says that “if Sp is bigger than Labor, then it is a clear demand from the people.”

– So it is realistic that the largest party gets the prime minister. If that’s what people want, they should vote for it, says Nedrebø.

County Leader Svein O. Leiros in Troms Sp responds in cash:

– Knut Arild Hareide!

Then he starts laughing.

– No. Needless to say, I want Trygve to become Prime Minister. Of course.

Leiros adds that it is in the cards for the largest ruling party to get the prime minister. At the same time, it emphasizes that the parties must negotiate in all positions, including this one, after the election.

– First elections and negotiations

Margrethe Handeland, leader of Agder Sp, believes that “they have two good candidates.”

– I don’t want to anticipate anything. Sp has a good candidate in Trygve Slagsvold Vedum. The most important thing for us is to focus on politics now.

– What is needed for me to advance from the position of candidate?

“We have to take it when we see the result and after the negotiations,” he says.

Voter signal is crucial

– We can take that when the result is available. I hope Sp will be very important in the elections, says Geir Adelsten Iversen, leader of Finnmark Sp. He emphasizes that politics is the most important thing, but that it is natural that SP will get the prime minister if he becomes the greatest.

Trine Fagervik, leader of Nordland Sp, will mean nothing now.

– Politics is the most important thing, so those kinds of decisions will come eventually.

– But isn’t it natural for the majority party to stay with the prime minister?

– That’s often the case, she says.

Several are waiting

The mayor of Sp county in Nordland, Kari Anne Bøkestad Andreassen, writes in an SMS:

– We in Spain concentrate first on politics, then we discuss positions later. I think this is a sensible entry, so the citizens who are going to vote in the elections will give the necessary signals.

– I am more concerned with politics than “gambling”, writes the leader of Trøndelag Sp, Per Olav Tyldum, in an SMS.

– We do not decide anything about positions and people before the elections. We are working to get as much support as possible, says Kathrine Kleveland, leader of Vestfold Sp.

– For Sp, politics is probably more important than positions, says Buskerud Sp leader Kari Anne Sand. She is also the mayor of Kongsberg.

Furthermore, the leader of Oslo Sp, Bjørg Sandkjær, does not reply:

– I don’t think about this much. First we win the elections and then we talk about positions, he says.

Hedmark Sp leader Per Martin Sandtrøen, who is also Vedum’s political adviser at the Storting, responds:

“In the Center Party, we focus fully on our political problems, not on positional games.”

In the Labor Party, the leadership obviously doesn’t like the decline in support and questions about who will become prime minister:

“We work and believe that the Labor Party will be the biggest party and that Jonas Gahr Støre will be the prime minister in a new red-green government,” says Jarle Roheim Håkonsen, Labor Party communications manager.