Politics, Center Party | Full fight on the red-green side: Vedum Scold

The Center Party continues to advance in the polls, and in the October Nettavisen poll, the party is roughly the same size as the Labor Party with 19.8 percent support. Thus, the leader of the SP, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, is also emerging as a possible candidate for prime minister.

But not everyone is equally happy with that on the red-green side. The Green Party (ODM) does not have much to say about the party that may become dependent on its support after the elections.

– I think that the policy that Vedum defends does not help us here, we are in the middle of the climate and environmental crisis. He looks back when we need politicians who use knowledge to face the future, MDG Deputy Leader Kriss Rokkan Iversen tells Nettavisen.

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– Sell fake security

In several of the opinion polls in the past year, the Labor Party, the Center Party and the Socialist People’s Party have relied on the support of MDG or Rødt to obtain a majority in the Storting.

But that doesn’t mitigate the harsh criticism from the Green Party.

– Vedum sells counterfeit safes, where we need hope through action. It is not the case that the climate and nature crisis will disappear. It is a reality that we must deal with. My experience is that it blunts people with a false hope that nothing will change, says Iversen.

She believes that people just shouldn’t be fooled by the Center Party’s four-leaf clover in the logo.

– One must not be fooled by the party’s logo, because the Center Party, as it appears today, is an ash-gray party, environmentally hostile. They do not prioritize Norwegian nature, but instead compete with the FRP to be more hostile to the climate, he says.

However, the Center Party reacts strongly to the criticism. See the answer below.

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– Will canned us

For the Center Party, the politics of the district and having public services where people live is one of the most important issues. But the MDGs are not particularly impressed in that area, either.

– They make it seem like the weather has nothing to do with the districts. I totally disagree with the policy of the Vedum district: it seems like it will send us back to the past, says Iversen.

She points out that she wears the district boots herself, after growing up in Lofoten and now lives at her home in Harstad.

– But the district policy you present to me does not resonate with the hope I have for the future in the northern districts of Norway, he says, adding bluntly:

– So it is irresponsible that it can continue as before in an artificial bubble of the Center Party that is not related to reality.

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– Vedum as prime minister?

– So you don’t want Vedum as prime minister?

– The ODMs depend on the blocks. We have said that we will discuss with all parties except the FRP, but first the voters must decide next year, says Iversen, noting:

– There is no relevant question. First, voters must decide which parties want to form a government.

– But can you support Vedum as prime minister even if you disagree so much?

– We support a government in which we have the greatest impact for the climate and the environment, then we will see who manages to comply, he says.

In the October survey, conducted by Sentio, the MDGs received 4.2 percent support. In the poll, however, the three former ruling red-green parties have only a majority.

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– Oil and fiscal populism

Iversen says he now trusts young politicians and the green wing of the Center Party.

– I hope Senterungdommen and the rank and file will oppose Vedum’s easy fiscal and oil populism, says the deputy leader of the MDGs.

She believes that the key to green change lies precisely in the districts.

– I am also concerned about corporate policy and that ecological change is based on nature-based industries. Since renewable natural resources are found in the districts, the district communities are the key to Norway’s success in ecological change. It is a great opportunity to solve the climate crisis and at the same time create jobs in the districts, he says.

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Arnstad: – Unnecessary insult.

However, the criticism causes Sp’s parliamentary leader Marit Arnstad to react strongly.

– Such a widespread insult that the MDG deputy leader is making here illustrates why it is not relevant that the Center Party governs with the MDGs. I think it is completely unnecessary to insult us like that, says Arnstad to Nettavisen.

She thinks they should rather discuss specific topics.

– It is true that the MDGs and the Center Party see climate policy differently, and it depends on which instruments should be used in climate policy. The MDGs largely want to use bans, and we don’t want to use bans, but to contribute to green growth and not a climate policy that contributes to social and geographic imbalance, he says.

Arnstad notes that in the party’s proposal for a new party program, they discuss where greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced and where they should generate growth.

– You cannot have read our program proposal, because it is a great chapter on the environment, sighs the parliamentary leader of Sp.

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– That is the problem of the MDGs

Arnstad thinks the MDGs simply ignore other people’s suggestions, although they can be good.

– The problem with the MDGs is that they do not believe that it is a good climate policy if it is not exactly how the MDGs want it to be. It’s a way of discussing climate policy that the MDGs need to abandon, because there are multiple ways to achieve that goal of how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he says.

She believes that they should also stop attacking like they do in this case.

– I think they can stop attacking the leader of the Center Party as a person, because that is what she really does, and it is very unnecessary, says Arnstad, adding:

– I perceive it as an insult, and I think it is a bad starting point for a sensible collaboration.

– But are you late like she says?

– No, we are not at all. We have our own solutions for what we believe is important for the development of all of Norway. So we have respect for the fact that other parts have other solutions, but it’s a bad tone to just throw that kind of label on other parts, he says.

Senterungdommen: – Gets angry

The center’s youth leader Torleik Svelle doesn’t have much to say about the MDGs either.

– I hope that we achieve a change of government and a government based on the Center-Labor Party, and then I think it will be difficult to bring more. The distance that separates us from the MDGs in particular is great, Svelle tells Nettavisen.

– Why can’t you cooperate with the MDGs?

– There are some attitudes towards Norwegian farmers that make me angry and sad. We are only talking about reducing meat consumption and reducing milk production. It is a reality that is far from what I myself live, he says.