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They are very green or very red and they have been small, but the Green Party (ODM) and the Red have stuck to the right side of the barrier almost continuously for two years.
Although the margins are small, both MDG leader Une Bastholm and Rødt leader Bjørnar Moxnes are convinced that the forecasts will hold until the elections and that living alone in the Storting will soon end.
They are both surprised at the same time at how much has been achieved alone.
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– We thought it would only be a lectern for four years to say what Rødt stands for, but we have managed to shape the public debate on issues such as non-profit welfare, staffing agencies, air ambulance, Acer and a number of other topics. of working life, summarizes Moxnes.
Red was behind the proposal that Prime Minister Erna Solberg has called her greatest defeat in this period: the tightening of the rules for hiring labor. Rødt’s motion of no confidence against then-State Minister Sylvi Listhaug (Frp) in 2018 led her to withdraw to avoid a government crisis.
Left: Deputy Leader Sylvi Listhaug, FRP Leader Siv Jensen, Deputy Leader Terje Søviknes and Parliamentary Leader Hans Andreas Limi from the press conference where the party declared that it is leaving the government. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB scanpix
Une Bastholm can boast of a true government crisis. She was the one who made a proposal at the Storting to bring home the sick five-year-old boy from al-Hol camp in Syria in the fall of 2019. A case that ended with the FRP’s departure from the government when the boy was finally taken away to home.
– Here I think my only mandate was absolutely crucial. The fact that I brought the matter up to the Storting made the debate completely crazy, says Bastholm.
A proposal to expand and strengthen the right to free legal aid, which ended with a majority to study and improve the scheme, is another item on the list of winners.
Bastholm also points out the importance of what she calls hidden daily pressure both on the government and on other parties, since they always know that they show up in the cards on the environment and climate.
Difficult for family life
Rødt and MDG have also made the Storting more familiar. For the two parents of young children and the former representatives, it gradually became untenable to live with the completely unpredictable pace of parliamentary life, where voting could take place at any time and on short notice, often in the evening or at night. after long debates. The two got the other parties to introduce fixed voting times in 2018.
– The big parties can share the load and the tasks, but we must always be present. I never knew if I could pick up kindergarten or make dinner, says Moxnes, who has a five-year-old and a nine-year-old at home.
Bastholm, with a three-year-old at home and a baby in the womb, says that the group life of a single woman is sometimes hard as a mother of young children and that much of the family responsibility falls on the partner.
– There is no one who can help me if I get sick during the day or have to run to kindergarten, he says.
Will on the seesaw
By fall, both parties aim to get an electoral result of around 7 percent, finish at the top and have a decisive influence on the next Norwegian government.
– Then you will notice that climate emissions will drop quickly, nature will be saved and it will be easier to choose the right thing, because we want it to be cheaper to drive buses and trains, eat green and vegetarian and repair rather than buy new, he says. Bastholm.
– A red over the barrier will be marked with a whole new force in the fight against Norway’s differential and for non-profit welfare, says Moxnes.
They both hope to be able to show greater breadth in party affairs.
– I hope to be more than just “the princess of environmental nuisance,” says Bastholm with a dry laugh.
Red-green void
Both want a change of government and a new red-green government, but while the MDGs want to join a government to take responsibility, Red believes they will have more impact if they stay on the sidelines.
However, as polls in recent months have shown, the big red-green parties need neither the MDGs nor the reds to get a majority. But they will have influence whatever happens, think Bastholm and Moxnes.
– A center-left government with an enormous height of fall, which must comply with and respond to the union movement, provides a Pacific of opportunities to push and pull in the right direction, affirms Moxnes with satisfaction.
