Majority imposes 20 crown measures on the government: layoffs are extended – VG

– The majority is likely to support the continuation of the reinforced redundancy scheme and measures for companies, Hans Andreas Limi (Frp) tells VG at 19 on Monday night.

The parties also agreed to extend an extended support scheme for companies until July 1, schemes that were due to cease on March 1.

– You are now against the agreement, Kari Elisabeth Kaski (SV) told VG at 8.15pm.

Just after 8:00 p.m., the Labor Party and the Center Party also confirm that the list of agreements – small and large – will be formulated in about 20 points in a majority proposal that they raised in the Storting.

– The government has been left behind. These are absolutely necessary reinforcements and continuation of existing schemes, says Rigmor Aasrud, acting vice chairman of the Labor Party parliamentary group.

Found together – again

On Tuesday, the Storting will consider statements about the pandemic like Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) and Health Minister Bent Høie (H) held at the Storting early Monday.

The four opposition parties, which have a majority in the Storting, started talks this weekend on promoting joint proposals in the Storting. The purpose was to order the government to broaden and broaden the current crisis packages.

– The agreement has a lot to do with creating security and predictability for companies and workers, Kaski tells VG.

– Sp has long believed that measures should last as long as the pandemic lasts. So it’s good that most now agree on a completely different degree of predictability, says Sigbjørn Gjelsvik (Sp).

Kaski says there is also an agreement on a billion-dollar package for students, with demands that the scholarship rate be increased.

It highlights that the reddish greens would like to go further in the measures for workers and the demands that they will make on the companies that receive support, such as demands that they do not fire people while receiving money, but that Frp has not participated in it. .

However, these proposals will be presented tomorrow at the Storting.

The FRP was actually going to meet with the rest of the so-called “four bands” – the Labor Party, the Socialist People’s Party, the Socialist People’s Party and the Green Party – for further negotiations on Monday afternoon, but decided to leave the meeting after a statement by Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre from the Storting rostrum early Monday.

Target the FRP and the ruling parties

The Labor leader said the FRP and government parties are responsible for many families struggling hard in the crown crisis.

According to Sylvi Listhaug and Hans Andreas Limi, deputy leader of the FRP, there were such strong reactions to Støre’s remarks that they abandoned planned talks with the red-green Ap, Sp and SV parties on Monday.

– Støre did not exactly facilitate our cooperation with them with what he said today at the Storting. We realized that. And that has an impact on how interested we are in continuing to talk to them, Sylvi Listhaug tells VG.

Will spread

These are some of the proposals that all four parties agree on:

** Extend the reinforced dismissal regime that is applied now, until October 1. It now expires in March. Prime Minister Erna Solberg announced this weekend that the government would extend it, but only until July 1.

** FRP wants the cash subsidy to businesses, 85 percent of specified fixed costs, to extend through July 1. The current scheme expires on March 1.

The FRP says these proposals will likely win a majority in the Storting on Tuesday.

– We will present our proposals at the Storting on Tuesday morning. So the other parties vote for what they agree with us, Limi tells VG.

Strengthen schemes

Here are several proposals from Frp, but at 7pm it was unclear if they would reach the majority.

The other three parties were still in talks and did not want to comment on the status to VG.

** The tourism, catering and events scheme, which took place in two rounds last year, FRP wants to reopen in 2021, and that one billion crowns will be invested in support.

** The student support scheme, many have become dependent on part-time jobs but are still out of work. FRP will put a billion kronor in the pot.

** A compensation scheme for aviation must hit lightning speed, Frp demands. Last fall they agreed with the government that it should be studied and presented during January.

** FRP will also have a wage subsidy as an alternative to dismissal. FRP assumes that the scheme should be simpler than last year’s wage subsidy and that the maximum amount should be greater than NOK 15,000 per month.

Budget settlement

Before Christmas, the FRP negotiated with the ruling parties and stuck with the Solberg government in the Storting both in the state budget for 2021 and in the latest round of crisis packages.

But this time the FRP turned to the opposition.

Listhaug says the infection situation has changed a lot since the deal was signed and that it is worse than feared in the new year.

Government on its hind legs

– We believe that the government is too on its hind legs. So we have to go ahead and show the seats where we know there is a majority in the Storting, which they should follow up on, Listhaug tells VG.

She denies that they are behind the government’s back now:

– Now we register that there were several parties that came out and aired what worried them. It was very similar to what we wanted to say in some cases. The government has been quite quiet about these things and then we have seen them move after seeing that there is a majority in the Storting, he says adding:

– But we will vote the proposals for which we are and we will cooperate with parties that give us a majority in matters. This is also our attitude when it comes to tackling crisis packages.