Norwegian politics, Bjørnar Moxnes | Confident Moxnes goes high against Vedum and Støre

STORTINGET (Nettavisen): Rødt’s national meeting starts on Thursday and will be digital for the first time.

Before the national meeting, Rødt’s leader, Bjørnar Moxnes, met with the press, ie NRK and Nettavisen, for a press conference.

– The elections are only half a year away, who do you want as Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre or Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp)?

– The one that gives Rødt the most impact for our most important demands, says Moxnes to Nettavisen.

– Which one is it?

– It remains to be seen. First we have to win the elections, and we have to make a record election, and then we have to come to a negotiating table, and then we will see who is willing to do that …

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– Lots of nice chat, from both of you

– Who’s leading today, then?

– It’s almost impossible to tell. They both speak highly of us reducing differences between people. None of them have so far wanted to walk away from the Conservative Party’s policy of tax cuts. On the contrary, the Center Party and the Labor Party have for many years reached serious agreements on fiscal policy with the bourgeoisie, which has led to giant tax cuts for those who live off the work of others, he responds – and concludes from the Following way :

– They both claim they want to ensure that citizens’ tax money goes to welfare, not private profit, but in the Storting they have voted against our proposal to stop welfare profit, he says.

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Moxnes is not very impressed:

– There is a lot of talk about both, but there is enough willingness to fight against the forces that stand in the way of achieving a Norway with small differences, that stand in the way of achieving a non-profit welfare, so here is it? Is it a long way to go for both of us?

– Then there will probably be other shades

– With whom do you experience what else opens the door for Red?

– It’s probably more a question of who closes less than the situation has been so far. Every day until the election, when asked, they will reject Red, both of them. They won’t give us traction at the finish line, nor do I expect it.

See also this video interview with Moxnes:

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Men:

– When the election is over, when we have made our record election and broken the barrier and entered the Storting with more than ten representatives and they need us to get a majority – yes, then there will probably be other shades on that side than before the election.

– But isn’t Rødt likely to do so well now?

– Yes, in the average of the measurements we are above the barrier limit. We have done it for the last 24 of the last 27 months. We are entering the 2021 election with over 10,000 members, a triple since the last election. And we have been at the Storting for four years, with a seat, which is not enough, but now we will be much bigger.

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– People will argue about wolves and sheep.

– The national meeting starts on Thursday. What do you disagree with most internally on Red?

– There will be important debates on how we should regulate labor immigration from the EEA to prevent social dumping; people will argue about wolves and sheep, as in Norway in general; and there will be discussions on drug policy, where some support the government’s drug reform, while others are more skeptical, and there will be discussions on environmental policy, Moxnes believes.

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