Erna Solberg admits that the bourgeoisie are divided politically, but says that the red-greens are more divided – VG

Sunday is one year for the parliamentary elections, on September 13, 2021.

When VG asks Conservative leader Erna Solberg to point to the weakest card in the red greens, she responds:

– I think a weak side for them is that they differ a lot in politics, says the Prime Minister before adding:

– Although the bourgeois parties also differ in primary politics, people know where compromises come from. They have seen the kind of politics that we follow. In a way, he does something different, he tells VG.

The background is, among other things, that Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre in various opinion polls has relied on the support of Rødt and MDG to gain power from the government.

– FRP must choose

– But when the FRP in its last meeting of the national board reclined on the fact that it does not support a government in which they themselves do not feel, then the bourgeois alternative has become more unpredictable?

– Yes, at the same time it is the case that it was also their last starting point, but then they came to the government. They must respond if they want to elect a bourgeois government rather than get a Labor government, says Solberg.

– I think they will benefit more from a bourgeois government. I think it will be very strange if the Labor Party is installed by the FRP, he adds.

Deputy Jan Tore Sanner believes that the bourgeoisie will find good solutions, even after the elections.

– We’ve been doing it for seven years. Although there is a difference in some cases, Frp is very concerned about taxes and fees. There will be no tax cuts with the Labor Party. But we can do it together, Sanner tells VG.

– To put it that way, it was a moderate response. All parties on the red-green side have promised tax increases, tax increases, says Solberg.

– optimistic

Erna Solberg’s speech at the Conservative Party national meeting began and ended with Jahn Teigen’s smash hit “Optimist.”

– Do you have a relatively optimistic tone for next year in relation to the budget discussion?

– I am optimistic, because I believe that Norway has that creative power and that opportunity. I think we have the potential for this to happen. But the potential must be unleashed, says Solberg.

She believes that the policy of the Conservative Party creates the framework conditions that are necessary in the future for Norwegian companies and investors.

– The Labor Party may have tried to talk about a crisis before the last parliamentary elections and probably will not succeed. But are you now trying the opposite, talking about a strong economy that works well to avoid the crisis?

– No, I am very clear that we will probably fight for a long time, but I am not talking in perspective until 2021. I am talking about Norway in the next ten or fifteen years. There I am optimistic about what Norway can achieve and what we have the opportunity to achieve. But it requires us to make it easy, he says.

In a hurry?

– But it should materialize before the 2021 electoral campaign, don’t you think?

– It’s going better right now than the worst predictions were too short a while ago, says Solberg.

– But none of us believes that before the 2021 elections we are sure that we have returned to where we were at the beginning, he adds.

– This is mainly due to international conditions now. It has gone from the national crowning measures and shutdowns that are the biggest challenge for an export-oriented economy to becoming the international terms, Solberg says.

– Does Støre think that the conservatives abandoned their politics and followed a social democratic policy and that it was the way out of the crisis?

– It’s bullshit. This is crisis management in the first round. The measures we are implementing now have to do with strengthening Norway and then we will strengthen the private sector. Støre’s answer is higher taxes. This is not what Norwegian jobs and businesses need now. They need a more conservative policy, says Sanner.

Oil and Energy Minister Tina Bru was elected as the new deputy leader of the Conservative Party at today’s national meeting.

He asks voters to pay close attention when other parties present their party programs before next year’s parliamentary elections.

– It will be exciting to see the processes of the match program in the other matches as well. I think we all have to agree that there is a lot of uncertainty about where we want to be next year, but we have to see if the rojiverde matches adapt to the situation and, for example, manage to put aside that they always point to an increase in taxes in response, Bru tells VG.

– Not the correct answer for Norwegian companies today.

She notes that Solberg in her speech points to climate and hydrogen booster investment in the debate about what we should live in the future.

– Did I also hear tax breaks in the speech?

– Many companies are doing well. They are having a hard time, says Bru.

– You don’t get the green change if you have a red bottom line, says Sanner.