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Åshild Bruun-Gundersen, FRP health policy spokesperson in the Storting, runs the risk of being rejected by her own county party on the list of nominations before the Storting elections.
Strong forces in Aust-Agder want to steer the FRP in a more conservative national direction, as the Oslo FRP has advocated. They think Bruun-Gundersen is too liberal.
Bruun-Gundersen has been a clear voice at work to change the Biotechnology Act, including assisted reproduction for single people and allow NIPT blood testing, which can reveal serious genetic diseases in the fetus. This has hit many of his fellow party members in Sørlandet hard.
– A master at making up bad excuses.
On Monday evening, the Aust-Agder Frp nominating committee will present its final proposal for the nominations meeting to be held in November. In the previous round, the relatively unknown local politician Marius Nilsen from Grimstad placed at the top, with three to two votes.
Nilsen is the first deputy on the board of Grimstad Frp and has been a member of the party for a couple of years. If you are nominated for first place, this will be your first position as an elected representative.
You want a choice of address in Frp
Grimstad Frp leader Erling Hægeland, one of the local parties that put Bruun-Gundersen first, has declared Nilsen a central vessel, but “green when it comes to politics”. However, Nilsen eliminated the first acting candidate in the first nomination committee proposal.
Åshild Bruun-Gundersen was completely off the list, despite being nominated for first place by most local teams.
FRP team leader in Bruun-Gundersen’s hometown of Arendal, Maurith Fagerland, said in the previous round that:
– We want to orient politics a bit more towards the national liberal side, and not in the way that Åshild and some others want to go. It is a political stance. Some of us will turn to what Carl I. Hagen created.
Before the meeting tonight, you do not want to comment on the attitude or desire for a new choice of direction for the party.
– I would like to do that, but I can’t, because there are different opinions and reasons in Arendal Frp, Fagerland tells TV 2.
Lene Langemyr, head of the nominating committee, notes that many in the county party believe that Åshild Bruun-Gundersen has marked herself for Aust-Agder and Frp in a positive way. She is excited about the new input from the local teams and whether Bruun-Gundersen still gets the most support in the first place.
– My goal is to find a list that protects the interests of local and party laws. At Aust-Agder, we have a tradition of emphasizing the views of local teams in the nomination process, says Langemyr.
TV 2 has failed to get a comment from Bruun-Gundersen ahead of tonight’s nominating committee meeting.
Arguing with Carl I.
In 2017, Bruun-Gundersen ended up in a fierce war of words against party veteran Carl I. Hagen when he wanted to give up the Storting seat, if necessary to win a seat on the Nobel Committee.
He called it disrespectful to the voters who had just given Hagen their vote in the parliamentary elections. He also believed that Carl I. Hagen did not fit in as a member of the Nobel Committee.
This caused Carl I. Hagen to ignite. He made the following comment to the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen:
– It’s great that people no one has heard of have strong opinions on who should be on the Nobel Committee.
Now Hagen is trying to enter the Storting again, both on the Oslo list and on Oppland.
