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The FRP leader believes that conservatives can now show whether they are serious by supporting his demands.
On Monday, the Conservative Party program committee presented the first draft of a new party program for the period 2021-2025. The committee proposes several adjustments in immigration policy, something for which the Progress Party has fought for many years.
FRP leader Siv Jensen is welcoming, but it’s doubtful that the adjustment will actually happen.
– It is good that the conservatives in their first draft of the program propose a tightening of immigration and integration policy. We will still have to wait and see what the national gathering of the Conservatives actually decides. We’ve seen before that they sent test balloons that were quickly knocked down at the national gathering, Jensen tells Nettavisen.
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– Low credibility
As a general rule, the program committee proposes to grant temporary residence only to refugees coming to Norway. The program proposal also states that “they hope to return to the areas where people have fled when this is safe.”
– We will help more people fleeing to safe third countries. We can help more people with the same money that way, the committee’s vice chairman, Henrik Asheim, told Nettavisen on Monday.
Read the full draft of a new match program here (external link)
Watch a video interview with Asheim here:
Jensen believes, however, that the Conservatives have little credibility on the field.
– The problem is that the credibility of the conservatives is terribly low on these issues, all the time they allow the liberals and KrF to dictate immigration policy in individual cases in the government. We saw this most recently in the case of recovering migrants from the Moria camp, says Jensen, adding:
– We also saw it when the conservatives made a knee-jerk reaction to an IS terrorist, who along with KrF and the Liberal Party brought to Norway, she says.
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– Support requirements for quota refugees
The Conservative Party program committee will also increase the residence requirement from three to six years for a permanent residence permit for citizens outside the EEA and the Nordic countries. In addition to introducing requirements for at least four years of self-sufficiency, and requirements for labor participation to obtain a permanent residence permit, unless special reasons indicate that it is not reasonable.
The proposals will finally be adopted at the national meeting of the Conservatives in March, but the FRP leader believes that the Conservatives in the Storting can already show that they are serious about tightening.
– The first chance for conservatives to show they are serious when they say they want to toughen immigration policy is to support the FRP’s demand to cut the number of quota refugees in the state budget proposal this fall, says Jensen.
– Have similar meaning in the past
When Nettavisen asked Asheim if he proposed a stricter immigration policy to satisfy the wishes of the former government partner FRP, he rejected it:
– No, not really. I think we’ve wanted to say similar things on shows in the past. And then we also know that we will negotiate with other parties on the bourgeois side about the policy that is being followed, but this is the main position of the conservatives, and then we will have to negotiate after the elections, Asheim said.
REFUSED: Henrik Asheim on Monday rejected the program committee proposing to tighten immigration policy to comply with the wishes of the FRP.
Photo: Jørgen Berge (Nettavisen)
Parliamentary representative Karin Andersen (SV), on the other hand, has little for proposals.
– Only those refugees who have good finances should be able to be together as a family, Greetings Conservatives. What if it was you, Helleland, who lost everything and had to flee and then had to live in eternal fear for your children and the children had to live without courage because you did not earn “enough,” Andersen wrote on Twitter this Monday , referring to the program committee? leader, Linda Hofstad Helleland.
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The Conservatives will hold this year’s delayed national meeting next Friday, but the proposal for a party program won’t be a topic until next year’s national meeting in March.
The party program also proposes several changes to the sale of alcohol, eliminating the cash subsidy and introducing the price of roads. Watch a video interview about the proposals:
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