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FRP leader Siv Jensen (left) arrived just before 10 a.m. Thursday morning with the prime minister’s office along with the party’s chief negotiator, Sylvi Listhaug, for further negotiations with the government parties. Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB
Conservatives, Liberals and Christian Democrats will meet with the Progress Party for a new negotiating meeting on next year’s state budget on Thursday morning. – It’s serious now, says Siv Jensen.
- NTB-Kristian Skårdalsmo and Anders R. Christensen
– We had some movement yesterday so now we are excited about whether the government has shown its willingness to act when we enter, FRP leader Siv Jensen told reporters when she arrived at the Prime Minister’s office just before 10 o’clock Thursday.
There, he meets with party leaders Erna Solberg (H), Kjell Ingolf Ropstad (KrF) and Guri Melby (V) for a new round of negotiations on the state budget.
– it’s serious now
Jensen says the most important issues for Frp in the negotiations are money for retirees, asylum and immigration policy, border trade taxes and transportation.
– It is too early to say if we will agree. There is still a great distance between us, and for us it all comes down to two things: political impact and enough money, says Jensen.
– It is serious now, and it is the government that can help solve this mess. FRP has been constructive throughout, but our demands must not be wrong, says the party leader.
More constructive
After a meeting on Wednesday, Jensen spoke of the process being more constructive, but that there was still a lot to do.
Negotiations at the Storting began on November 9 and, a week later, the parties agreed on a NOK 22.1 billion crisis package for companies and municipalities affected by coronary heart disease.
The talks passed from fiscal politicians to party leaders last weekend.
The Storting finance committee’s recommendation will be presented on Friday. If the parties do not reach an agreement before then, negotiations are likely to continue through the weekend, until the financial debate on December 3. A possible agreement can then be presented in the room before the debate.
