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This morning, the Center Party withdrew from negotiations in the Storting on a new long-term plan for the Armed Forces.
The party is furious at the “low ambitions” in the government’s plan.
– The Center Party cannot accept a long-term plan that does not give the Armed Forces the promise it needs, defense policy spokeswoman Liv Signe Navarsete tells NTB.
– Norway needs a stronger defense. We do not see that it is possible to create a majority with the Conservatives or with the FRP for a defense that is strong enough in our eyes. That is why we now announce that we are withdrawing from the negotiations.
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Discussions in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee have been going on over the past two weeks.
Right strawberry
The government wants a broad agreement on the new defense structure. The long-term plan applies to the years 2021 to 2024.
Conservatives now accuse Sp of pursuing an oversupply policy.
– The Center Party has put on the table a series of demands that the party does not know how to finance. The lawsuits run into the tens of billions in the next few years. The Center Party follows a policy of oversupply that is not rooted in economic realities. This will not provide a better defense, but on the other hand a long-term unfunded plan where tasks, defense structure and funding are not connected, Hårek Elvenes (H) tells Dagbladet.
Elvenes is on the Storting’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee.
– The hanging swamp in which the Armed Forces have been and now they have come out. The Armed Forces will not go back there. That would be the consequence of the oversupply policy of the Center Party, he continues.
Next step: Labor and the Green Party
When the Center Party now withdraws from the negotiations, it is up to the FRP and the Labor Party to secure a majority for the draft of the government’s long-term plan for the Armed Forces.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde (Frp) tells Dagbladet that the Center Party probably has the full right to abandon the negotiations.
Hårek Elvenes in the Conservative Party is very critical of the Center Party’s chess move today and is now looking forward to the FRP and the Labor Party.
– The Center Party follows a policy of crazy oversupply and without funds to the detriment of the Armed Forces, he concludes.
