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Rasmus Hansson received 201 votes to Holdtvedt’s 173 votes.
So it is the former MDG cap that comes second on the Green Party’s Oslo list for the Storting elections next year, behind Oslo city councilor Lan Marie Berg.
MDG believes they can hijack two of Oslo’s 20 seats in the Storting.
In that case, it will mean a return to the Storting for Hansson, who was the party’s first parliamentary representative when he was elected in 2013.
Favourite
Hansson was considered a difficult pre-favorite in the duel with Hulda Hultvedt. Both candidates have previously informed the nominating committee that only second place interests them, and that they will say no to other places.
When the nominations committee announced that they would drop a split nomination, Rasmus Hansson first decided to withdraw from the nomination process.
After several fellow party members endorsed him and promoted him as a bench proposal, he still decided to take the fight.
City Councilor for Urban Development Hanna Marcussen was one of those who promoted Hansson. Among other things, he argued that Hansson wanted to help expand the MDGs, that he had nominated four women under the age of 33 at the top of his list.
Change the safest place
I do not agree with the choice of address
Politically, the two candidates parted ways on the question of whether the MDGs should cooperate. While Hansson has made it clear that he wants the party to remain independent from the bloc, Holtvedt wants to cooperate with the left.
– Støre, Vedum and Solberg must not be allowed to believe that they have the MDGs in their pockets before we negotiate politics. The job of the MDGs is to use all the power we get from the voters to push for a much more ambitious environmental policy than Norway has seen so far. If the MDGs gain turning power, we will empower government, or remove government power, from both the red and green sides to achieve our goals, Hansson told Dagbladet before today’s nominating party.
Tested in Akershus
Hansson ran out of the Storting in the 2017 election when he tried to run for the Akershus election, handing the first place on the Oslo list to Une Bastholm. Shortly thereafter, he resigned as the party’s national spokesman.
Since retiring from politics, he has been CEO of Handelens Miljøfond.
Une Bastholm, who later became party leader, will do next year what Hansson did before her and will stand for election in Akershus.
