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On Sunday the match between Carl I. Hagen (76) from Oslo West and Wenche Haug Almestrand (53) from Lillehammer will be decided for a parliamentary seat from Oppland Frp.
On Sunday, the nominations meeting at Oppland Frp decides whether veteran Carl I. Hagen from Oslo or Wenche Haug Almestrand from Lillehammer will be on top. Photo: Private / DG
Lillehammer FRP leader Arne Egil Marsteintredet predicts a “close race” and that the daily form of the candidates will decide.
On Sunday at 1100 at the Victoria hotel in Lillehammer the historic nomination meeting begins at Oppland Frp. Here, local team delegates will vote on who will be at the top of the parliamentary election list.
Today’s game has a representative from Oppland. Today’s representative, Morten Ørsal Johansen, is not running for re-election.
FRP veteran Carl I. Hagen has been nominated by the nominating committee. But it has not happened without numerous fights, intrigues and protests.
Marsteintredet and another member resigned from the nominating committee after Hagen was nominated. He himself is charged with black Hagen after he was injured for claiming he “is too old”.
– It just came out. That was not really what I meant, he says today.
– What did you mean?
– Carl I. Hagen is not hungry enough to do anything for Oppland, says Marsteintredet, who emphasizes that Hagen “has been the best politician in Norway.”
Hagen was President of FRP from 1978 to 2006 and left the Storting in 2009.
Carl I. Hagen bets on a comeback at the Storting. On Sunday, there will be a battle for the top spot on the Oppland FRP list. Photo: Ketil Blom Haugstulen
– The Heart Burns for Oppland
Challenger Wenche Haug Almestrand is the CEO of the Sentrum Drift business association, has a background in advocacy and is a member of the county council.
Her lips are tight and she doesn’t want a public duel with Hagen:
– I’m running as a counter-candidate. I don’t want to comment further before the nomination meeting, as the process is now, he says.
Hagen’s opponents are running alternate candidates in all positions. They note that Haug Almestrand has been in the running as the top candidate for many years.
– Wenche is a member of the county council and fights tooth and nail for industry and school. I am not in favor of citing. The main thing is to do a good job. But as long as we are lucky enough to have skilled, willing and able women from Lillehammer, there is no question.
– Carl I. is not from Oppland. This is also a battle for the Storting’s headquarters five years from now, says Marsteintredet, and aims for Hedmark and Oppland to merge into one and the same constituency in Inland.
– Then it is important for us that we have an Oppland candidate, he says.
He also notes that “your heart burns a little more for Oppland when you come from Oppland.”
– Does Hagen represent Oppland, Norway or himself?
– He works for Norway. He is passionate about Norway, he believes.
Promises pension and snowmobile route
The garden has traveled several miles along National Highway 4 and worn gravel roads in recent weeks. Often with millions of generous promises in their pockets.
In the local newspaper Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen, former political editor Hallvard Grotli characterizes Hagen as a “reserved bearer” and “savage bearer”.
Oppland Arbeiderblad has written about the election tour with headlines like “Carl I. Hagen will fight for better pensions and elderly care in Oppland.”.
The garden has also created conflict with a controversial proposal for a snowmobile route in Valdres.
– We must have commercial development in Etnedal, we must attract more people there. A snowmobile trail from, as it was now called, Gamlestølen, to Beitostølen, can contribute to that, Hagen says.
The plot is greeted with a nod by tourism actors who sell experiences in nature.
– Hesitant. A strange element with noise and exhaust. Silence is our most important product, a global product, says Bjørn B. Jacobsen at Destinasjonskirurgene, who works as a tourism consultant in Beitostølen.
Hagen “does not consider it appropriate to comment on what others have said.”
– After being first proposed to me, I was in Otta, Etnedal, Lom, Skjåk, Østre and Vestre T. And I spoke warmly about the area zoning plan for the Raufoss industrial park in the Storting yesterday, says Carl I. Hagen .
Hagen says it is “humble” and that it will be an exciting vote.
– They asked me if I would like to run to save the mandate, he answers. Some believe that if I am the main candidate, we can win back some people who voted for the FRP in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
– In those elections, we obtained more than 20 percent at the national level. Obviously, we have lost several voters over the age of 50. With Carl I. at the top, some have thought we could get them back. I said I’m willing to try, says Hagen.
– Do you represent Oppland or Norway?
– Both of them. I want to be an ombudsman for Oppland by asking questions during Question Time, written questions and the like.
On December 5, he’s set for a new comeback attempt from Hagen. This time in Oslo Frp. Hagen is running for election in third place after party leader Siv Jensen and Christian Tybring-Gjedde.
– If I can contribute to a place in Oslo to recover a number of voters, I am willing to do so, he explains.
– Has Siv Jensen said anything about his comeback plans?
– Not as far as I know.
– Didn’t you talk to her?
– In.
The garden is connected to Oppland through its holiday complex in Lesja north of Gudbrandsdalen. His wife Eli also grew up here. In a previous interview, she made it clear that she believes her husband should remain a pensioner.
– He is 76 years old and must know that it is over. But he is better at home when he is involved in politics, he said.
