Siv Jensen incompetent in case against county leader – VG

Several sources with close knowledge of the process in Frp that will decide the future of Oslo leader Geir Ugland Jacobsen inform VG that the matter was already a topic at the central board meeting in November.

There, the Organizing Committee presented reports it had received from various quarters on Ugland Jacobsen’s controversial statements and informed the party leadership that they would consider them. The committee’s task is to assess whether the members violate the FRP statutes and party principles.

The committee is chaired by central board member Alf Erik Andersen.

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According to information from various sources to VG, the party’s leader, Siv Jensen, attended the central board meeting, but is said to have declared himself incompetent when the case of the Ugland Jacobsen investigations appeared on the agenda.

– When the matter came up at the central board meeting, Siv said he left the meeting because he was incompetent. Then the deputy took over, a source tells VG.

Among the things the Organizing Committee raised, according to sources with knowledge of the meeting, was Jacobsen’s repeated suggestion that party leader Siv Jensen was not necessarily a natural choice for first place on the Oslo Storting list prior to next year’s elections.

– I can confirm that Siv Jensen is incompetent, writes the leader of the Organizing Committee Alf Erik Andersen to VG in a text message.

Hagen suggested

In an interview with TV2, Jacobsen recently announced a bench proposal for party veteran Carl I. Hagen ahead of the nomination meeting in Oslo Frp. He was open to the fact that he, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, and Hagen could top the list together.

– It’s a very captivating thought, Jacobsen said. TV2.

If the proposal, which originates from Jacobsen’s home team in Oslo, wins at the county team’s nomination meeting, Jensen could lose his safe seat at the Storting. The meeting was scheduled to take place tomorrow, but was postponed until the end of January, VG reported.

Confirm

VG has asked General Secretary Finn Egil Holm at Frp, Deputy General Secretary Øistein Lid and committee leader Andersen for a comment on information about the process and that Jensen declared himself incompetent when the case was at the central board.

The others have not responded to inquiries. Deputy Leader Sylvi Listhaug has also not responded to a VG inquiry about the case.

The central board meeting, which went digital, took place before Jacobsen recently came out with another controversial proposal on VG, where he claimed that there is much evidence that it was a large-scale cheat campaign that led to the president Donald Trump, lost the election this fall. .

Dozens of demands from the Trump campaign have been roundly rejected in various states. Jacobsen’s proposal was later roundly rejected by FRP Deputy Leader Sylvi Listhaug.

Kite race

The long-time manager and businessman made a career as a kite in Oslo Frp and was elected county leader in the capital in February. Now his career may be over, after several controversial moves and team-of-the-match conflicts.

The contradictions were already apparent at the annual meeting where Jacobsen was elected. Together with parliamentary representative Christian Tybring-Gjedde, he obtained the passage of a resolution that stated that the party should become a “patriotic beacon” in the world.

Party leader Siv Jensen was seated in the hall and voted against the recommendation.

Jacobsen then came out in an interview with Finansavisen this summer and questioned Jensen’s right to a Storting seat on the Oslo roster. He also wanted to lead the party in a “national conservative direction”:

– Tybring-Gjedde is written by the Storting. I’m not sure about Siv. I’ll be very happy if Carl shows up. The nomination can go all the way, Ugland Jacobsen said.

– Basically unfair

The move sparked outrage in the party and prompted several other county leaders to ask the central board to consider shutting down the Oslo team. The party’s powerful Organizing Committee, which analyzes whether party members are violating ethical and organizational guidelines, was urged to intervene.

– It is fundamentally unfair for a county leader to go against the party leader, and not least his ideology, then FpU leader Bjørn-Kristian Svendsrud told TV 2.

– It is a pity

The Oslo FRP county council met on Thursday evening in a digital meeting to be informed about the work of the organizing committee.

Ugland Jacobsen tells VG that he will not have access to the meeting minutes and is awaiting the committee’s conclusion.

Jacobsen says he can live with a warning or reprimand for his statements, but he sees no reason to stay if the ongoing process against him leads to his being stripped of his position or suspended.

– Then I don’t see any reason to stay. In that case, it will be a vote of no confidence. That would be a shame. “I have friends in the party who I know are working honestly and honestly for the same goal as me,” says Jacobsen, who has been a member of the Progress Party since the 1980s.

– As a volunteer who abandons both money and family life for politics, I, like many others, depend on the answer as motivation. You feel like you do a lot of positive things in your position, he says.

– I do not see that what I have done is particularly reprehensible. You always see that you can say things a little differently, or use other words, but there must be room for mistakes. There would not have been many politicians left in Norway if you were punished for all that you have done wrong, and some are offended.

– Perhaps I lack good will because I have taken a political line, not everyone agrees.

He has tried to build a new national conservative platform for Oslo Frp, for which he believes there is enthusiasm among the party’s voters at the national level.

Jacobsen says he and the party’s leader, Siv Jensen, do not completely overlap on the question of the party’s future political direction.

– I feel like there is a lot of support for the new platform among voters, but less the higher up in the party you go, says Jacobsen.