The fight against tolls must wait. Now Trym Aafløy fights more for his salary.

It’s an unworthy battle for a high-paying position.

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So Trym Aafløy Opting out of People’s Action no to more tolls (FNB) before Christmas, put that Bergen policy on your head.

It is unique that the group leader of the third largest party resigns and becomes independent.

When he logged out, he answered the question about the annual salary at BA: “Do you think I should give up my integrity for just a million crowns?”

The next day, he asked the city council to keep the position. Now he is fighting the loss of power on several fronts.

He will lose vice president of the urban planning commission. It’s just a matter of time.

That position would be awarded to Tore Landmark at Wednesday’s city council meeting. Now Aafløy is forcing the city council to vote on the position, without changing the result. But the city council won’t be able to do this until the February meeting.

Aafløy thus receives an additional monthly salary as a co-tenant.

Is in a way understandable if Aafløy believed the deputy director position was personal. That he could jump off the FNB ship and just represent himself, with no consequences for his position.

Elected representatives cannot be removed from the council, even if they have resigned from their party. This choice is personal.

In the previous period, Marita Moltu resigned from KrF and was therefore independent. He then reported on the transition to the Christian Party. It had no consequences for his position as deputy mayor.

But he recruited is personally, in accordance with Municipal Law. The election of mayor and deputy mayor applies to the entire term.

The election of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the commissions only applies to the next decision.

Aafløys Party if the crowns don’t stop there. This week, the business committee addressed the hiring dispute for the third time. In an invitation, Aafløy and the other two withdrew from FNB a quarter of their demands for party support, office space and group secretary.

That would mean 663,333 crowns for each of them, annually. It is about six more gongs than an ordinary city council member receives to stand at all city council meetings and on a committee.

Only in a new letter does Aafløy claim that they really intended to form a new group. Aafløy believes that there is a basis for an intermediate position as group leader. This group would receive NOK 836,375 per year. But the director of the City Council, Roar Kristiansen, responds that the group currently has no right to receive support.

Party support must follow party support in the previous election. Aafloy’s new group has not stood for election.

The saga is not over because the Ministry of Local Government and Modernization last year examined the municipality of Oslo in a similar case. At that time, FNB separatist Danny Chaudry received party support of NOK 1.2 million annually.

Following this decision, the ministry has asked the Party Law Committee to consider the case.

Yes Aafløy and his peers succeed, as Chaudry did in Oslo, it can have dire consequences.

Today, there are six independent representatives in the city council, as many as SV representatives. SV received 8.6 percent of the vote in Bergen.

Independent representatives are not a problem in and of themselves. People should be able to quit their party. I did it myself at the end of the election period in 2015.

But you don’t have to give people a financial incentive to break away from your party. If Aafløy has his way, the elected representatives will have a great financial interest in resigning from their party and thereby getting the party’s support paid directly.

So the city council can quickly look completely different than what the voters voted for.