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– Why should Norway’s most popular politicians pose for photos with one of the least popular? asks a central Party Party source for TV 2.
TV 2 knows that Trygve Slagsvold Vedum as recently as Friday turned down a request from Jonas Gahr Støre’s new chief of staff, Siri Hytten, to appear in a play with Støre.
Støre wanted Vedum and SV leader Audun Lysbakken to pose with him in photos and in an interview with VG about the government liberalization of the taxi industry, which will take effect on November 1.
Sps strategy: Yes nei.
But in the Center Party, the assessment is that they have nothing to gain by appearing in interviews in which they help profile Jonas Gahr Støre. In particular, the sources that TV 2 has spoken to are concerned about how current and potential voters of the SP will react if they perceive that Vedum is backing Støre as a candidate for joint prime minister of the red-green opposition.
Therefore, the strategy of the Center Party is to say no to joint initiatives with the leaders of the Labor Party and the Socialist People’s Party. In the party, the assessment is that most people serve each other with a focus on the party’s own political solutions and that running for joint interviews will lead to questions about cooperation.
The Center Party believes that they are the clearest alternative to the current government and that joint initiatives with the Labor Party can make the party confusing.
“There is a lot to do when it comes to presenting our own problems and our policies back in the day. Today we had a separate political plan with the taxi industry on the liberation of the government, affecting an already pressured industry. the one that we have been working on over time. There is no more drama than that, “writes the head of the communications department of the Center Party parliamentary group, Lars Vangen, in a text message to TV 2.
Labor: – We ask from time to time
“When there are issues on which we agree, such as the fight for decent working conditions in the taxi industry, we sometimes ask if our partners will join the initiative. Of course, they choose even if they want to join, and there is no problem when they say no, ”writes communications manager Jarle Roheim Håkonsen in the Labor Party parliamentary group to TV 2.
But TV 2 knows that Vedum’s coldness has caused frustration in the Labor Party. Internally in the Labor Party, the assessment is that it would strengthen Jonas Gahr Støre’s position if he were to get the other two party leaders involved in such joint initiatives.
– The Center Party is trying to distance itself from us, a central Labor source tells TV 2.
In the past month, frustration within the Labor Party has also intensified after Trygve Slagsvold Vedum in an interview with TV 2 refused to answer whether the Center Party will back Støre as a prime ministerial candidate.
Among other things, Vedum responded to a TV 2 question about whether he thinks Jonas Gahr Støre is a voter magnet:
– Jonas Gahr Støre and I work well together and he is a talented man, Vedum replied briefly.
Common front in 2005
The last time the Red Greens won the elections together in 2005, then-party leaders Jens Stoltenberg (Labor Party), Kristian Halvorsen (SV) and Åslaug Haga (Social Democrats) sat side by side and presented common policies.
COMMON FRONT: The then party leaders Åslaug Haga (Sp), Jens Stoltenberg (Labor Party) and Kristin Halvorsen (SV) during a press conference on common policy in July 2005. Photo: Terje Bendiksby
Before the 2013 elections, the Conservatives and party leader Erna Solberg also worked strategically to organize joint press releases and media appearances with the four party leaders from the bourgeois side in an attempt to appear together.
