Can be a collaboration with Frp in the Storting – NRK Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
There is no red-green majority without SV, says Audun Lysbakken, who leads the smallest of the largest parties that I could have ruled.
But SP mayor Jan Ove Tryggestad does not agree. He believes there are obviously advantages to being able to cooperate also on the right in the Storting – even though the party went to the polls to replace Erna Solberg and the blue gang:
“By all means, there must be a majority in the big, important issues – and I think the current new government with the Labor Party and the Center Party will find a majority with several parties in the coming parliamentary term,” says Tryggestad.
Want a tighter economic policy
The SP mayor believes that Norway now needs a political majority for a tight economic management of the country, to save the aftermath of the pandemic.
– We have had a turbulent phase in the Norwegian economy. We can find a majority where there is a real majority for a stable economic policy in the years to come. That said, it is not just the Conservatives who can be a relevant partner there.
Tryggestad believes it is important to see how other parties can position themselves for possible cooperation.
– I think we get and quite exciting Storting in this period.
– Vil we now see a more downtown government?
– Yes, I hope so and I think so. Since there are two parties that now choose to go over in full, I think it will be a government that wants to absorb more of the center politics than we would get with a three-party government.
Lysbakken: Warns against downhill skiing
But SV’s party leader Audun Lysbakken warns the Labor Party and the Socialist Party against swinging from side to side in the Storting.
– I would strongly warn against downhill skiing. Then this becomes a form of center-right government, and those who support it forget that this government is being created due to a red-green majority.
He believes that both Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre and Social Democrat leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum are wise to remember that they need SV to get a majority for a change of government.
– Then it would be completely unnatural if this government should often go to the bourgeois side to get a majority. That is simply not what the voters have asked for.
Clear room for cooperation on the right
However, it does not scare Tryggestad from thinking aloud about possible majority friends in the Storting.
Tryggestad does not exclude individual parties as possible partners – although the lines of conflict against the Conservative Party are clear in many cases. He points in particular to EU and EEA issues as a clear conflict.
– Both Rødt and Frp are the only ones with the Center Party in several cases. Can one look for more untraditional majorities in the new Storting?
– Yes, I do not look away from it. At least in transport, there is nothing to hide – that the Center Party and the FRP cooperate reasonably well in the districts – we can not rule out that there may be a possible solution.
Tryggestad most importantly, however, that he does not see the Progress Party as a new fast partner in government cohabitation.
– We do not want to look at it as a party that we will cooperate with in the long run – but in individual cases there is clearly room for that as well, Tryggestad says.
But Tryggestad is clear on who has the power to negotiate – and what demands of the other parties in the Storting that want a breakthrough:
– So I think the Conservatives are also necessary to adjust if they want to influence politics in the period.