For a long time, the Storting has asked for an answer to whether the Minister of Justice has had TikTok on his service phone. Mehl has not responded to this. Yesterday she confirmed this to TV 2. Ministers are obliged to answer the Storting correctly when they receive questions from the politicians there, without withholding information. The Conservative Party and the Progressive Party are not convinced that Mehl has done this in this case. – It is stupid that a minister of justice, who is responsible for the Security Act, has installed TikTok on the service phone. Everyone can make mistakes, but the mistake she has made in addition is trying to mislead the Storting, says Solberg to news. Denies that Mehl has misled the Storting Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) denies that Mehl has tried to mislead the Storting. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Photo: Alf Simensen / NTB – Now this is well known and that is what is important. She has followed the advice she has received from the Ministry of Justice and I think she has done it in a proper way, says Støre to news. – So she has not misled the Storting? – No, by no means, says Støre. Listhaug will summon Mehl Frp leader Sylvi Listhaug is not satisfied with the answers and warns that the Minister of Justice will be summoned to the Storting next week. – It is, of course, whether she has followed through on this information obligation that she has to the Storting, by failing to answer this. And of course this with the guidelines from the National Security Authority, which here seem to have been broken, and to which we also want answers, says Listhaug. FRP leader Sylvi Listhaug. Photo: Kai Rune Kvitstein / news Has she misled the Storting? – In any case, she has failed to answer questions that the Storting has asked, and then there is reason to ask that question, whether she has failed to inform the Storting in the way she should have done, says the Frp leader. Støre: Confident that she has handled the case correctly He says he is confident that Mehl has handled the case correctly. – She is following the advice she receives from the Ministry of Justice and it is a ministry that knows this situation well, so I am confident that she has done it in the right way. Also, this is a phone on which you do not have secret and confidential conversations or other connections, says the prime minister. The Minister of Justice has explained that she consulted the Ministry of Justice before installing the Chinese-owned app on the service phone. At the same time, she familiarized herself with the advice on the use of service telephones. – It then became clear that there was no advice specifically aimed at TikTok. There is no advice that one should not download that particular app, says Mehl to TV 2. Støre says he is confident she got the advice she needed.
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