– The Nordland Labor Party relates to us that the election committee has issued a unanimous recommendation, says county leader Mona Nilsen to news. In the setting she mentions, Kjersti Stenseng regains confidence as party secretary in Ap. – Bjørnar Skjæran made the deputy chair position available to help usher in a new generation, achieve calm around the elections and focus on the political issues. This is a starting point I believe should be towards the national meeting, says Nilsen. Towards the end of the work on the election committee’s proposal, Bjørnar Skjæran from Nordland was dropped as deputy chairman. It cleared space for both Tonje Brenna and Jan Christian Vestre as deputy leaders. At the same time, Stenseng gained renewed confidence in the management. But a unanimous recommendation notwithstanding: Re-election of Stenseng is not a given. As news has mentioned, forces in the party are now working to get former Labor deputy leader and Tana mayor Helga Pedersen to challenge Stenseng for the position of party secretary in Labor. Pedersen has not ruled out taking up the fight. – I will consider the question again if a situation arises that requires it, she told news yesterday. Mona Nilsen says that Nordland Ap is now concerned that the political issues should be in focus before, during and after the national meeting. – Now everything should be about how we will manage the country safely through challenging times, keep people in work, stop price growth and bring electricity prices down to a normal level, she says. The national meeting takes place on 4-6. May. The selection committee’s recommendation for the new central board of Ap Top management: Leader: Jonas Gahr Støre (Oslo) Party secretary: Kjersti Stenseng (Innlandet) Deputy leader: Tonje Brenna (Akershus, new) Deputy leader: Jan Christian Vestre (Oslo, new) Other members: Cecilie Terese Myrseth ( Troms), Marte Mjøs Persen (Vestland), Ingvild Kjerkol (Trøndelag), Terje Aasland (Vestfold and Telemark), Bjørnar Skjæran (Nordland), Ahmed Lindov (Agder, new), Kari Nessa Nordtun (Rogaland, new), Anette Trettebergstuen ( head of the women’s network), Peggy Hessen Følsvik (LO), Mette Nord (Fagforbundet), Jørn Eggum (Fellesforbundet), Tore O. Sandvik (Trøndelag), Per Vidar Kjølmoen (Møre og Romsdal), Masud Gharahkhani (Buskerud, new), Kristina Hansen (Finnmark new), Sindre Martinsen-Evje (Østfold, new), Raymond Johansen (Oslo). Split in the north But the statement from the leader of Nordland Ap brings the county team on a collision course with Troms Ap. Today, Aftenposten was able to say that Troms Ap, before the election committee presented its proposal, turned around and went in to demolish Stenseng. news has confirmed the information. And on Thursday last week, Vadsø mayor Wenche Pedersen went on news and stated that Finnmark Ap supported Pedersen as the new party secretary. But the county team was represented in the selection committee, which therefore unanimously gathered for Stenseng. RART: Vadsø mayor Wenche Pedersen said last week that she wants Helga Pedersen into the Ap leadership. Photo: Knut-Sverre Horn In return, Finnmark Ap has received a seat on the central board for county leader Kristina Nilsen. In addition, the other two northernmost counties are also represented, by Skjæran from Nordland and Cecilie Myrseth from Troms. – It is quite obvious that they have chosen to have three in the central board instead of going for Helga Pedersen. I find that strange, Pedersen told news when the election committee’s proposal was ready. – Forced through The surge in the committee’s work was dramatic, according to sources with knowledge of the work. TV 2 was able to report yesterday that the committee was split down the middle on the question of giving Stenseng renewed confidence for a new term. news has today confirmed this. One source with knowledge of the election committee’s work says support for Stenseng was forced through, and that there is now a rebellion underway in the party. PROPOSAL: LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik led the election committee in Ap, which before the weekend presented its proposal for a new central board and new party leadership. Photo: Rodrigo Freitas / NTB As news reported yesterday, Ap people in Vestfold and Telemark, Rogaland, Østfold, Innlandet, Buskerud and Finnmark – and from various parts of the Ap family – are now pushing to get Pedersen to stand against Stone bed. Stenseng has great support in Trøndelag and Akershus and in the LO system, which has great influence in Ap. But Pedersen’s supporters must also weigh up how much noise they want to make at the national meeting, by opposing the election committee’s proposal. If there is to be a contested vote at the national meeting, it can be taken for granted that it will be secret and in writing. Thus, the 300 delegates will not be bound by their respective county teams in the election. TRIO: Ap leader Jonas Gahr Støre together with outgoing deputy leader Helga Pedersen (right) and incoming party secretary Kjersti Stenseng (left) during the national meeting in 2015. Photo: Vegard Wivestad Grøtt / NTB
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