– Chaotic. This is how Snorre Valen, editor of Trønderdebatt, describes the political situation in Trondheim after election night. It is the bourgeois side that has apparently had the initiative in the political negotiations in Trondheim after the election. Representatives from several parties have been observed together in a meeting room in Trondheim. On Thursday morning, the Conservative Party invited to a press conference about the polls after the local elections. There they announced that the Conservative Party, the Green Party, the Liberal Party, the Center Party, the Christian People’s Party and the Pensioners Party have now decided to enter into negotiations. – We have now jointly chosen to draw up an agreement where we start negotiations with the aim of obtaining a governing majority with me as mayor of Trondheim. The negotiations will start in due course, said Ranum. KrF, Sp, Pp, H, MDG and V had gathered to hold a press conference on further negotiations. Photo: Trond Odin Myhre Johansen / news Frp: – Sad Frp was not in the good company. They are disappointed by Høyre’s preliminary positioning, and do not support the collaboration they have outlined. – Our goal has always been two things: a new political bourgeois government in Trondheim and to keep MDG out of power. So we think it is sad that the Conservative Party chooses to walk away from the possibility of a bourgeois majority by joining forces with the MDG. That’s what Elin Marie Andreassen, Frp’s group leader, says. But the bourgeois parties still do not have a majority. INP has applied to the left In the capital of Trønder, you must have 34 mandates and the parties that have decided to negotiate currently count 33 mandates. The Conservative Party is therefore dependent on getting the FRP on board for a majority. And both MDG and Frp have rejected the possibility of working together. – Either the FRP must join forces with the MDG, but they have promised not to do that, or the MDG must change sides again and bring the Center Party along with them and, ugh, I can’t bear to take the whole line once, says a clearly disappointed Snorri Valen. Another possible partner for the Conservative Party would have been the newcomer Industrial and Business Party (INP), but they announced earlier in the day that they will enter into an electoral technical collaboration with the Labor Party. This means that they do not want to enter into a formal collaboration with the party and any others in a coalition, but that they will vote for Ap’s mayoral candidate Emil Raaen. – It is far from a majority for some of the mayoral candidates yet, and it will probably remain that way for quite some time, says Valen. Snorre Valen sees no clear solution in the near future for any of the blocks. Photo: Klara Skovro Thoresen Unfamiliar and chaotic – It’s almost as chaotic here as in Bergen. It is not exactly commonplace for those of us who are used to it already being clear on election night that Rita Ottervik is mayor, she adds. That’s what Siv Sandvik, political editor at Adresseavisen, says. She describes the political situation as unclear. Sandvik says that in a normal situation there would be enough parties to form a majority when a right-wing mayoral candidate manages to attract two parties from a red-green collaboration, and also has the support of several other parties. – But it is not. The Conservative Party could have chosen to include the FRP and INP, and put the MDG on the table, but that does not seem to be an option, says Sandvik. The political editor believes that it is currently Kent Ranum (H) who has the best cards in his hand. – Even if he does not have a majority, at least he has people who sit and talk to him, she says. Siv Sandvik calls the preliminary political picture unclear. Photo: Morten Andersen / news Demanding solitaire What about the left side, then? After the election, the red parties have kept a much lower profile and have been described as somewhat parked and waiting. The Labor Party will depend on getting its former partners MDG and the Center Party back, in addition to several others, in order to form a governing majority. But MDG has expressed that they do not want to cooperate with INP, which has given its support to the Labor Party. It will also be difficult to get Red and the Center Party to cooperate. – It was a very demanding result. It is parties that are in the middle and that have very low voter turnout, which will decide, said Mona Berger, mayoral candidate for SV, to news after the election.
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