In the biography of Liv Signe Navarsete, which will be launched on Friday, it is clear that the message, which created a lot of media attention, has affected her afterwards. She realized that she was not taken seriously by the party. Nor did she ever get enough of an apology from the ten who had been on a cabin trip in Åre from where the message was sent. “If someone had called me then and caused, just one, I should have put it behind me. But no one made contact. Not a single one,” the book says. Not credible The crude message was sent from the Facebook profile of State Secretary in the Center Party, Morten Søberg. Navarsete himself has said that he was not the only one who sent the message. Søberg and nine other men – several with central positions in the Center Party – were at a cabin in Åre when the message was sent. Joining the cabin tour were, among others, current education minister Ola Borten Moe, defense minister Bjørn Arild Gram and former mayor of Stjørdal Ivar Vigdenes. Jens Kihl, culture editor in Bergens Tidende, has written the biography of Navarsete with the title I know what I’m talking about. Photo: Det Norske Samlaget “They cause the message to be sent, but they don’t know who did it. It feels like there has been a dialogue there, as everyone uses the same words. It simply doesn’t sound believable,” the book says. The report also states that Navarsete was on sick leave for 14 days. Ola Borten Moe has had several opportunities to respond to what appears in the book, but has not responded to news. Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram answers briefly that he does not wish to comment on any of what is written. Ivar Vigdenes doesn’t want that either. In the book, Liv Signe Navarsete claims that Ola Borten Moe broke an oral agreement he entered into with her to become a minister. Photo: Torstein Bøe / Torstein Bøe Diagnosed with trauma The book states that Liv Signe Navarsete was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. She received the diagnosis after a tough period from 2012 to 2014. At a seminar in 2012, she was blamed, among other things, for scolding Sandra Borch, who was then the leader of the Youth Centre. The reason was that Borch had written an article on the same day in which she expressed that deputy manager Ola Borten Moe would be a good candidate to take over the management after Navarsete. This created conflict in the party. “It was hard to concentrate. There was something in my body that I didn’t feel I was rid of,” says the former Center Party leader in the book. The book also reveals that it is still a mental and physical strain for Navarsete to talk about these events. Hevdar Borten Moe broke the agreement Ola Borten Moe receives harsh criticism in several places in the book. Navarsete claims, among other things, that he broke an oral agreement he entered into with her to become a minister. This was during the Stoltenberg government in 2011. Navarsete writes that she was initially negative about including him in the government. There was a great distance between them politically and Navarsete writes that Borten Moe was not particularly interested in district politics, something that was close to her heart. But many were enthusiastic about Borten Moe and believed that he represented important parts of the party. He therefore took her in for a conversation at the office where they discussed loyalty to the party and the government project. Life Signe Navarsete and Ola Borten Moe have had many discussions, here from 2012 when Navarsete was manager and Borten Moe deputy manager. Photo: Erlend Aas / NTB scanpix “Outgoing party” Navarsete also took up the party culture that she believes Borten Moe stood for. Especially if he was together with political adviser Ivar Vigdenes. She therefore demanded that Vigdenes had to quit as adviser. “The background for this was complaints I had received, which were about a lack of respect for the fact that one represented the Storting and the ministry, and about excessive partying. I had been with them so much that I had seen how they turned each other on. When you sit in a ministry, and especially in one as important as the Ministry of Oil and Energy, there must be seriousness in what you are doing,” the book says. According to Navarsete, Borten Moe accepted this and became the new oil and energy minister in March 2011. But Vigdenes did not go home to Stjørdal. The agreement they made was only verbal. She says she trusted that a word was a word, but that Borten Moe did not keep this promise. news has given both Ola Borten Moe and Ivar Vigdenes the opportunity to comment on what emerges about party culture in the book. While Borten Moe has not responded, Ivar Vigdenes will not comment on any of it. Disappointed at not becoming a minister In the book, it also appears that Navarsete was disappointed at not becoming a minister in the Støre government. She believes she was qualified and had worked the Center Party up as a defense party with great confidence. But here party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum wanted to let in younger forces, according to Navarsete. Jens Kihl, culture editor in Bergens Tidende, has written the biography of Navarsete. Navarsete currently works as a state administrator in Vestland.
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Former leader of the Center Party Liv Signe Navarsete speaks out about serious message in new book – news Trøndelag
