On Tuesday, Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg was the first to explain to the Storting’s Control and Constitution Committee about what she knew and should have known about her own competence. During eight years as Prime Minister from 2013, the man traded shares over 3,000 times. Solberg apologized and took self-criticism on several points: Solberg says that she would have declared herself disqualified in a number of cases if she had been aware of the share trading. In retrospect, Solberg sees that she could have done more to find out about share trading. She opened up that she would have had to resign if the share trading and the disqualification had become known when she was prime minister. The confidence in whether she can be prime minister is also relevant for the general election in 2025, believes Frp’s parliamentary representative and party veteran Carl I. Hagen. FRP wants to clarify “impossible situation” He says that it will soon be time for the Progressive Party, Venstre and KrF to decide whether they can stand behind Solberg as prime minister candidate. The parties collaborated to support the Solberg government from 2013 to 2021. – It is an impossible situation for the Conservative Party and Erna Solberg if she is not supported by the three parties in 2025, says Carl I. Hagen to news. Conservative Party leader and former Prime Minister Erna Solberg during the hearing on Tuesday morning. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB He believes that it is natural that confidence in Solberg is clarified after the recommendation from the Storting’s Control and Constitution Committee, which is expected well before Christmas. – The parties will have to conclude when the setting is ready. It can also happen in the actual debate in the parliamentary chamber, says Hagen. Conservative Svein Harberg, who, like Hagen, is a member of the control committee, sees no reason why the clarification on Solberg’s candidacy for prime minister in 2025 must be clarified before Christmas. – The Conservative Party sticks to what this case is about, namely the government apparatus’s handling of the competence regulations. Erna Solberg herself has said that she will clarify this well before the election, he says. Solberg: – Up to the Conservative Party During the hearing, Carl I. Hagen asked Solberg whether she thinks it is also up to the other bourgeois parties to decide whether she is the Prime Minister candidate in 2025. – It is up to the Conservative Party who is the Conservative Party’s candidate for Prime Minister. And then, of course, it is up to other parties whether they agree to it. In short, it has to be like that, Solberg replies. – What political consequences should there be if you have breached the competency regulations a number of times? Hagen asks further. – I think it is up to this committee to assess and not me. I would like to say that in the last eight weeks I have experienced a number of consequences, in the form of the strain it is to stand in such a case, she replies. Solberg was asked by three different members of the control and constitution committee whether she should have resigned if the share deals became known when she was prime minister. – It would have been a question on which the parties that stood behind the prime minister would have had to make a decision. It is a hypothetical question, but it would mean that one would have to deal with the fact that it could have been difficult to be prime minister at that time, says Solberg. – Should have asked and dug more Solberg used the opportunity during the hearing to apologize for what has happened and said that she is sorry that she has dealt with cases as prime minister where she has been incompetent because of her husband’s stock trading, which she did not know about. – When it subsequently turns out that he has nevertheless conducted extensive trade in secret, it is clear to me that I should have asked and dug more about this, she says. Audun Lysbakken (SV) tells NTB that he thinks Solberg’s answers are evasive about her own duty to investigate: – I still don’t think she is as clear as she should be that she has the political responsibility for the breaches of integrity. She refuses to say it outright, and it is important that it is said outright, it is about knowing that regardless of guilt and what you have known, the person at the top is responsible and must take responsibility, says Lysbakken.
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Hagen asks Frp, KrF and Venstre to clarify whether Solberg has confidence – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
