– If you slaughter the cow, you don’t get any milk. And that’s the problem with politics now. People are being scared out of the country, said Frp leader Sylvi Listhaug when the salmon tax was the topic of the party leadership debate from Fiskepiren in Stavanger. – You are more concerned with fighting those who create value than fighting poverty, she continued. Ap leader Jonas Gahr Støre was not impressed by Listhaug’s tax attack. – It is not possible to answer that, it is an incoherent series of arguments, said the Prime Minister. He added that he was prepared for opposition to the salmon tax and that he was proud of what the government has presented. COWS AND MILK: Sylvi Listhaug (Frp) believed that the current government is unnecessarily scaring the business world. Photo: Øystein Otterdal / news – Nonsense But the government’s claims that the salmon tax makes daycare cheaper, Conservative leader Erna Solberg would not sign up to. – It is nonsense to say that the money from salmon goes to lower the price of kindergartens. It’s a big budget. You could just as easily say that it is possible not to streamline the public sector, said Solberg and continued: – You could say that it is possible to create new counties and dissolve the municipalities, all the other things they prioritize in that state budget. TULL AND TØYS: Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp) and Erna Solberg (H) debated taxes and welfare. Photo: Øystein Otterdal / news Sp leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum answered bluntly: – The right has always been on the wrong side. They did that when there was a hydropower discussion at the start of the 20th century. The FRP was also on the wrong side in the 70s when there was talk of the oil adventure and the taxation of it, said SP leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum. – There will be a slightly smaller dividend for the salmon owners. Then those who do nappy changing get a little more money. It is classic political prioritisation, he continued. – Bombs and grenades Frp leader Sylvi Listhaug also ended up in a clinch with SV leader Kirsti Bergstø, in one of the evening’s many secret duels. The topic the two were presented with was immigration policy. – There are bombs, grenades, murders in the open streets because they have taken in far too many people than they manage to integrate, said Sylvi Listhaug (Frp) about Sweden, and what she has described in many contexts as “Swedish conditions”. SV leader Kirsti Bergstø said she feared that the same would happen in Norway, if the Frp’s economic policy prevails. – Because what we need are good leisure activities and schools that see all children and pupils. That we have an economic distribution that enables people to participate in working life and have security in housing and welfare. If you don’t get that, you also get riots, said Bergstø. – Honestly, it is the worst fantasy story I have ever heard, Listhaug replied and went on: – The FRP has ensured control of immigration to Norway in a completely different way than before. We cleaned up the biggest migration crisis this country has ever had. Thank God that SV had no hand on the wheel at the time. Clash about wind power Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) ended up in a debate about wind power with Rødt leader Marie Sneve Martinussen. Because while the Labor Party allows for more wind power in places where the host municipalities agree to this, Rødt says no to development, both on land and at sea. – We must prioritize the power we have for people and processing, and oppose electrification, which only moves emissions, not cuts them. For a hundred years, we have built society on clean and cheap hydropower, said Rødt leader Marie Sneve Martinussen. – It is not smart to stand still, Marie, said Støre and continued: – The problem with Rødt’s approach is that they argue as if society is standing still or going backwards. Because in the future we will need much more power – for two reasons. We must cut emissions and develop new industries. The duels The first duelists were Guri Melby (V) against Arild Hermstad (MDG). The topic the two politicians debated was cruise traffic. – The problem is that the cruise industry is now investing in huge, large new cruise ships with 80,000 passengers. It is impossible to create a socket large enough to make them a zero-emission ship, said Hermstad. Olaug Bollestad (KrF) and Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) met for a duel over independent schools. And Erna Solberg (H) and Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp) dueled for shops open on Sundays. During the last main theme of the evening, the parties were challenged to discuss how Norway can solve the desperate shortage of labour. Hammered away against free bus The party leader debate was opened with transport policy as the theme. In Stavanger municipality, the Labor Party and the cooperation parties have introduced free public transport. – It is certainly nice to do that if you have everything else in order. I think we should prioritize being there for the weakest, said Erna Solberg (H). Sylvi Listhaug (Frp) showed a newspaper cover from Stavanger Aftenblad about the elderly. – Today in Stavanger Aftenblad we could read that the elderly here in the municipality are lying in their own urine and faeces. I think the vast majority will agree with me that it is more important to secure these services than free buses, said Listhaug. NEWSPAPER COVER: Sylvi Listhaug (Frp) used the start of the debate to show off a newspaper cover from Stavanger Aftenblad. Photo: Øystein Otterdal / news She added that people all over the country miss the time when the Frps’ Ketil Solvik-Olsen was minister of transport, but received direct feedback from Rødt leader Marie Sneve Martinussen: – If it smells like asphalt, then you get a little grumpy in the head. And it may seem that the FRP’s transport policy is a bit like that. FRP’s precision project Nye Veier AS should be called Dyrere Veier AS, because it devours billions, increases emissions and reduces topsoil, she said. The party leaders’ last appeal to the voters The last part of the evening’s party leader debate was the politicians’ appeals. Here, each of the party leaders was given time to speak directly to the audience in the hall and the viewers at home. Venstre leader Guri Melbye said that she could well understand that it was easy to become discouraged in difficult times: – But it is also in such times that we need a strong and vibrant democracy. Now we have to stand up for the values we believe in, both internationally and locally, says Melbye. Sylvi Listhaug (Frp) followed up, and used her appeal to ask a series of questions to the voters: – Ask yourself the following questions: Have you gotten better since the last election? Have you got better finances? Are you confident that you and your loved ones will get the help you need when you need it? Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre pointed out that he ate ice cream with kindergarten children in Sarpsborg earlier this week. He was there to talk about one of the government’s many budget leaks in the last week before the election. The Prime Minister calls both nursery prices and new nursing home places the Labor Party’s political values. – All those who will be elected on Monday share these values, and they must put them into practice. So think about this: You will therefore have to choose whether we will together take responsibility for safe societies, education for the youngest, opportunities for the young, and security for the very oldest. Rødt leader Marie Sneve Martinussen used her speaking time to compare her own policy with the policy of the Conservative Party: – That’s enough talk now, we need action in the face of Norway’s differences. We should not have food queues in a welfare state. Kirsti Bergstø (SV) came up with a humorous twist: – Election day is the only day where the ballot paper wins over the banknote, said Berstø with a twinkle in her eye. Arild Hermstad (MDG) asked voters to close their eyes and think about their dream society in his appeal. He highlighted several of the party’s core issues, and asked the viewers to vote for the MDG if any of these coincided with their dreams. – You get a fair distribution, you get a business community that is future-oriented and will be so for a long time to come, promised Hermstad. KrF leader Olaug Bollestad said that unfortunately she could not adopt an extra hour a day. But she wanted to make sure that there was time for the most important things, and made time for the youngest and the oldest in the community. Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg used her appeal to criticize the bureaucracy in Kommune-Norge. – We want to find smarter solutions so that you don’t send even more bills to people’s homes, now that many people have difficult and difficult finances, says Solberg. Started with the Tore Tang Mods song from 1981, Tore Tang is alive and well at parties around the country. Before the party leader debate in Stavanger, both politicians and the public sang the classic with varying degrees of emotion. Olaug Bollestad (KrF) led the way. The Labor Party has struggled in a number of polls, but on Friday received a huge boost in Stavanger: Mayor Kari Nessa Nordtun (Ap) is likely to be able to make a rare turnaround in the oil city. The party leaders warmed up by singing the Mods classic Tore Tang with the audience before the debate. Photo: Øystein Otterdal / news
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