Listhaug spoke today to the party’s national board in Gardermoen. In the speech, she made important clarifications about how the FRP will behave in the event of a bourgeois election victory next autumn. – I further believe that our alternative should be an FRP/Høyre government, where it is the election result and significant political impact on our core issues that will be decisive for the FRP’s possible participation in a government after the election. Listhaug also raised the prime minister question. – For the FRP, it has been and will be natural that it is the largest party in government that will have the prime minister. We want it to be the voters who decide, she said. GOVERNMENT COOPERATION: Sylvi Listhaug wants to be in government with the Conservative Party. Photo: Anders Børringbo / news Not a good experience When it comes to the government issue, it is the experience from the years 2013 to 2021 that has shaped the discussions in the Frp. – We have experience from the government with the Conservative Party, and that experience was good. We made a good election in 2017 after 4 years in government and were re-elected, she said, before making a jab at her centrist comrades Venstre and KrF. – Our experience of governing with Venstre and KrF is not good. That’s how honest we have to be. There was too little impact and a policy that did not change Norway enough in our direction. Therefore, my recommendation is that our goal is an FRP/Høyre government. The Progress Party’s national board will now discuss the cooperation issue at the weekend, before a decision is to be made on the matter on Sunday. – Closer to 2025, we will discuss which issues we will prioritize in any negotiations, said the party leader. Civic cooperation If there should be a civic majority in the elections next autumn, the Progress Party will play a central role. And if there were an election today, there would probably be a change of government. In Norstat’s polls for news and Aftenposten, there has been a bourgeois majority for a long time. In the last survey in February, there is a solid bourgeois majority in the Storting, even with the KrF below the barrier limit. The share case surrounding Conservative leader Erna Solberg and her husband has led to questions about how the other bourgeois parties will relate to her as a candidate for prime minister in the event of a possible election victory in 2025. KrF pointed to Erna Solberg in January. The Liberals said they will wait for Solberg’s share case in the Storting’s control committee. Hours after Erna Solberg received strong criticism, leader Guri Melby told Aftenpodden that she supported a Conservative-led government with Erna Solberg as the natural candidate for prime minister. Already early on in the share case, the Conservative Party’s central board expressed full confidence in Solberg. FRP in government The FRP’s path to government was long and tortuous. For a long time, the other bourgeois did not want them with them. Under chairman Carl I. Hagen, the FRP said that the party would not support a government it was not part of. In the 2013 election, the bourgeois side won and the Conservative Party and FRP formed a minority government. They relied on a cooperation agreement with Venstre and the Christian People’s Party. In January 2018, the government was expanded with Venstre and was then called the “blue-green” government. In 2019, the government was expanded with the Christian People’s Party. The first bourgeois majority government since 1985. On 24 January 2020, the Frp left the government, following a disagreement over the repatriation of an IS woman and her child. – Can’t be naive Listhaug used large parts of the speech to attack the Støre government. The world has become a more dangerous place, and the FRP will not accept that a new defense plan becomes a savings plan, states FRP leader Sylvi Listhaug. Listhaug is now speaking to the party’s national board in Gardermoen. Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she began by demanding a strong strengthening of the Norwegian defence. – Although there is nothing to indicate that Norway will be attacked directly in the next few years, we live in a time and with a neighbor that means we cannot be naive, Listhaug said. The government will come up with its new long-term plan for the Armed Forces just before Easter. – What is an oil fund worth NOK 16,800 billion if we don’t have freedom? Nothing. – That is why the FRP demands that we invest oil money in our own defence! Because without freedom we are nothing. Norway must as soon as possible strengthen the Armed Forces and build up our military combat power in line with what is expected of us.
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