– I don’t think it is Trond Giske who delivers future solutions for the Labor Party, said AUF leader Astrid Hoem. – I do not disagree with anything Trond says. But I think Trond must recognize that he is part of the problem that many people find it difficult to talk about politics. On Wednesday, the party received 16.9 per cent in a November poll carried out for FriFagbevegelse, Avisenes Nyhetsbyrå (ANB) and Dagsavisen. Ap has never done worse in an opinion poll than in this November poll. – There is a crisis Trond Giske, who is the leader of Nidaro’s social democratic forum, was invited to the Debate together with several party colleagues in the Labor Party to discuss the bad figures. Giske has on several occasions criticized the party and called for greater action in the government. During Thursday’s debate broadcast, he repeated the criticism of his own party. – It is a crisis. It is important that we realize that it is serious. We have been through many crises in the Labor Party, but it had its explanation in individual cases. Now there is a deeper crisis of confidence, and this summer it was five years since Ap was over 30 per cent. There is a deep crisis of confidence that we have to do something about. It is not a matter of course that a party will survive, said Giske. Trond Giske during the Debate on Thursday. Photo: André Børke / André Børke – Strange AUF leader Hoem, however, strongly rebutted Giske. Gradually, the temperature rose in the exchange of words between the two. – It is about politics, but it is also about the fact that there have been very demanding times, with personal conflicts and other things. I have to admit as AUF leader that I find it strange that Trond is now trying to be a kind of leadership figure on the left, when I have been part of an AUF and Labor party where I have seen that he has gone against the most important issues of AUF, she said. – I think it’s primarily about politics, but when you look at the downward trend the Labor Party has had over time, I think there has also been too much unrest, and I think more people need to start taking responsibility there. – And that is partly due to him?, asked presenter Fredrik Solvang. – Including him. Trond Giske called the situation in Ap a crisis, but was criticized by AUF leader Astrid Hoem. Photo: André Børke / André Børke – Trenger ro Hoem further referred to Giske’s criticism as “stabbing at the management”. – I believe that we need calm to talk about the political solutions and I believe that we need more left-wing politics. Calmness in the form of him not consistently chipping away at the lead. – Do you think I should not say what 1,000 members think. Should we keep quiet and say: This is going well? We must be able to tell when something is wrong, Giske broke in. He believed that such discussions were unconstructive. – I think such discussions are very unconstructive, because when the Labor Party was at 30-40 per cent, we are broad coalitions. We are not just oil opponents or supporters. – We are both conservationists and industrialists. We are pensioners, workers and city dwellers. We are workers. It is when we are a broad coalition that gathers around basic social democratic values and talk each other up, that is when we become great. But if we are going to pick at each other and have internal wars, then we will be small. But we have to have an open discussion when we have 16.9 percent, he said, among other things. For the Conservative Party, the November poll is also the best since February 2013. The party gets a support of 32.3 per cent, which is an improvement of 2.1 percentage points from October. This means that the party is almost twice as large as the government party Ap.
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