A united red-green opposition agreed on this in a meeting at Oslo City Hall on Tuesday morning. Group leaders and cultural politicians from the Labor Party, SV, Rødt and MDG participated in the meeting. The background for the mistrust is Anita Leirvik North’s handling of the cuts at the crisis-hit Oslo Nye Teater. IN MEETING: Central city council politicians gathered to decide whether or not they have confidence in the Høyre’s cultural council. In the foreground is APS’ cultural policy spokesperson Eivor Evenrud. Photo: Olav Juven / news – Hårreisende – In our opinion, it is hair-raising that the city council proposes drastic measures with irreversible effects without investigating the consequences, says Rødt’s group leader Siavash Mobasheri. Group leader Marthe Scharning Lund from the Labor Party believes that the city council has neither received good nor correct information from the city council. – She has broken the municipality’s principles for good corporate governance. She has broken the city council’s guidelines for proper investigation of cases. And we also believe that she has withheld information and misled the city council, says Lund. BREACH OF BREACH: Marthe Scharning Lund and the opposition believe the city council has broken several principles and guidelines. Photo: Rolf Petter Olaisen / n13964 City council leader: – Full confidence City council leader Eirik Lae Solberg (H) says that he has full confidence in Anita Leirvik North and that she is doing a very good job as councilor for culture and business. – It appears that the motion of no confidence is due to a disagreement about the level of funding for Oslo Nye Teater. It is part of the budget proposal put forward by the entire city council, he says. THE WHOLE CITY COUNCIL IS BEHIND: City council leader Eirik Lae Solberg stands behind the culture council. Photo: Alf Simensen / news Høyre: – Unserious Acting group leader in the city council, Mehmet Kaan Inan answers more fully on behalf of the Høyre. – This is a totally frivolous no-confidence motion from the opposition and a game for the gallery. To promote distrust based on a political disagreement about priorities is to dilute the institution of distrust, says Kaan inan. He believes that North has handled the situation in Oslo Nye Teater very well. – She has made sure that they got extra grants to get through the financial trouble they were in this summer, says Mehmet Kaan Inan. DEFENDING THE CITY COUNCIL: Group leader for the Liberal Party, Haakon Riekeles, and acting group leader for the Conservative Party, Mehmet Kaan Inan. Photo: Hallgeir Braastad / news – Oslo municipality and Oslo Nye Teater are both in a demanding financial situation which makes restructuring necessary. It is a shame that the opposition prioritizes political games, says group leader for Venstre in Oslo, Haakon Riekeles. – I fully understand that the necessary restructuring is demanding for all employees at the theatre, and freelancers who have assignments there, but Oslo municipality cannot continue to have greater expenses than income, Riekeles continues. The opposition rejects that it is about politics and maintains that it is the handling that means they no longer have confidence in Anita Leirvik North. – Damaged their own theater – The city council has been the opposite of a responsible owner. She has damaged her own theatre’s reputation and opportunity for earnings, says SV’s group leader Sunniva Holmås Eidsvoll. She adds that the matter is particularly serious because the Culture and Business Council is responsible for Oslo Municipality’s ownership of 33 enterprises and companies. SNØFALL: Snøfall 2 is Oslo Nye Teater’s big pre-Christmas effort. Johannes Joner, here in the role of IQ, is one of the actors who has fronted the protests. Photo: Lars Opstad Cut support for the theater In the proposal for the Oslo budget presented in September, the city council cut support by NOK 40 million. This means that the theater has to make do with NOK 53 million next year. It has provoked strong reactions in the opposition and created an uproar in Kultur-Norge. – Terrible to see that the city council wants to kill and destroy our home. That’s what actress Ane Dahl Torp said when she held an appeal during one of many protests against the city council. Accused of breaking the rules, the Norwegian Actors’ Association has delivered a formal notice against North. They accuse her of abuse of authority, irresponsible corporate governance and breach of laws and regulations. On Monday, it became known that Anita Leirvik North will partly come to the theater’s aid. Then Avisa Oslo wrote that the city council will say yes to the 35 million Oslo Nye Teater has requested. However, 25 of the millions is a loan, while 10 is an additional grant. – If we get a satisfactory conversion plan, then we want to give them ten million in operating funds for 2025, and a loan of 25 million for conversion, North told the newspaper. Unclear about majority It is unclear whether there is a majority in the city council against no confidence. The cooperation parties Fremskrittspartiet and KrF will discuss the issue at their group meetings on Monday. Independent representative Lars Petter Solås says that mistrust is out of the question. – If I had to find something to criticize city councilor North for in the case of Oslo Nye, it is that she has not gone far enough in the cuts, says Solås. Published 12.11.2024, at 11.11 Updated 12.11.2024, at 15.19
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Motion of no confidence against cultural councilor Anita Leirvik North – Stor-Oslo
