He settled with Trump. In English. He was proud of the Pride flag. He wants to negotiate with Støre and smile more to voters. It was as if party leader Arild Hermstad opened the national meeting to a party that had come out of the closet. MDG has spent four years figuring it out with itself. It has been about learning from your own mistakes. So now it’s about avoiding doing new ones. For crass. For ultimate. Too much doomsday message. Without answers about who they support as prime minister – who, after all, is important to some voters to clarify. MDG’s radical, uncompromising style has attracted a church, but undoubtedly also supported many. Maybe enough for the party to be 1721 votes on the wrong side of the 2021 barrier. New profile four years later there is another message Hermstad comes out of the closet. The party retains the soul, but the profile is new: MDG will be able to cooperate with a government and will negotiate with Støre first. MDG will be a clear counterbalance to the outer right. It is a clearer message than block addiction and ultimatum. Now MDG turns its back on the right because Frp has grown too big. The environmental, nature and climate party MDG will not only talk about the time after the oil age and decrease the natural loss. MDG will raise redistribution policy as a third main theme in the election campaign. Concrete cases such as the increase and taxation of the child benefit and the national monthly card for public transport. MDG proposes a national monthly card for public transport of NOK 499. A concrete, positive and redistributive climate solution, believes the party that has named the scheme “Norgeskortet”. It is possible to read it as a greeting to Aps “Norwegian award” in the power policy. Photo: Brynjar Myrtveit Osgjerd / news In the oil policy, MDG has a more comprehensive, long -term plan for oil phasing – no longer one specific end date. In response to doomsday criticism, it is the positively angled “It is possible” message (MDG’s italics) that is the rebranding’s superior Slogan. The party that has been known for the problem description should talk more clearly about solutions. New path to the goal, new political measures and new core messages. But the main cross line is not new, it is only much clearer in Hermstad’s message. MDG is not only confident in what they are, but so much what it is not. MDG is woke and proud! MDG is for pride, trans, climate struggle, solidarity and the EU! We’ll see if the back hill gives a riot. Now Trump, Listhaug, increased defense grants, tougher crime policy, more climate criticism and aid cuts in the wind. MDG should be a very clear counterbalance. The Environment Party is on an identity policy line of conflict to mobilize. They remember how the toll election campaign in 2019 gave them headwinds. While many struggled to find other solutions and be the strongest critical of tolls, MDG would give the boom a hug. It worked for its use at that time. The municipal elections that year gave them 6.8 per cent of the vote nationally, more than 15 per cent in Oslo where they became the third largest party and re -elected in the city council. Woke and proud Hermstad on stage with attacks on KrF’s decision to ban the pride flag in Norwegian school yards. Photo: Cornelius Poppe / NTB The joke lives on MDG is like a watermelon! A little green on the outside and a lot of red on the inside. It has alternately acted as a joke and an argument for years. The label is no more difficult to understand with new input. But it’s not quite noticed. MDG is not traditional left. MDG’s prime ministerial elections, distribution policy, tax profile (in the name of the climate) and the view of the public sector makes it easy to place them as a center-left party. But the party has meant to be able to cooperate on the blue side, as it does in Trondheim and in several places. MDG does not appear less red after the weekend’s national meeting, but will not call itself a socialist party. They are most concerned with a different dividing line than the one between the left side and the right side. The Environment Party is concerned with the distinction between green and gray. Or the line of conflict that combines green, alternative and liberal politics on the one hand and traditional values, “authoritarian” approach and national independence on the other. MDG is the opposite of Frp, KrF and the Center Party. That can be said about the Left too, but MDG will support a Støre-led government. SV and Red who are on the left is not the eager EU party that MDG is. The Greens are also critical of economic growth as an ideal, more radically than the traditional left side. Struggling with the spirit of time when MDG is clearer than ever on who they are, the question is rather whether the clarifications come late. The timing of an environmental party was undoubtedly better in the years 2019-2021 when the climate issue had a different crisis understanding and value among voters and competing parties. At that time, many voters left their old parties and voted on MDG to give the climate case a vote and protest against parties that over time had not done enough to resolve the climate issue. MDG still has radical environmental, natural and climate policy, preserved. But over the last ten years, the other parties have also adjusted and implemented a lot of climate policy. Voters will experience a more positive, but still radical climate party. Photo: Lars Nehru Sand / news The reason for voting MDG is perhaps the same, but the reason for leaving another party has been significantly changed. A key question then becomes whether MDG has the spirit of the time in its side in the fight against the barrier. It does not hold a sharp profile in questions voters do not think are as important and who may not affect the party elections, although you can nod to the message. The dream is to finally break the barrier and come to the Storting with a “proper” parliamentary group of at least seven representatives. Rasmus Hansson became historically as the party’s first representative in the Storting in 2013. In 2017, the support increased, but not the parliamentary group. In 2021, the party received 3 representatives, but still just under 4 percent support. Over time, support for the Green Party Environment Party 0 % 2.5 % 5 % 7.5 % 10 % The graph shows the Green Party’s support in news’s polls from Norstat over the last four years. Right now, it seems that MDG does not get to experience further growth in the autumn elections. The party strategists believe the party is better rigged than ever if you look at the membership and activity level. If you look at the social debate, the news picture and polls, it is tougher than ever for the party. Although the party’s assumptions are better, it is still more difficult to succeed. MDG has found itself and urges an identity policy settlement. Strategy change makes sense. But it is asked if it does for many enough voters. MDG refused to stand in a picture with this watermelon. Photo: Lars Nehru Sand / news Published 10.05.2025, at. 07.57
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