The new party has been named Det norske industriparti (DNI). – Let’s make an improved version. A kind of version 2.0. That’s what Waltherzøe says about the new party to news on Monday. As early as Monday evening, it became clear that the local team in Stjørdal is reporting a transfer from INP to DNI. Local team leader in Stjørdal DNI, Ann Elisabeth Monsen Éli, is satisfied with the transition to the new party and the party leader: – If we make a proposal, he listens to it. Photo: Morten Andersen / news – We will follow Owe’s policy and we feel very comfortable with him as leader. That’s what Ann Elisabeth Monsen Éli says, who is now the leader of the first local team of the Norwegian Industrial Party in Stjørdal. – The new thing now is that we go from words to action. Now we have chatted and almost argued about where the comma in the articles of association should be for over a year, adds the party leader in DNI. According to him, about half of the central board of the old INP is joining the project. The “coup” Facebook group Waltherzøe has also changed the name and description of INP’s Facebook group with more than 52,000 members. The group was called the Industrial and Business Party, but has been renamed the Industrial Party. According to the new description of the group, it now applies to the Norwegian Industrial Party. – The group created Waltherzøe before the party was founded, as a blog according to him. That group is what he has had all along. That’s according to the county leader in Vestland INP, Torvald Håvardstun, who says it’s messy to change names. The INP has its own page on Facebook and has now created a new group under the name “Industry and business party (INP)”. The former INP leader has changed the name of the Facebook group to the Industrial and Business Party. Photo: Screenshot from Facebook Resigned as leader of INP It’s only been a few days since Waltherzøe resigned as leader of INP after internal conflicts. – The tense and irreconcilable situation in the Industrial and Business Party makes it necessary for me to step down as party leader with immediate effect, he wrote on Facebook. In recent years, the party has gone from being a marginal party to making several measurements that place them above the blocking limit of 4 percent. Last autumn, INP representatives were given seats in municipal councils in several places in the country. Waltherzøe now entices with free membership in the new party. – From 2024, membership with us will be free. – I tempt you with it because very many of those who have paid dues into the old Industrial and Business Party will be allowed to come over to DIN without having to pay dues again, he adds. – Will never be peaceful in a political party Waltherzøe that what separates DNI from INP is that the new party will orient itself more towards the center than INP. “Unfortunately, the Industry and Business Party has taken a right-wing turn that has not been desirable at all,” he says. In addition, the party leader says that DNI must go from words to action with the center-oriented values of the new party. – We must have “no to wind power” and “no to the EEA agreement”. The oil and gas industry in Norway will get up and running again, he adds. Waltherzøe says he has learned a thing or two from the internal conflicts in the INP. – All parties have their things, so it will never be peaceful in a political party. But this time we are going to be very careful about who we take with us, what kind of background they have and so on. We have learned very little. Similar politics in INP and DNI Acting leader of INP, Joar Nesse, says he does not recognize Waltherzøe’s description of the party. Neither does the county leader in Vestland INP. – We clearly say no to all wind power and we believe we will develop the oil sector, we will not shut it down. It is essentially the same thing he is now moving on to, says Håvardstun. Håvardstun has sent out an information letter about the situation in the party to all members in Vestland INP. Here he points out that it is not politics that has been the reason for the split, but Waltherzøe’s leadership style. – There is no unrest in the leadership of the INP today, after the former party leader left the party. Last night there was a national board meeting in INP and Håvardstun describes that it was a good meeting. – There was no unrest, there was great agreement and unanimity on most things. The atmosphere was good and everyone is ready to continue working. The first thing INP is working on is to regain control over e-mail addresses, website and account because Waltherzøe still has control over that. – We don’t have access to the account, he sits on that. Whether he intends to give it up or not, I don’t know. So we are getting control of what belongs to the party, which he would not give up, says Håvardstun. I don’t think the new industrial party will take root. Rogaland is among the counties where the INP has been strong. Leader Jan Inge Selvik in Rogaland INP says it was a big surprise when Waltherzøe announced his resignation. Nor was Selvik prepared for him to form a new party. – It surprised me a lot, because it was not at all in the drawing that it would happen. I don’t quite understand where he is, says Selvik. In Rogaland, only 30 out of around 1,700 members have opted out, according to Selvik. He believes many people are sitting quietly in the boat to see what happens in the future. He also has no faith that the newly founded party DNI will be able to take root properly. – I doubt that they will be able to submit a list for the next election. However, Waltherzøe strongly disagrees with this. He believes it is the INP that will face challenges. – Frankly, I think the Industrial and Business Party is going to get lost in internal squabbles. While we in the Norwegian Industry and Business Party are going to show that we are the serious part that is going to go into the general election.
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