Together with the two new deputy chairmen, Jan Christian Vestre and Tonje Brenna, he meets news in Slottsparken, just a short stroll away from the prime minister’s residence. The APS leadership troika believes the Conservative Party and Erna Solberg have gotten away with criticizing the government’s use of oil money in the revised national budget far too cheaply. – They can register their cards. Because it is an honest matter to want to spend money in a different way. But if they think that we have been too generous, then they can point out where to give less money in the current situation, says Støre to news. – So your brief request to Erna is? – Show the cards and say where you want to cut. It’s an honest matter – then we’ll have a discussion about it! Erna criticism Also in the Storting, the Conservative Party and Erna Solberg have pointed out that the government talks differently about the use of oil money now than last autumn, when the message was that the national budget had to be tight to curb price growth and interest rate shocks. Much more money will now be spent in the revised national budget, NOK 56 billion to be exact. The time for what is defined as safe economic management is obviously over, Erna Solberg stated when she recently criticized Støre in the Storting. STRIKES BACK: Prime Minister and Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre believes the Conservative Party must explain better what they want to spend less money on this year. Photo: Mats Rønning / news But Støre hits back: – We are still putting forward a tight plan. What we are doing now is paying for absolutely necessary bills, says the Ap leader, and continues: – If we hadn’t done that, taxes would have to be increased sharply. Or cut welfare, lay off people in hospitals and the police and schools. We don’t want that, he says. Deputy leader and Minister of Knowledge Tonje Brenna follows up: – If we hadn’t spent any more money in the revised national budget, we would have ended up with a budget plan that was too tight, meaning we had to start making people redundant, she explains. – Our plan is responsible, Høyre’s plan is currently unclear. They must say where they intend to cut if they neither intend to raise taxes nor spend more oil money. RESPONSIBLE: The Labor leadership defends increased use of oil money in the revised national budget – and wonders where the Conservative Party intends to cut. Photo: Mats Rønning / news – It’s not tight On an election campaign tour in idyllic surroundings in the Rosendal Kvinnherad municipality in Vestland, Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg shakes her head at the criticism from the Labor leaders. She reminds that all the Conservative Party’s priorities will appear in the financial proposal to the Storting on Tuesday. – They know very well that it is just spin they are doing, says Solberg. But she already states that the Conservative Party will have reintroduced the much-discussed ABE cuts, i.e. de-bureaucratisation and efficiency in the public sector. Erna Solberg is on an election campaign tour in Western Norway. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo Yesterday, Erna Solberg met the day service for the demented at Torvholen farm in Klepp municipality. There she was shown around by Marit and Arthur Salte. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo Yesterday Erna Solberg visited the Q dairies in Sandnes. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo – But do you want to cut schools, welfare or hospitals? – In our alternative budget, we allocated more money to hospitals than what the government is doing now. And she strikes back against the Ap leadership’s description of history. – There are quite a few billions they spend on measures that are their own political priorities, while at the same time they say that it is very tight. It is not tight, and we have a record high proportion of the public sector in relation to the private sector, says the leader of the Conservative Party. Solberg also points out that the crisis situation has sent taxes up to a record level in 2023. – Then I think it is possible to make the budget a little more sober, although it is important to ensure that the public works well. She is supplemented by deputy chairman Henrik Asheim: – Not all bills must be sent to companies or families. That is why we have proposed more money for the hospitals, but also increased child benefit for families with children, he says. IDYLL: Right-wing leader Erna Solberg and deputy leader Henrik Asheim were given the all-clear on day two of their Westland tour. Photo: Trond Stenersen / news – We have lowered income taxes on the lowest incomes to help private families and businesses cope with the everyday life they face, emphasizes Henrik Asheim. Above all, it is Ukraine support and compensation for the police, hospitals and defense for the violent price increase that has been the government’s explanation for the extra 56 billion oil. Solberg acknowledges that the Conservative Party will not spend less on Ukraine and price compensation than the government, but adds: – They forget that there is almost NOK 7 billion for things that do not concern Ukraine and the price increase. – Does not take responsibility This week it also became clear that the Conservative Party is outside two cross-political settlements in the Storting – on the salmon tax and offshore wind. Støre believes this says something about Erna Solberg and the Conservative Party in opposition: Lack of responsibility. – Responsibility is something you have to take. You have to show that you stand for it. And the fact that we have a fair taxation of industries that are doing very well, it helps to finance our welfare state, says the Prime Minister. – And the offshore wind investment is a new major energy chapter. It does not get off the ground by saying that it is for the market to fix itself, says Støre and attacks the Right’s refusal to settle: – I think it is not taking responsibility. We will be staying again. Minister of Industry and Labor deputy leader Jan Christian Vestre agrees: – I think withdrawing from these negotiations will be almost the same as when we started the oil and gas business in Norway. And say that at the starting line you should not join. I think that is evidence of a Conservative Party that is “will not, will not”, instead of helping to find responsible solutions for our country. Solberg hits back at the offshore wind criticism: – It is the government’s responsibility to invite good, broad compromises and move in such matters. And this government has not moved. On the contrary, they give us a permanent solution, she says. The salmon tax was passed last Wednesday – without the Conservative Party on board. – We were willing to go to great lengths, but they were not willing to go so far that it was possible to find a common compromise.
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