– Look! We can like this! Høyre’s Mathias Bernander flips through Norstat’s new party poll in Kristiansand. Here, the Conservative Party’s city council group is more than twice as large as the Labor Party’s. The Conservative Party is clinging to more than 30 percent support, similar to several recent polls. – A very good track report on the way into the election campaign. And I see a bourgeois majority with the traditional parties, says Bernander, and mentions both KrF, Frp and Venstre. CONTINUING FIGHT: – A solid declaration of confidence from Kristiansand. But from sports I know that we have to play until the whistle blows, says Mathias Bernander. Photo: EIRIK DAMSGAARD / news – Tired of chaos Kristiansand city council is about to put four hectic years behind it. The 2019 election was a protest election. Since then, 18 out of a total of 71 representatives – or one in four – have changed parties, according to a count in Fædrelandsvennen. Bernander sees several reasons why a light blue tornado could hit Kristiansand politics in September. – We get help from national trends. In addition, I think people are tired of political chaos. Kristiansand can do so much better than what we have shown in the last four years. NOT UNEXPECTED: Mayor Jan Oddvar Skisland (Ap) and political adviser Jannike Arnesen are not surprised by the June poll. – But this could once again become a demanding city council, says Skisland. Photo: Eirik Rognaldsen / news – Can be demanding Today’s mayor Jan Oddvar Skisland (Ap) would like to see Kristiansand Ap higher. The party falls from the 2019 result of 18.3 to 13.8 in news’s June survey. He allows Ap to pay for all the corruption in local politics in recent years. – It may well be. It has been messy and unclear. But we took responsibility in a demanding situation after the last election, he says. Skisland believes that the label political chaos becomes a “tactical game” from a Conservative Party in the wind. – It has been an untidy landscape, but we have, after all, dealt with more cases than ever before, says Skisland, who believes that the next city council term may also be difficult. – It may look like the Conservative Party, KrF and Frp fall just short of a majority, and are dependent on cooperation with others. In that case, this can become demanding. Kleppe is in Political commentator at news Lars Nehru Sand believes that a lot of tension is linked to how many Conservatives may have to be included in a new collaboration. – The Conservative Party wants another majority with KrF and Frp. They don’t have that in this survey, says Nehru Sand. Thus, it remains to be seen who will find each other after the election. Because the mix of small parties is also changing. Vidar Kleppe gets a seat on the city council with one mandate from Kleppelista, while Nils Nilsen’s Sørlandspartiet does not reach the top in news’s poll. Both the Pensioners’ Party and the Conservative Party (formerly the Christian Party, editor’s note) are in with two each. CONTINUED PROTEST: – There is still a will to protest left in politics in Kristiansand, with many small parties, says news’s Lars Nehru Sand. Photo: Per-kåre Sandbakk / news Upswing for SV Nehru Sand notes that the bourgeois side is still split up with small parties in Kristiansand. The survey gives a total of four mandates to the Conservative Party, the Norwegian Democrats and Kleppelista. – It is also interesting to see that on the left, SV is doing well, while Ap is unable to lift itself up, he says. – Can the survey be read as a reaction to political unrest and party changes? – Only partially. The voters spread over many lists, including parties that are not among the clearest in promising secure governance, says the commentator. For the parties with less than 3 per cent in the measurement, the margin of error is stated at 1-1.5 percentage points.
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