– If SV is to be best in class when it comes to inclusion, we have to show it too, says Camilla Ahamath, who heads the party’s inclusion policy committee. – Marian Hussein has created history in the Storting as the first person with an African background and is an important and visible person for minorities, both within SV and abroad, she continues. PROPOSED: Parabaran Rajalingam says a unanimous working committee in Troms SV wants Marian Hussein as the new deputy leader. Photo: Anne Sofie Rønnfeldt / news A unanimous working committee in Troms SV also believes that Hussein should become the new deputy leader of the party. The Anti-racist group in Oslo SV does the same. – There are many skilled politicians with a minority background in Norway. We just have to bring them into the light! Marian Hussein has shown strength as SV’s health policy spokesperson and the party will show diversity in practice by having a person with a minority background in the leadership, says county leader Parabaran Rajalingam of Troms SV to news. – Role model 36-year-old Marian Hussein was born in Somalia and came to Norway when she was ten years old. She grew up in Stovner in Oslo. Hussein was a deputy representative in the previous period, but is now a permanent representative and SV’s spokesperson on health issues. – This support means an incredible amount and means that I have told the election committee that I make myself available, says Hussein to news. THE STORTING: Marian Hussein is SV’s health policy spokesperson in the Storting. Here with Aps Frode Jacobsen and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB Marian Hussein. Photo: Javad M. Parsa / NTB – Having grown up in a divided city like Oslo, where power and wealth are so unfairly distributed, gives me great motivation to apply for the post of deputy leader. We have many good statutes for representation in SV, but do not always manage to show it in practice, she says. Hussein has worked as a nursing assistant, environmental therapist, research assistant, in Nav and in the child welfare service. She has experience from the district committee in Gamle Oslo and has also been part of SV’s program committee. – If she is elected, she will be the first deputy leader in Norway with an African background. It is high time, says Ahamath. DIVERSITY: Leader Camilla Ahamath of SV’s inclusion committee believes Marian Hussein should become the new deputy leader of the party Photo: Leif Rune Løland – Marian is doing a great job as a health politician in the Storting. In addition, she has a background and experience that gives solid transfer value to all other minorities, she continues. Six candidates SV will elect a new leader after Audun Lysbakken at the national meeting later this spring. At the moment, one of today’s two deputy leaders, Kirsti Bergstø, is the only candidate to take over. Several in SV wanted fiscal policy spokesperson Kari Elisabeth Kaski as the new leader, but on Monday she herself stated that she is not currently eligible for a place in the party leadership. The labor committee in Troms SV wants Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes to continue as deputy chairman. But in addition to Fylkesnes, at least six new names have been entered into the election committee as candidates to take over the second deputy leader post when Bergstø moves up. RESIGNS: SV leader Audun Lysbakken is stepping down at the national meeting in the spring. Kirsti Bergstø is the only candidate to take over, while Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes is open to continuing as deputy leader. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB This applies to Storting representatives Ingrid Fiskaa, Lars Haltbrekken, Grete Wold and Freddy Øvstegård, in addition to Marian Hussein. Sarah Bell. Photo: Javad M. Parsa / NTB Also national board member and former leader of the Trade Union in Bergen, Sara Bell, has been proposed to the election committee as the party’s new deputy leader. She is today SV’s first deputy representative to the Storting from Hordaland. The selection committee’s recommendation must be ready by 1 February. The new party leadership is elected at SV’s national meeting in mid-March.
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