{"id":33973,"date":"2023-02-16T05:15:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/people-have-lost-trust-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T05:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T05:15:21","slug":"people-have-lost-trust-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/people-have-lost-trust-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"– People have lost trust – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lundteigen offers chocolate when he receives news in his office at the Stortinget. It happens at the same time that the current debate boils over – not only in the news, but also among his own party colleagues. – Someone has lifted stones and squirmed away, and people have lost confidence in the government’s handling, says the SP veteran. – It’s a brutal sentence? – Yes, but that’s what most people say to me. We chose to have stable, predictable prices. We should have a competitive advantage in electricity, and we should have national control over security of supply. And we don’t have that now, he says. When asked what he hears from people at the grassroots in his own party, the answer comes straight: – They are both pissed off and disappointed, and it is completely unreal. Sp went out of the Syse government on the Industrial Licensing Act in his time, and this matter is much, much more important. We have not gone to the polls on the high-price policy that is practiced today, continues Lundteigen. Per Olaf Lundteigen is one of the most experienced politicians in the Center Party. Here from the comeback at the Storting in 2005. EU opposition has been a running tone throughout Lundteigen’s political career. Here from a demonstration in connection with the EU summit in 2001. A young Sigbj\u00f8rn Gjelsvik on the left. At the time he led No to the EU, now he is municipal minister for Sp. A number of party leaders have led the Center Party during Per Olaf Lundteigen’s time as an active politician. Here together with then leader Anne Enger in 1995. Per Olaf Lundteigen in a debate against the Labor Party’s Jens Stoltenberg in the election campaign in 1995. Per Olaf Lundteigen at home on the farm in \u00d8vre Eiker in 1993. Per Olaf Lundteigen was an ardent champion of the red-green government project. Here with Magnar Lund Bergo in SV and Reidar Sandal in Ap during a press conference at the Storting in 2009. They were a radar couple in the control and constitution committee for a number of years. The Labor Party’s Martin Kolberg and the Center Party’s Per Olaf Lundteigen. Conservative veteran Michael Tetzschner was also part of the committee. Per Olaf Lundteigen has in many contexts spoken critically of the leadership in his own party and government. His outspoken style has both irritated and excited the Center Party. Take action Last night, the government presented changes to the electricity subsidy scheme. The main move is to calculate support based on consumption hour by hour, rather than as a monthly average. – It is a goal for the government to have more stable electricity prices for people, said Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp). But there will be no maximum price, and electricity support of 90 per cent will only be available when the price goes above 70 \u00f8re – historically a very high level in Norway. VAT also comes on top of the electricity price. GREP: Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re and Terje Aasland presented changes to the electricity subsidy last night. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell \/ NTB The big question is therefore whether the latest moves are enough to calm the mood in their own ranks. Lundteigen does not think so: – This is a positive decoration of the current system. It does not reduce inflation through lower electricity prices, which is very important for the upcoming wage settlement. The Sp top will instead have a maximum price of 70 \u00f8re and “a careful regulation” of the cables to the continent. – There must be a balance between imports and exports when you have a low filling rate, he says. – This solution must be combined with a reduction in the price of electricity for all end users in Norway, down to 70 \u00f8re per kilowatt hour, says Lundteigen. Vedum announced yesterday a new committee which will assess which measures can ensure electricity users lower and more predictable prices within the scope of the EEA agreement. – We do not hold any more selections. All stones are turned. What is missing is action, Lundteigen retorts. – St\u00f8re is “married to the system” On Friday, Finance Minister and Center Party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp) will “come home” to one of his harshest critics, namely Per Olaf Lundteigen. Then there is the county annual meeting in Buskerud Sp. – I expect that he will say what he thinks, and then the annual meeting will say what we think. Then there will be a solid debate, says Lundteigen. He believes Vedum and the Center Party must be hard on each other and persuade the Labor Party and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re to change course – Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re has married the system that gives German electricity prices in Norway. He will not change his position without the Center Party putting the iron poles in the ground and saying here we must have a different policy. Lundteigen believes the government is on a full collision course with its own government declaration, the Hurdal platform. – Concretely, the Hurdal platform says that we must have a competitive advantage in electricity. This means in good Norwegian that the prices in Norway must be lower than in Germany. Then we have to organize the market so that it happens, says Lundteigen. CRITICAL: People have lost confidence in the government’s handling of the electricity price crisis, says Per Olaf Lundteigen. VETERAN: Lundteigen receives news in his office at the Storting. GATHERED: On Friday, Lundteigen opens when there is a county annual meeting in Buskerud Sp. – If we can’t do it, then we have to take the emergency solution and write down the price over the national budget so that the reality is the same for all businesses and all private individuals in Norway, he continues. The SP veteran with more than 21 years behind him in the Storting believes that European energy cooperation is about to become even closer, which means increased demand for Norwegian power – and higher prices. – This is not something that goes away. It’s going to go from bad to worse if we don’t get a system change. MEETING: Party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum is coming to the annual meeting in Buskerud Sp on Friday. Photo: Berit Roald \/ NTB Presset Vedum Earlier this week, SP mayor Saxe Fr\u00f8shaug in Indre \u00d8stfold was also out with demands: Electricity should not cost more than 60 \u00f8re, was his message. – The high electricity prices we have had now for over a year are not something we can live with over time, says Fr\u00f8shaug, who is also head of SP’s mayors’ network. CRITICAL: Mayor Saxe Fr\u00f8shaug in Indre \u00d8stfold. Photo: Stein Ove Korneliussen \/ news At the annual meeting of \u00d8stfold Sp last weekend, a resolution was passed stating that the scheme with electricity support for business is “not nearly good enough”. If the prices in the future do not meet SP’s goal of stable, predictable and competitive prices, “the government must implement a far more comprehensive electricity support scheme,” it said. But the government has repeatedly rejected the maximum price for electricity. The most important arguments against a maximum price are that it can lead to people not saving on electricity, and thus in the long term threaten the security of supply. – I think the maximum price is a bad solution, said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re (Ap) recently to news – and at the same time also defended the foreign cables. Lundteigen, the second oldest member of the Norwegian Parliament, had his first term in the Storting in 1993 – and reminisces about the time when he sat together with Erna Solberg on the finance committee. Today, he is the second-oldest representative in the National Assembly, only “beaten” by the Progress Party’s veteran Carl I. Hagen. – Why are you so disappointed with the way your own party has handled this? – It is because we are very strong in terms of national control, and then we have a price system for electricity that is completely market-based. He believes the handling of the electricity price crisis explains “the vast majority” of the brutal fall the Center Party has experienced in the opinion polls after the election. EXPLOSION: The electricity debate has taken off in Norway after the change of government. Photo: Kristian Sk\u00e5rdalsmo – People from the Center Party have been close to this throughout the years, so we have a very practical relationship with it. We were to develop an electricity system in Norway that benefited business and private individuals, and which was an advantage compared to other countries. For Lundteigen, energy, power and affordable electricity prices go to the core of the Center Party’s project and programme. – You have been with the Center Party for a very long time. How important is it for the party to land on its feet in this matter? – It is absolutely crucially important, because this is Norway’s biggest and most important competitive advantage and something we have invested hundreds of billions to achieve. We have sacrificed one seat valley after another. This is part of the Norwegian folk spirit, says Lundteigen.
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