Finance-Siv turns – no longer willing to violate human rights – Dagbladet.no

Finance-Siv turns – no longer willing to violate human rights – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Finance Minister Siv Jensen (FRP) Turns: She is no longer willing to violate human rights in Krekar case. This she said from parliamentary rostrum today.

– As Finance Minister, I can affirm that the Government Constitution and Norwegian law, including human rights law, the basis for their work, she said.

clearance came in response to a written question from the Socialist leader Audun lysbakken during parliamentary question time ordinary. He noted that Finance this earlier this month responded affirmatively if she was willing to violate human rights to put Krekar into custody.

– It is a startling answer. Respect for human rights is the fundamental distinction between the Norwegian authorities shall stand, and the fundamentalism that Krekar represents. Will the Minister change his answer, and with it confirm that the government is not willing to put human rights aside? sounding SV leader questions.

FRP Siv says on their

Siv Jensen clarification still came with a kind of prejudice. She stressed that she meets in Parliament as Minister of Finance, and that party leader Jensen still thinks it FRP has always meant.

– Our policies and our solutions remains firm. And based on what this case is about, so I want to affirm the two conditions we have always been committed. One is that dispatch decision shall be effected as soon as the conditions are right for it. And the second is that until shipment may be effected, we must have in place solutions that safeguard the interests of society, she said.

Lysbakken was not entirely happy with it:

– It is of great importance that we have a government that says two different things about his views on something as fundamental for Norwegian democracy as human rights. Therefore, it is especially about Jensen reserves the right to say one thing in parliamentary hall and something else outside, he said before he asked if the government is going to speak with one voice on human rights ahead.

– The government has one policy, replied Jensen before she quoted from FRP’s manifesto which states that the party of fundamental human rights.

– But Progress is also to address the new security challenges Norway and Europe faces and I hope at least that also Lysbakken is to find solutions for the sake of safety of citizens, she concluded.

– An embarrassed case

When minister met the press just after question time, she would neither answer yes or no if she is willing to break menneskrettighetene, something she has previously responded yes on two previous occasions.

– I think I have been crystal clear. We relate to human rights. Basic human rights tampers not with, she said.

Dagbladet turn Lysbakken stated that the Finance Minister answers are not particularly clarifying.

– It was an attempt retreat, which ended in embarrassing obscurity. An embarrassed matter for the government, he said.

It was like opposition politician in 2009 FRP leader for the first time made it clear how far she is willing to go in Krekar case.

– In outermost consequence I am willing to violate human rights to Mullah Krekar out of the country, she said to NRK TV news at the time.

In a TV 2 touches on January 16 held Jensen ie standpoint, when she responded cash “yes” to the question whether she is willing to “put human rights aside” to get set Krekar into custody.

In the aftermath, both Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) and Justice Minister Anders Anundsen (FRP) determined that Norwegian governments must follow Norwegian law, which also human rights are a part of.

Enshrined in the Constitution

Both the Conservatives and the Progress Party’s political platform and in the government agreement with the Christian Democrats and Left states that respectively government and the partners “will work for democracy and human rights.” Human rights are also taken into the Norwegian Constitution. Labor nevertheless have a written question to the Prime Minister Erna Solberg (h) where the justice committee chairman Hadia Tajik asks whether “the Prime Minister can assure that human rights are the basis for the government – and all ministers’ work. ”

That question, the Prime Minister handed over to the Minister of Finance to answer.

Krekar than while neither sent out of the country or out of the country. This week, Oslo District Court decide whether the decision to impose Krekar notification and forced stay in Kyrksæterøra in Sør-Trøndelag is legal or not.

FRP grassroots will violate human rights

A quizzing Dagbladet has conducted among FRP’s members and officers shows that a clear majority of FRP grassroots is willing to violate human rights in Krekar case.

Of the approximately 500 FRP-ers who answered the survey, answering 65.3 percent said they are willing to violate human rights to send Mullah Krekar out of the country. Only 23.1 percent are not willing to do this. The rest have responded “do not know”.

Ulf Leirstein, FRP’s justice policy spokesman, said the numbers primarily reflects impatience in the party, which he also shares.

– There is not a single person in FRP who are willing to violate human rights as they themselves understand them. But human rights law and, like all laws, subject to interpretation. That’s why we have courts. But if the starting point is the media’s black / white representation, which neither I share, so the answer is: Yes, he should have been sent out in the morning, he said to Dagbladet.