– I think it should be possible to vote for what they are for and against what one is against, without saying yes or no to a whole package. Then we check the voters which parties stand for the proposition, says Helge André Njåstad (FRP) Dagsavisen.
Njåstad manage municipal committee in Parliament which will consider proposals for tightening as immigration minister Sylvi Listhaug presented earlier this winter.
The proposals are a follow-up of the asylum compromise in the Parliament, all parties besides SV and MDG stood behind.
Options Strategy
Njåstad is quite open about this strategy is also intended to frame labor.
– I hope Ap join the largest possible tightening and that they vote for our proposal. But if they do not, even though they were involved in the settlement before Christmas, so it’s important to show voters that the majority party wobbling in asylum policy once again. The voters must note, so they do not put Labor into government offices in 2017, said Njåstad.
Should Njåstad get their way, putting FRP Labor in a dilemma: Votes Labor Government’s proposal, the party will face sharp criticism from smaller parties, which are potential partners in 2017, and that will not go as far as the government. If Labor votes against the government’s proposal, the FRP hoe on them for not having a strict immigration policy until election day in 2017.
– Is there a “trap” for Labor?
– Jo. If they go away from being on our line as they were in December and think otherwise in June, it will be the result.
– Why is it important to show who believes what?
– This is the main issue in Parliament this period. It only makes sense if we showed which party has which point, he said.
FRP veteran Carl I. Hagen supports the play:
– All of the government’s proposal must be voted on in Parliament. Let the party get the pleasure that we can enumerate the proposals Labor has been down. It does the party in the election campaign, he said from the rostrum.
Different plural
List Haugs proposed austerity measures have met opposition from several parties. Left rejected all 40 proposals, while Labor and Christian Democrats have spoken out critically about some suggestions that residence requirement for permanent residence and changes in requirements for family reunification.
Njåstad is not afraid that his strategy can lead to the other parties gather and form a majority against the Progress Party’s proposal.
– Let’s say that Labor believes our proposal is for tightening and promoting something that is milder. We would then hope to get the majority of our point using KrF, Left or Sp. But if it falls, we must consider voting for the Labor proposal secondarily. FRP will consider all proposals from the other parties and vote for what we are, and to what we are against. If our proposals are falling and there is a second best proposal – so we will vote for it, he explains, adding:
– For us, it’s about to get a majority, not broad majority. Is the majority, it’s good enough. Then there will be cutbacks.
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Viewing cards
The committee has only just begun to manage the list of Listhaug. The Committee shall submit its report in late May, and then the proposals adopted in Parliament in June.
Njåstad believes that it is time that the other parties now show their cards:
– It is only government parties who have submitted proposals on the table. Now should the other parties tell what kind of austerity measures they will have to consider their suggestions as well, he said.
Njåstad says he has aired his idea with the other parties in Parliament, and that it is well received.
– I have discussed whether we can treat this as an ordinary komitésak, where we go in and out of ideas, instead we will vote on a package. I perceive that the other parties are comfortable with it. The main thing is that the case will be discussed openly in the parliamentary hall, rather that one agree on something in a confined space, he said.
Breeds of FRP control
Labour Party Helga Pedersen reacted strongly Progress tactics:
– We’re not there yet that we plan how this will be voted on in Parliament, but this says everything about the FRP and the consequence of that we have a populist party in government: They put party interests ahead of the nation’s interests.
– It’s outrageous that they will use this issue to political game before the elections in 2017. I expect the prime minister now tell your FRP about what is expected of a ruling party, says Pedersen Dagsavisen.
– But will Labor that it be voted on each proposal?
– We consider the proposals individually, but also look at the overall picture, says Pedersen.
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Allegiance Lifting
Yesterday ended FRP their congress at Gardermoen. Here they adopted a resolution on immigration and border control, where the party including requests that Norway should take the initiative for a review of the Schengen Agreement and Norway, if necessary, should be outside the EU quota system for refugees and Turkey Agreement.
Progress also believes that asylum seekers who disappear from refugee shall lose the right to asylum and the Norwegian citizenship can only be granted after obtaining pledge allegiance to Norway.
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