In most political parties is a matter of course and practice that the leader gets the safe spots on the nomination list to parliament. In some cases, even party leaders exchanged county to ensure safe parliamentary seat, as KrF leader Dagfinn Høybråten did when he in 2005 became a Member of Parliament from Rogaland.
National spokesperson for the Green Party are now considering doing the opposite.
– I am in dialogue with the election committees in both Oslo and Akershus where it is best for the party if I ask, says Rasmus Hansson Dagsavisen.
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Risk
In 2013 asked Hansson to choice from Oslo, and was MDGs sole parliamentary representative.
Also for next year’s election counted first place in Oslo to be a safe place for the green. However, it is highly uncertain whether MDG get into Parliament from the neighboring county of Akershus.
– Are you willing to risk a safe parliamentary seat?
– Yes, absolutely. I’ve never been out to get traditional choices. I think it’s more fun to bet than Seife, says Hansson.
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Lifting party
Nomination committees shall make their decisions in the autumn, and Hansson says he is in the tank without a preferred alternative.
The reason for replacing the county of Akershus has little that it is there Hansson resides, but most to do with Hansson think it could lift the whole MDG.
– In Akershus we are not far away to get a mandate. If I can contribute to our promises us, it will provide a gain for the party. It’s a chance to take, but I live well with.
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Advocates on top
Newly elected national spokesperson, Une Aina Bastholm, was in 2013 the second place in Oslo, and has been Hanssons deputies to Parliament.
– If you ask in another county to provide parliamentary seats Bastholm?
– I will not say anything about who will stand on top of Oslo chart. But it is no secret that Bastholm is the second party leader. She is a young and promising politician, so I sincerely hope that she will be put in a position to be elected to Parliament.
– Is there a point that not both spokesmen stand on the same electoral list?
– Putting both spokespersons on the same list, may not be what we first plan. It’s not me who decides, but I do not think that’s what we do first, says Hansson.
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Without space
Hansson stressed that it ultimately is Nominating Committee nominates, and the members of the nomination meeting who must choose his.
– Can you end getting no space? Say that you decline Oslo, and they nominate another candidate, but will not Akershus choose you?
– Firstly, the Akershus nomination meeting before Oslo. But yes, there is a risk. The I’m willing to take. I can not demand privileges, and it happens, I have to take the consequences of it, says Hansson.
Polls
At last year’s municipal and county elections, did MDG record good choice. In national average given the green 4.2 percent, which secured party space in a number of local councils, and most importantly of all power in the capital.
Since then no polls come MDGs favor.
The latest national polls show a MDG below the threshold of 2.5, 3.4 and 3.5 percent support.
– I’m not surprised that it has faded a bit of surrounding us. The agenda lately has not been climate, but refugees. Although we have a good policy for it, it is not we who get the most results in such cases. Recent measurements show nevertheless a slight increasing trend. On a measurement of August we lie about half a percent from the threshold, and it is a good starting point for a long requested. Our aim is to get over the barrier border and make a better choice than at the local elections, says Hansson.
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