Støre: Against forsvarsenighet between the Ap and the government – Daily

By Kristian Skårdalsmo

Støre asks the government and samarbeidspartiene the Left and the christian democratic party has “clean up” in the process around the 2017 budget, as the four bourgeois parties now negotiate.

– the Labor party and the coalition parties have come a long way, and I think we see a consensus about the main features of langtidsplanen. We have taken responsibility for it, for it needs the country. We can’t have wobbling around langtidsplanen for the Defense, ” he says.

– Between the coalition parties and the two samarbeidspartiene there is a disagreement about how they should handle the budget process for 2017. It can not we sit and help. Ap get the await that the four parties and the prime minister cleans up in it, add the Ap-manager to.

Army and HV

Støre left Monday morning after a short time a meeting with the other four parties, who were seated together to discuss next years defence budget. The negotiations on the forsvarsplanen touches namely the 2017 budget, which has complicated the process.

the Labor party and the coalition parties are now well on the way to agree to increase the scope of next year’s defense budget by 300 million and at the same time make omdisponeringer for 70 million, according to the NTB understands.

But to accept the increased scope, requires samarbeidspartiene influence over how the money will be used time. Key factors are increased the priority of the Army and the home Guard.

Continuing the conversations

When the four bourgeois parties left the room a little later on Monday, it is stated that negotiations are continuing.

– We have conversations both about langtidsplanen and the budget for 2017 in the defense. It is natural that the four samarbeidspartiene talking together, ” says the Conservative parliamentary leader Trond Helleland.

– We are working all the time with the aim of the widest possible settlement. It is, I hope, but it is of course challenging.

Hellelands colleague in the progress party, Harald Tom Nesvik, was on the line.

– We have good conversations to try to find a solution.

Left-requirements

Also Left-deputy leader Ola Elvestuen was prepared to continue the talks.

– Liberal priorities with the Army and the home Guard is evident, he says.

– It is, first and foremost, the four parties which shall adopt a budget. So it must of course relate to the langtidsplanen. There is a discussion about how it should happen.

Before the weekend to centrist parties have lined up behind the major investments that is Right, the progress party and the Labour party have been concerned about, namely the combat aircraft, surveillance aircraft, and new submarines.

in return, they should have set several requirements to the landmaktutredningen for the Army and the home Guard in the next year, among other things, that the home Guard shall be maintained as a separate forsvarsgren with a total of 45.000 soldiers.

centrist parties should have wished that the Army retains the mechanized brigadestrukturen. The proposal should also have contained requirements for the funding of the future and modernized the Army. (NTB)