FRP deputy chairman Hans Andreas Limi was dissatisfied with Høyre’s timeline. Solberg should and could have done more to get a general picture, said Aps Rigmor Aasrud.
– The Conservative Party timeline provides little new information. We are none the wiser from this and there are still some unanswered questions. “This does not change the substance of the case which is a violation of integrity,” Limi wrote in an email to VG.
On Tuesday evening, the Conservative Party published a chronology of the shares scandal.
– Does not matter Erna Solberg who was responsible even though he had been deceived by Sindre Finnes. The FRP still believes that it is natural for Økokrim to consider investigating this case, because we are also thinking about the case of Anniken Huitfeldt, he continued.
Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg came under huge pressure after she told of her husband’s share purchases.
The party was accused of withholding information about Finnes’ affairs until after the election. The Conservative Party rejects this.
Limi is worried that the large number of negative cases against politicians could weaken the trust of all parties.
– This is dangerous for our entire system of democratic governance and leads to humiliation of politicians. FRP believes the matter must now be cleared up so that trust can be rebuilt in the long term, Limi wrote.
– It is very important for the control and constitutional committees to get answers to the unanswered questions, both in the Solberg case and in all other ongoing competency cases, he added.
– Should have done more
APS parliamentary leader, Rigmor Aasrud, believes this is “a comprehensive and serious problem for the Conservative Party and Erna Solberg.
– The timeline doesn’t show anything new, but it seems clear that Solberg should and could have done more to get a general idea of the man’s stock trading. The deputy leader of the Conservative Party admitted this morning that the list could have been drawn up more quickly. New and serious questions continue to be raised in this case, wrote Aasrud in a short message to VG.
– The important thing is that everything is answered well, both from the public and of course what will later come from the control committee at the Storting. “In the committee, we will focus on getting answers to all relevant questions about competence, also since Solberg’s time as prime minister,” he wrote.
– Has political responsibility
Audun Lysbakken, SV representative on the Storting Control and Constitutional Committee, believes there are still unanswered questions:
– We must be confident that election winners share the information journalists request as soon as they receive it. “If the timeline confirms this, we should now take the time to evaluate,” he wrote in an email to VG.
– As far as I can see, there is at least one unanswered question in today’s Conservative Party publications: Couldn’t an overview of stock transactions be done sooner, and what are Erna Solberg and the Conservative Party doing to get that information? was it delivered as quickly as possible? he continued.
Now the control committee must survey the extent of the disqualifications during the period Erna Solberg was prime minister, Lysbakken believes.
– There is no doubt that he bears political responsibility for the disqualification, although he is not personally at fault and we all sympathize with the situation, he wrote to VG.
– Challenges credibility
Venstres Grunde Almeland also has some unanswered questions. He is the spokesperson for the Control and Constitution Committee summer and fall eligibility case processing.
– Transparency is essential for people’s trust in politicians in general and Solberg and the Conservative Party in particular, he wrote in a text message to VG and continued:
– Credibility and trustworthiness are challenging because the story has to be corrected in some way, and that the media is constantly highlighting new aspects of the case.
Almeland wrote that the control committee would meet early next week and discuss the answers they received from the government, and discuss the shares scandal in the Conservative Party.
– I understand that the public is still questioning this particular case and its handling. Solberg and the Conservative Party will have to answer for themselves. For control committees, what is relevant is to look at clear violations of professional integrity and the circumstances that specifically explain those violations, Almeland wrote and added:
– For me, as the integrity case hearing officer on the committee, and for the Liberal Party as a party, it is very important that we get answers to all the outstanding questions, both in the Solberg case and in other integrity cases in government.
Erna Solberg said in connection with the publication of the timeline that she should have confronted Sindre Finnes earlier.
– This is ultimately Erna Solberg’s responsibility. She herself admitted that she should have confronted her husband early on. He’s absolutely right, says political editor Hanne Skartveit at VG.
– Misleading the population
Rødt leader Marie Sneve Martinussen was unimpressed with the Conservative Party’s timetable.
– I’m getting none the wiser from this list. The crux of the matter is that stock trading and impartiality were not taken seriously during the Conservative Party’s reign, and this timeline confirms that they did not do so in the election campaign either, having taken a tough and dark stance towards the current government, Martinussen wrote. and added:
– The consequence was that – regardless of whether there was any fault or not – the leader of the Conservative Party misled the public immediately before the election, he wrote.
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