Trøndelag’s Labor Party is the world’s most grounded enigma.

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Even those of us who grew up there in the heart of Trønder – and are familiar with the culture, ways of thinking, language and ignorance – struggle hard to understand what is really going on in Trøndelag Arbeiderparti.

The regional team is by far the biggest, many would say the most prestigious. Every sixth member of the Ap is in the Trøndelag Ap.

There were many chiefs: Tranmæl, Nygaardsvold, Gjærevoll, Guttorm Hansen, Bjarne Haakon Hanssen, Giske, Kjerkol – a few mentioned, many forgotten – and an Ap without Trøndelag properly on the team is an Ap with great gaps and deficiencies in body and spirit.

Ap has ruled the only town of Trøndelag of proper size, namely Steinkjer – sorry Trondheim – almost since Erling Skakke, as the saga claims, fell there in 1179. More specifically at Kalvskinnet in what was then Nidaros, in a battle in which the regions faced each other, and the outcome paved the way for Sverre Sigurdsson to become king of the country – perhaps the most important Norwegian crown bearer of the mythical Middle Ages.

In autumn, there may be a change of power in the city, but those who are alive will see it. For Labor to lose Trondheim is like the Conservatives lost Bærum.

Trøndelag and Trondheim have their own logic. It seems simple and straightforward, but in fact it is incredibly complicated, almost incomprehensible. Tronder is player – sneaky power players – who stayed with the power center instead of showing a hint of envy towards it, as other and more progressive parts of the country like to do.

But have pity on the central power that went out with them, Trønders.

At least as complicated as this game between factions in the Middle Kingdom. North faces south, but not always, and sometimes unity is more important than competition, at least it seems. In Trondheim you look down on the country folks a bit, at the same time Trondheimers run out of homes when the country singers in DDE are in town begging their incomprehensible big hitters for anyone but Trondheimers.

District club Rosenborg is the entire football team of Trøndelag and Hainn Åge from the small sawmill town of Namsos 20 miles north of Nidaros Cathedral is as honored and respected among the regular table conditioners in Palmehaven as he is among the robbers in Beitstad.

As I said: Trøndelag is something in and of itself.

The power struggle that emerged (or how to describe it) between Trøndelag leader Aps Ingvild Kjerkol and the Trønder Party’s ousted, but never dismantled, high-ranking Trond Giske, fits this seemingly simple, yet incredibly complex pattern.

For Kjerkol, the ambitious health minister and former district council leader in the old northern district, said instead that non-Trønder members of Giske’s fast-growing team will have to calculate when delegates will be distributed to the district’s annual meeting and then the national Ap meeting. But this required changes to the bylaws, which experienced APS association members took lightly. Giske himself answered as curtly as only someone from Trønder player can: “This will be decided at the annual meeting.”

Giske’s team, the “Nidaro social democratic forum (yes then)”, which almost exploded in membership growth was both a mare and a blessing for Ap which was experiencing storms from all sides, simultaneously and continuously. More than 3,000 are now there, including Hainn Åge himself, who describes the team as “active and interesting”.

But half of this is listed as belonging to a place completely different from Trondheim and the other gigantic regions, which stretch from Oppdal in the south to Leka in the north.

That this should have any influence over Trøndelag Ap is certainly a delicate matter, and it’s easy to see that Kjerkol doesn’t want to let national Nidarosing tip the scales when positions must be filled and a way forward must be made. ready.

But to conclude from the fact that Kjerkol and Giske are, to one degree or another, opposites in this great Ap drama that concerns everyone, is also a rush. For even if he now marks a certain distance from the impetuous and increasingly strong-willed earl of accusation, and in that way takes a kind of party with the party leader and Prime Minister Støre against Giske, it is not given that that is the correct understanding. about what really happened there, in the heart of Trønder krå.

For when sources are consulted, and the balance of power is attempted to be worked out, there is tactically justified murmuring and gossip, for no one knows precisely who supports whom, and which alliances prevail at any given time. At least no one will say so directly.

Because that’s how Trøndelag is – where dangerous excitement and light confusion reign. Trønder’s people know power and they know how to use it. The whole country should take note of this, and perhaps especially in the Labor Party, without Trøndelag it would be almost nothing.

The drama continues, in other words. There’s no telling where and how this will turn out, but it’s important to be on a team with Trønder’s people – or to include people from Trønder in the team.

Støre may be fully aware of that, but he and the rest of the party’s leadership may struggle to really penetrate what really happened there – and which of them, of Trønder’s people, had the strongest card when it really happened. therefore.