Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg angered voters in Norwegian cities. He promised something the local Conservative mayor was unable to deliver.

This is a leader. The leader reveals the position of VG. VG’s political editor answered the leader.

These are not our words, but a direct quote from the incumbent Conservative mayor who doesn’t care about Solberg’s preposterous promises.

Let’s turn back time a little.

On the first day of June, the first day of the Conservative Party’s election campaign, Erna Solberg made her first promise:

Excerpt: “This is Høyre’s most important promise to citizens’ personal finances related to municipal elections: The rate of property taxes, municipal taxes and fees must be kept down when we get a mayor.”

This is what he told VG. This statement cannot be denied.

Control question from a VG reporter: “So this is your promise?”

Solberg replied: “Yes, it is.”

But at Aftenposten, Høyre’s former principal organ, said some Conservative mayors this week that this is an impossibility.

Like some Conservative leaders in our big cities – who have canceled what Erna Solberg called “the most important promise of the Right Party” – Conservative mayors in small towns in Norway have also said that what their party leaders and former prime minister is impossible to fulfill.

Erna Solberg vowed “to whip her local politicians into not increasing taxes, fees and levies over the next four years”. But The Conservative mayor’s answer that “growth in prices, the need for increased investment in water and waste and new EU rules making it difficult to fulfill promises to keep taxes flat.”

The extreme weather in recent weeks has especially highlighted the state of water and sewage in Norwegian cities. The need large investment in cable network and measures to address the massive rainwater problem, requiring significant investment.

Municipal water and sewage services must be self-financed. That is, residents a city that should invest in this area, must also take the bill. This means rising costs and higher water rates – despite Erna Solberg’s promises to make her people comply. Or should state payments?

Høyre’s well-functioning election campaign machine demonstrates that the party leader’s voter guarantee of lowering the city tax was not just an unfortunate mistake.

The country’s former prime minister knowingly and deliberately made promises aimed directly at the voters’ wallet to get the public to vote for Conservatives. Even he must have known this was a trick.

The election calendar has expired – even before election day.

City and county council elections are local elections in which citizens elect local politicians to represent themselves and their interests in the country’s 356 cities. Anything national politicians say to create buzz about their own party should be irrelevant to local politics.

But nothing like that. Important words. When the leader of the Conservative Party gives clear guarantees on behalf of the party’s mayor, then he must comply. he said Tinn’s far-right mayor.

At the same time, we know that it didn’t happen. Erna Solberg can promise whatever she wants in a municipal election campaign without being held accountable when Conservative mayors still have to add to the tax burden and drive up costs.

Støre’s reign has been labeled “the most unpopular of all time”. There are a lot of reasons for that. But there was no doubt that one of his ministers was a minister who might have contributed to the tarnishing of his political reputation, and had to resign.

If we don’t need that right now, then there will be more politicians going beyond their credibility and thus doubting whether we can trust what they say.

Erna Solberg shouldn’t have chosen those words.