– Now Nidaros is taken seriously – Dagsavisen

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By Peter Tálos and Linus Røvik Hauge

– It feels like recognition of the work we have done in Nidaros. That now Nidaros is taken seriously. We have a very large membership who are committed, 90 per cent of them are involved in political work for the first time. They must also be heard on an equal basis with all other members in Trondheim Ap, says Giske Address newspaper after the surprise deputy election on Saturday.

Giske was nominated by the election committee as a board member in the party team, but before the committee’s proposal went to a vote, the proposed deputy leader Marit Selfjord from Byåsen herself took the podium and suggested that she and Giske should switch places.

Criticized and made invisible

During the dramatic annual meeting that started on Friday evening with Gunn Elin Høgli having to go after a motion of no confidence, there were several who expressed that members of Nidaro’s Social Democratic Forum, of which Giske is the leader, feel like B members.

– There is a feeling that a team that has recruited 4,500 members to the Labor Party in two years is criticized by some and perhaps even made a little invisible by some. I think some of the members feel that, says Giske.

– I think the Labor Party’s way back is that we are a little more concerned with the voters and people’s well-being than we are concerned with the well-being of Labor Party politicians, says the former Ap deputy leader.

– Need a team like Nidaros

Marit Selfjord thought it would be wrong if the supremely largest local group in the entire Labor Party – Nidaros Social Democratic Forum – was not represented in the leadership of Trondheim Ap. Selfjord referred to Nidaros as a miracle in the Labor Party, and acknowledged that they felt poorly represented.

– A party that is on a steady course towards 15 per cent needs a team like Nidaros. I have a proposal, and that is that Trond Giske and I switch places on the setting. Nidaros will join the leadership of the Trondheim Labor Party, said Selfjord.

– I like to sit on the board, I like to sit as a board member, but I think that we should look after the members of Nidaros by showing them that we value them, she said.

Trond Giske ended up getting enough votes that the conductor didn’t have to count them. When the place as deputy chairman was ready, Giske received a standing ovation, but only from the part of the hall that had voted for him, writes Adresseavisen.

– Split party

Pål Sture Nilsen was elected a few minutes earlier as the new leader of Trondheim Ap. Alongside Giske, Jannicke Eriksen was also elected as the new deputy chairman.

Nilsen was thus appointed as the new manager after Gunn Elin Høgli had to leave the night before. The uproar also ended with deputy chairman Jørn Arne Flått resigning in an email to the election committee on Saturday night. He was therefore replaced by Eriksen.

– This is a divided party, and at the center of this division is Trond Giske, was Adresseavisen’s political editor Siv Sandvik’s spontaneous analysis of the situation in Trondheim Ap after the election was over.

Giske’s comeback is being discussed as part of his plan to return to national politics.

– The annual meeting was a demonstration of power from Trond Giske. He has all the power in Trondheim Ap and gets what he wants, says NRK’s ​​political commentator Tone Sofie Aglen.

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