Disclaimer: This is a political post. If you’re not interested in politics (or not interested in Norwegian politics), please ignore it.
The date for the Norwegian general election is closing up fast, and I would like to urge my readers to vote for the Socialist Left Party (SV). The last chance to vote before the actual election day is, in many municipalities, tomorrow, the 11th of September. The actual election day is the 14th of September. Remember that every single vote counts!
We don’t need any dark blue experiment with our economy, healthcare or our children. We need a fairer government that works for equality, that takes the climate changes seriously and are prepared to act now rather than later, when it’s too late. We need a country where women earns the same as men, not merely 85% (avg.) of what a man makes and we need to treat everyone with the same amount of respect.
The economic crisis has shown us how bad it can get when we allow as much market freedom as we do. There are a few select people that gamble away at the stock market, keeping any earnings for themselves while socializing the problem if they experience losses. Norway has, largely thanks to SV’s socialist finance minister, managed the financial crisis very well. We need a market that is more controlled, not less! We can not allow capitalists to gamble away our jobs, nor can we allow the parties on the right to privatize our healthcare system, and by doing so throwing that into the same chaos that has caused the crisis we are now in.
If you want more information about SV’s politics, visit http://www.sv.no/ (http://sv.no/Language/English for English), or contact me directly and I will try to answer any questions you have.
For these reasons, and more (see the website), vote SV the 14th of September.
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As a Norwegian citizen, what is your opinion about http://www.democracyinnorway.net/ ? I received a call to sign this petition.
ReinoutS,
to be honest, I don’t see it as that much of an issue. The parties that have any chance of getting into the parliament are represented on NRK, the smaller parties can get air time on ‘Frikanalen’ (The free channel), and for instance the green party has been present during debates concerning the environment on NRK, though not as one of the primary debaters.
Now, I guess I may be biased here as my party is represented in the debates (but not allocated exclusive time, as in that suggestion – and neither is anyone else).
There is also the practical bit about it. The greens had a total of 3 636 votes in the 2005 election. If we should allocate exclusive time to them, then we should probably do the same to every other party, which would be a total of 11 parties if the requirement is to be represented in all counties, or a total of 24 parties if all that is required is running for government, where realistically only 8 parties have any chance of getting into the parliament. Last election the Red party (Rødt) mentioned on the site got 32 297 votes, the greens like I said got 3 636, neither got in. The party above Rødt godt 155 802 votes and /did/ get represented. This year, Rødt has a small chance to get into the parliament, and is thus represented. The greens does not.
In my opinion, this does not represent any kind of democratic issue. One has free speech, they have election booths and are represented in school debates, they can hand out fliers just like we do (I was up at 05:45 this morning to hand out fliers to the early commuters), there’s the internet, newspapers and who knows what else. I don’t think everyone with an opinion can be allocated time on TV.
What this boils down to is that I disagree, though I guess there might be better ways to solve it.