Norway’s prime minister and opposition leader today protested a controversial decision by officials in the country’s fifth-largest city to accept only Ukrainian refugees.
Yesterday followingnoon, a majority of the city council of Drammen, a city of more than 120,000 inhabitants 40 kilometers west of Oslo, voted in favor of a measure aimed at accepting only Ukrainian refugees.
In doing so, the majority held by the Conservative Party, the populist anti-immigration right, the Christian Democratic Party and a small group representing pensioners defied the centre-left government’s warnings.
With information from protothema, Labor Prime Minister Jonas Gar Stere today criticized the measure saying it is “not legal”.
“This is not something municipalities can do,” he told public broadcaster NRK. “A core value is to ensure that people who flee are treated equally.”
According to the NTB news agency, the leader of the conservative opposition, Erna Solberg, from the same party as the mayor of Drammen, also stressed that “no municipality can choose that it only wants to accept refugees from a certain country”, even if it is not “unusual” to have preferences.
If the measure is not withdrawn, the Drammen authorities’ decision is likely to lead to the impeachment of the prefect.
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