I guess you can’t call the Moderates a clown party either. After all, they don’t go around with red noses and big shoes.
But one can eventually conclude that the Moderates are a failed party.
The scandalous cases were lined up even before the election – so far three members of parliament have been thrown off the bus – and now there is another one of this kind.
A personnel matter that concerns a poor working environment, sexual harassment and bullying at the government party’s secretariat. The case is made particularly interesting by the fact that the brand new digitalization minister Caroline Stage Olsen is also under indictment.
The severity and exact circumstances are still unclear.
Member of Parliament Jeppe Søe finds them so serious that he demands an impartial investigation into the conditions at the party office in Christiansborg, but party chairman Lars Løkke Rasmussen believes that conversations with an occupational psychologist must be enough.
It will probably end up with the psychologist model, and possibly not much else. Good enough, Søe insists that an impartial investigation must be carried out, but that is unlikely to happen.
Because with the Moderates, there is someone who decides, and it is not the hitherto otherwise incredibly loyal Søe.
It is, of course, party founder, party chairman Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
The moderates is his party, and therefore the validity of the project was questionable right from the start.
The purpose has always seemed to be only one: to get Løkke back into the center of power.
He did, and since then the chairman’s interest in the party and MPs has been low.
The trust in the latter is understandable, and it is obvious that Løkke does not rate their abilities highly. The party has six ministerial positions, but only three of them are elected by the people.
Only Løkke has chosen the latter.
It is completely legal, but it is not democratic. The voters voted for the Moderates, but now have two ministers who, not so long ago, represented other parties, and the ordinary members of the Norwegian Parliament feel overlooked and badly treated, which is completely understandable.
Of course, Lars Løkke Rasmussen cannot be directly blamed for the latest case – as foreign minister, he has not been involved much in the day-to-day affairs of the secretariat – but it does not suit him to complain that the press is asking him about the case.
It is not the press that has created a party where one man decides everything.
2024-09-03 18:31:12
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