– We are working on. The gap is still large, but I experience a constructive counterpart, says SV’s negotiating leader Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes to NTB.
The Labor Party, the Center Party and SV started negotiations on the budget on 14 November.
After ten days of several meetings, there is still a lot left, according to Fylkesnes.
Doesn’t fit the plan
Originally, the parties had a plan to finish by Monday, when the opposition parties will make their comments on the government’s budget proposals.
– We will not finish tomorrow, Fylkesnes states on Sunday evening.
The next deadline is Friday 29 November, when the finance committee at the Storting will come up with its proposal for the budget.
But in principle, the governing parties and SV can wait until the budget is to be considered in the Storting on 5 December to present their proposal.
– Particularly demanding
SV has previously said that this year’s budget negotiations are particularly demanding. Among other things, they have demanded a breakthrough in terms of oil policy, nature and redistribution.
– The richest in Norway must contribute more – just as much as ordinary people do. They don’t do that today. Nurses pay far more to the community as a share of their income than the very richest, Fylkesnes said when the negotiations began.
– There is reason to expect many long evenings and nights, but the way I experience SV, they are a constructive negotiation partner, said Center Party’s fiscal policy spokesperson Ole André Myhrvold to NTB on the way into the negotiations.
Tuva Moflag is leading the negotiations for the Labor Party, and Ole André Myhrvold for the Center Party.
Originally, it was financial policy spokesperson Kari Elisabeth Kaski who was to lead the negotiations from SV’s side, but on 7 November she was on sick leave for three weeks.
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