(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
Two weeks ago, Olav Gunnar Ballo (SV) appeared in Ny Tid and slaughtered Storting colleague Knut Storberget's (Labor Party) proposal that the Storting must take control of the process towards a new Finnmark Act.
- To ensure that the government's work with the Finnmark Act has not violated the indigenous conventions, the Storting must consult the Sami Parliament and the County Council in Finnmark, said Knut Storberget, and was supported by Inga Marte Thorkildsen (SV) in the Justice Committee.
- Completely unnecessary and hopeless. The Justice Committee can already talk to anyone. This procedural run on violations of the ILO Convention has been applied for, Olav Gunnar Ballo replied.
Now the Socialist Youth (SU) minority political committee has sent out a press release rejecting Ballo's slaughter of Storberget's proposals.
SU's selection consists of youth from 17 years and up, living in Finnmark and Troms. The committee will prepare SU's statement regarding the Finnmark Act.
- We can not risk the Finnmark Act becoming a law we can not stick to and recognize ourselves in, something we are afraid will happen if communication between the parties fails. The minority policy committee hopes that the justice committee agrees with Storberget's proposal, because it will result in the people the law applies to, gaining greater influence, says Ida Kjeilen Thuv, leader of SU's minority policy committee, who is happy Inga Marte Thorkildsen's support for Knut Storberget's proposal.
- Ballo sits as one of six members of SV's Finnmark law committee. We in SU's minority policy committee hereby challenge the other members of the team to say what they think about the matter, challenging the SU youth.
Besides the parliamentary representatives Olav Gunnar Ballo and Inga Marte Thorkildsen, the parent party's selection consists of the parliamentary representative Siri Hall Arnøy (leader), central board member Pål Julius Skogholt, county leader Knut Mortensen in Finnmark and professor at the University of Tromsø, Einar Niemi.
Ny Tid only managed to get hold of Pål Julius Skogholt for a comment this week. He had little to say about the case.
- I do not know well enough what Olav Gunnar Ballo has said, so I will not comment on that. Storberget's criticism seems justified, so I support his proposal, says the central board member of SV.
