(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
From the hand of the preparatory election committee, it was planned, among other things, that the immigrant representation in the central board would be strengthened, with Akhtar Chaudhry and Eva Kahn as attending deputies. But when the nomination committee's recommendation came to the table on Sunday, Kahn was completely out and Chaudhry pushed down from first to third deputy. In practice, this means that Chaudhry only rarely – when at least two members with voting rights report due – get voting rights at the central board meetings in SV.
- I am very angry, said an upset but controlled Choudhry from the rostrum at the national meeting. However, Choudhry made it clear that he did not support a proposal to turn the list upside down, so he had moved up from third to first place. To Ny Tid, Choudhry emphasizes that it is not on his own behalf that he is upset, but on behalf of ethnic minorities who place their trust in SV as their party.
The second issue that was raised was the battle between Telemark SV's Henriette Westhrin and Nordland SV's Åsa Elvik as the oncoming product of the central board. Westhrin, who was previously a member of the central board, was originally proposed by the preparatory nomination committee as a member of the working committee, SV's top management. When the nomination committee presented its position, the majority agreed to kick her out completely. The same was true of Federal Secretary for Electricity and IT, Henning Solhaug.
The reason was the compromise the nomination committee had sought to reach between members and non-members of the anti-right-wing network. The network members had made it clear in advance that they had to get people into the central board that they could trust. Their demands were Åsa Elvik and Sonja Tinnesland from Stavanger. Then Westhrin and Kahn had to leave. It was a compromise the majority in the nomination committee – and the SV leadership – accepted. The alternative had been match voting in almost all places. And that the SV network had passed.
- If this is not adopted, then I honestly do not know what is happening, said the SV network's Knut Kjeldstadli in the debate.
- I hope this is the last time I am threatened to vote in a certain way at a national meeting. If this is an expression of the network's working methods, then there is no room for all of us in SV, replied Signe Ann Jørgensen from Aust-Agder.
Westhrin lost the vote to Elvik with 79 against 101 votes. And after that, Knut Kjeldstadli walked on the pulpit and promised, on behalf of himself and a number of other prominent members of the SV network, that they would work to close the network.
