Norwegian justice minister faces no-confidence vote after terrorism post
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/19/norway-minister-faces-no-confidence-vote-after-terrorism-post
Listhaug has a fairly extensive record of making inflammatory posts on Facebook that appeal to a very right-wing group of the population. It will be interesting to see if this goes through.
It's not actually possible to have a no-confidence vote specifically against a minister, so if the no-confidence vote is passed it practically means the government needs to resign as a whole, unless Listhaug resigns or is removed before that.
Listhaug being pressured to resign is the likelier option, isn't it? Can't see the whole government stepping down, unless things work drastically different over there on the wrong side of the border?
She seems to be stubborn enough to not resign. Same goes for the prime minister who seems to put her confidence in her government. So the likeliest option right now is actually the government stepping down.
The last party needed to get a majority (Christian Democrats) has said that if the prime minister doesn't "handle" the situation accordingly, they will vote in favor of the opposition.
What "handling it" actually means remains to be seen, but the vote goes up tomorrow.
This is very exciting tbh.
The minister took six days to take the post down and faced further criticism when her initial apology to MPs referred to a “communications” error rather than the offensive content of the post. She eventually made an unconditional apology, saying “of course it is not the case” that Labour was a threat to national security.
The post actually got taken down because she didn't have the rights to the image. Neither her nor the prime minister wanted it taken down.
It would be strange if the entire government was brought down instead of Listhaug being pressured to resign, but it seems like the prime minister wants to make a statement that "the opposition doesn't get to decide who I have in my government" or some stupid shit like that. She's trying to play hardball it seems.
I do suspect she was trying to pressure the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) into going against the no-confidence vote by saying the entire government would resign, and the CDP sits with the chance to change the entire outcome of it right now, but now that the CDP has said they lack confidence in the minister it's totally clear what's going to happen.
The no-confidence vote is happening tomorrow, so we'll know soon enough. Definitely very interesting and exciting at least.
She resigned this morning.
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