In skandaleåret 2018 had a number of stortingsrepresentanter withdraw from the various positions because they had abused the trust they were given. Trond Giske (Ap), Kristian Tonning Riise (H), Ulf Leirstein (Frp), Mazyar Keshvari (Frp) and Helge André Njåstad (Frp) were all involved in scandals of varying severity – and lost positions in the party.
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The latter two representatives have entered into 2019 with new scandals. Today it became known that the Keshvari was arrested this weekend, charged with aggravated threats, and is subject to a restraining order against the offended person.
But even if a member of parliament should be sentenced for rape or murder, the person must continue to meet in Parliament. There is no basis in the Constitution for depriving the person enlisted. So it should still be.
one year ago vented Frp representatives partikollega Morten Wold idea to look at the ability to deprive stortingsrepresentanter place in the national assembly. Now he does the same again. It is easy to understand that the issue being raised.
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Serious crimes committed by our foremost elected officials weakens confidence in both the politicians themselves and the political parties they represent. For partiledelsene it must be exhausting to deal with constantly new cases that is about enkeltpolitikeres misconduct and not party politics. For representatives without the party’s trust it may be long years on the back bench in the parliamentary assembly room. For the voters is the strippede the politicians eternal reminders of the betrayal of trust.
only to be deprived of the stortingsvervet is today if you lose your right to vote or citizenship. Then says the Constitution that one also loses the right to be a member of parliament.
In a number of states are deprived of felon voting rights, but such is fortunately not the case in Norway. The new penal code (2005) has no such reaction. If stortingsrepresentanten go in the service of a foreign power “without the government’s consent”, he looses the both your vote and place in the parliamentary assembly room. Otherwise, the hen sitting.
The only the exemptions that are given, is the permissions to the representatives who have gone to the heavy international offices: Jens Stoltenberg (A), Dagfinn Høybråten (KrF) and Børge Brende (H). It is a narrow eye of the needle.
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To be secured voters ‘ willingness . Being an mp is not a job, it is a personal election and a duty. In other countries, withdraw or lose your place if the parties want it. It allows for the manipulation of the voters ‘ will, so that celebrities or statsministerkandidater can be attractions without having to sit as elected officials. Or that the internal strife in a party can change partigruppas composition, in that a majority can push out other representatives. There are good reasons, therefore, to maintain the Constitution’s provisions.
Neither the parties or the individual’s representative should determine The composition between the options. The parties nominates who they want in front of each choice, and the voters decide who gets the confidence. In the meantime have elected to perform their civic duty.
Stortingsrepresentanter should, however, could have the absence of the same reasons as us. Politicians have children, they become sick and in some cases, they are in prison.
There may be reason to fear that the debate around politicians ‘ sykmeldinger allows representatives exhibiting at the parliamentary assembly room when they really are too sick to be there. Many of the above mentioned stortingsrepresentantene has been sykmeldte, and has been met with mistenkeliggjøring and ridicule for it. The same did Abid Raja, who was on sick leave after he was exposed for public drittslenging from his own party leader.
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In the case Keshvari should he have been sick already before the Aftenposten in the fall asked for transparency in the reiseregningene his. It requires no great degree of empathy to imagine it to be revealed in and indicted for aggravated fraud, and then, the sincerity of sykmeldingen, has not helped to strengthen his health. And there is reason to believe that the serious situation he has put himself in now, can be linked with sykdomsbildet.
Now is Keshvari on sick leave again. He it is, as long as the doctor thinks he is sick. The serious charges against him will be followed up by the police, then it is up to the judiciary to determine whether he should be punished. Aggravated fraud has a maximum sentence of six years, serious threats for up to three years.
Stortingsrepresentanten risk i.e. jail time and must then make up for themselves like other criminals. Although it would mean that he must be away from Parliament in the meantime.
Keshvaris fate which politician is up to him though, the progress party and the voters. But first at the next general election. The constitution’s provisions are encountered.
Stortingsrepresentanten can be away from the office as long as the doctor or the courts find it necessary – but his name remains on the door-out period.
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