Halden Arbeiderpartis “gray eminense” the 40 last years, Svein Olaussen (73), shall be alleged to have made threats to “peise” his own successor, Arve Sigmundstad (43).
This is a note that Sigmundstad wrote to the board of directors in lokallaget after a membership meeting, 21. november, where the understatement went for a cool hot. After several heated discussions, soliciting Olaussen among other Sigmundstad and gave him the smooth layer, for example, to be kunnskapsløs and inexperienced.
– You write in the note that Svein Olaussen said that he wanted to “peise” you. What can he have meant by that?
There you have to almost ask the Servant about, it is only he who knows, says Sigmundstad to VG.
– How perceived you what he said?
– Like that he wanted to pat to me, fike to me, give me a lusing. But as I said, this can only he answer.
“The first”
In the decades is Svein Olaussen been accused of being “mafia boss”, the spider and the man who pulls the threads and govern the city. He has been group leader for the Labor party in the city council, and for many years deputy mayor. In addition, he was until he was retired human resources manager in the city’s largest company, paper mill.
Some have called him a “gray eminense”. Others have called him “the dark prince”.
Anyway, he has had a central role in Haldens political life since the mid-1970s.
the parliamentary ombudsman recommended investigation of Halden in 2010 because they got so many complaints, especially on the byggesaksbehandlingen, according to a Municipal Report, who has written many critical articles about Ap-the board of directors in Halden, norway.
the Number of cases there has been an uproar about is simply countless, and many of them have also reached riksmediene TV2, Norwegian broadcasting corporation, Dagens Næringsliv and VG.
Reject the charges
today on Thursday, turns Svein Olaussen back against charges of threats of violence in Halden Arbeiderblad (behind betalingsmur) in a longer interview:
I’m no threatening person, ” says Olaussen.
I have not made any threats, and I have not asked the group leader about to retire. It is not my style, ” says Svein Olaussen to the local newspaper.
In a post in newspaper claims Olaussen that to “peise” is a term that does not exist in his vocabulary. He will not deepen towards the VG.
I don’t have time to talk with you, ” he says.
– Is Svein Olaussen “the Dark prince” in Halden, norway group leader Sigmundstad?
No.
“Light first”, then?
No.
– What is it in your opinion correct to call him?
– Svein has in 30-40 years has been an important person in Halden Ap and in the community. Now he is a committed member of the Halden Lab, ” says Arve Sigmundstad.
uncomfortable
– Was it uncomfortable to be threatened by him, as you understood it?
– No. I have said and done what I believe is correct. Svein is hired by a eiendomsfirma in Halden as a consultant. It means that he cannot participate in the adjudication of cases involving this company’s interests. He is to be regarded as a lobbyist. It is like when former ministers begins in the First House. It’s okay, but then they can not treat the affairs of the party. Here is the Aps articles of association very clear. And it is this I have said to both Svein and the public, ” says Sigmundstad.
the Leader of the Halden Ap, Kjersti Brekke Myrli, confirms Sigmundstads representation of what happened in the aftermath of the meeting 21. november, even though she herself did not hear the alleged voldstrusselen.
Sigmundstad provides a muted representation of what happened in his note. I also got my share of blowout, and there were several other witnesses, saith the Myrli to VG.
I have now summoned an extraordinary board meeting before christmas, because we need an orderly processing of this case, ” she says.
“the Situation in the recent past has been challenging for both the party and individuals. There have been many enquiries, opinions, and feelings in turn”, she writes Halden Aps Facebook page.
time to give up, Olaussen, writes editor-in-chief Hans-Petter Kjøge in Halden Arbeiderblad.
First in the municipal elections in 2015 was not Svein Olaussens name any longer on the Aps list of options.
Here is the whole of the sensational note are authored by group leader Sigmundstad, as Halden Arbeiderblad published on Tuesday.
NOTE:
“After the media stories about Arbeidersamfundet I as a group leader received a relatively harsh feedback from one of our members – both on the telephone and face to face.
Member believes that it is unheard of that this member’s commitment to private business interests to be of any significance for the member’s opportunity to participate also in the party’s internal decision-making processes in cases where they also have engaged as a consultant.
Monday, 21. november was kommunestyregruppen, the board of directors of the party and the board of directors of the three partilagene invited to a joint meeting to discuss the budget for 2017. This meeting is one of several in a longer møterekke the municipality’s budget.
Member Svein Olaussen came and sat in the audience when the meeting began, and asked for each whether the word. I did note that he could get the word, but that this really was a meeting for the employee representatives in the party, i.e. the group, the board of directors and the boards of the teams – members without positions in the party.
Member think it was utidig of me to point out such a thing, but declined gradually in the pulpit, and performed his message.
When the meeting ended, came the member until møtelederbordet – and was in the first instance, critical both to the undersigned as a group leader and the leader Kirsti Brække Myrli. He expressed that we ruined the party, that it was unheard of that it was led to a discussion in the party about whether or not the member has stood up in the media as a consultant for property investors in the city – would be disqualified from participation when issues that sentrumsplan, budget and municipal property management should be discussed.
the Member, expressed the that this was something the party had nothing with, and discussions about his impartiality, he would have himself frabedt.
Member could also tell that the leader and the group leader did not understand anything, was cannot afford not, and those who had destroyed both the culture and the expertise in the party. Everything was much better before, it was really a summary from the member.
the Conversation was interrupted for a little while before the member came back and had some more feedback to the group leader. This was variations of the same theme, about where the small group leader understands, how debilitating the group leader is for the party, where inexperienced and kunnskapsløs group leader and that group leader should resign immediately. This is also not the first time this member has requested that I draw myself as a group leader.
Finally told member that he wanted to “peise” group leader, and then go out in media and tell the truth about the group leader and my incompetence.
Member could also tell that he is a warrior, and now he was ready to go in the war to “take the group leader”. The group leader also had to be aware of the fact that the member disposes of large troops, both of the old party members and people in other positions in the municipality.
the Message was very clear, either bend the group leader and do as the member says – otherwise it will have a consequence.
As the group leader of the Halden Party I have never thought to bend the threats, neither from the members or others. In the first place orient I gruppestyret, and so I pray that gruppestyret discusses how this should be handled further”.
