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Norwegian minister faces no-confidence vote after terrorism post
Source: The Guardian
Norwegian minister faces no-confidence vote after terrorism post
Jon Henley European affairs correspondent
Mon 19 Mar 2018 14.46 GMT
A social media post by Norway’s justice minister accusing the opposition Labour party of putting terrorists’ rights above national security has triggered a no-confidence vote that could bring down the country’s minority government.
Five centre-left parties have said they aim to oust Sylvi Listhaug, of the populist, anti-immigration Progress party in the parliamentary vote on Tuesday, following widespread outrage at the Facebook post, which she has since deleted.
“Labour thinks the rights of terrorists are more important than the nation’s security. Like and share,” the minister wrote on 9 March beneath a photo of masked Islamist fighters dressed in combat fatigues, black scarves and ammunition belts.
The rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 69 mainly young people at a summer camp run by the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour party on Utøya island in July 2011. Eight more were killed by a car bomb in central Oslo.
Listhaug’s post, which coincided with the Oslo premiere of a film about the Utøya killings, the country’s worst peacetime massacre, unleashed a political furore and she was eventually forced to apologise eight times in parliament last week.
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Jon Henley European affairs correspondent
Mon 19 Mar 2018 14.46 GMT
A social media post by Norway’s justice minister accusing the opposition Labour party of putting terrorists’ rights above national security has triggered a no-confidence vote that could bring down the country’s minority government.
Five centre-left parties have said they aim to oust Sylvi Listhaug, of the populist, anti-immigration Progress party in the parliamentary vote on Tuesday, following widespread outrage at the Facebook post, which she has since deleted.
“Labour thinks the rights of terrorists are more important than the nation’s security. Like and share,” the minister wrote on 9 March beneath a photo of masked Islamist fighters dressed in combat fatigues, black scarves and ammunition belts.
The rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 69 mainly young people at a summer camp run by the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour party on Utøya island in July 2011. Eight more were killed by a car bomb in central Oslo.
Listhaug’s post, which coincided with the Oslo premiere of a film about the Utøya killings, the country’s worst peacetime massacre, unleashed a political furore and she was eventually forced to apologise eight times in parliament last week.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/19/norway-minister-faces-no-confidence-vote-after-terrorism-post
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