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Earlier today, Nordstrands Blad brought the news that Hadia Tajik and her husband Kristian Skard have bought an atrium house at Skullerud in the Østensjø area.
In the impressive garden, Tajik answered questions about whether she is ready to fight for Oslo’s seat in the Storting:
“I’m going to live here now, and this is where I envision my girlfriend’s future. This is where she will go to kindergarten and school. It also means that it is only natural that this is where I will be involved. But in what way we will see in due course. In that case, it has to be in a way that suits the Oslo Labor Party. We have to take it as it comes”.
The answer is unclear.
And I am left with two unanswered questions: Why a parliamentary politician for Oslo? Wouldn’t you be better suited as a city council leader candidate, Hadia?
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In the same situation as others
The last time the Labor Party managed to take power in Oslo from the largest party in the city, the Conservative Party, it happened when a strong politician left the party leadership and joined the local election campaign.
The city was then governed by Raymond Johansen for eight years, from 2015 to 2023.
Last year, however, he lost the election, and the Conservative Eirik Lae Solberg took over power at City Hall.
The last time the Conservative Party was in power was a couple of decades. It could happen again soon, if the Labor Party is unable to put together a proper constellation team.
And Hadia Tajik undoubtedly has star potential in a local election in a city with a young population and many immigrants, as well as great growing pains.
She is in the same situation as many other residents of Oslo:
- Have small children.
- Minority background.
- He grew up in a small village in Bygde-Norway.
- We chose to settle in an area close to the best and most challenging things about our city.
It is clearly an advantage for whoever will rule the city, who knows the city and the challenges.
It should be mentioned here that the current leader of the city council Eirik Lae Solberg is also an immigrant and that he had his children in the Oslo School. He is from Drammen, but has been a local politician for the Conservative Party in Oslo since 2007 after first coming to the city in various roles in national politics, including as secretary of state in the government of Kjell Magne Bondevik.
Candidate identified and profiled
Today Tajik has confirmed the opposite VG that she registered with the local group Oslo laborersamfun in Oslo Ap. Previously, she refused to be re-elected to the Storting for the Rogaland Labor Party.
Since the election in 2021, the Tajik has been Minister of Labor and Inclusion in the government of Jonas Gahr Støre. She was Ap’s deputy leader from 2015 until she resigned from the party leadership and cabinet post in March 2022, following the VG commuter housing revelations.
The road to the top in the Labor Party is now a long one.
It is also not clear whether she will win a nomination contest to represent Oslo Ap in the Stortinget. There are already too many politicians with a national profile.
In local politics, on the other hand, experience from national politics can be an advantage. Almost regardless of who else is running, the Tajik will be the best-known candidate.
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Crime fighting game
There were also signs that local people were more involved.
Avisa Oslo previously wrote that Tajiks have made a strong profile in recent months in the fight against crime in Oslo. in AO and some other media.
1. I am var hun main appellant of Nordstrand Ap. The same day she stopped by International forumand many people said she was active in local team events.
The Prime Minister’s dream?
It makes me wonder if Hadia Tajik doesn’t have an inner dream of becoming prime minister one day. It also surprises me if that dream doesn’t feel more distant now than it has in a long time.
In that case, it is possible to imagine that the road from the garden at Skullerud to the fight for the second most recent top management position in politics, head of the Oslo city council, is shorter and more exciting.
After all, it is more natural that a Skullerud woman wants to rule Oslo than that a Grünerløkka man leads the largest Labor party in Trondheim!
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