Abid Raja has created a lot of noise for the Left and the government in the last days, after he on Friday called the progress party’s rhetoric in the campaign for “brown propaganda”.

Culture and equality minister Trine Skei Grande told NRK that she hopes that the case will soon be finished, and that the debate be dead.

She believes that the debate has not been good for the Left and the government, but will not, however, lament the Rajas overtures.

Was it right of him to write two op-eds?

– He must be allowed to write the kronikkene he will. I know that this is an important debate for the Left-people, and we need to be able to stand in such debates, but we can’t keep on indefinitely.

If it becomes an excuse to Siv Jensen, replies Skei Grande of the following:

– Now Abid Raja said sorry, and it was kjempelurt of him.

Believes no one in the government servant about the noise around Raja

I expect that all do not think the last this weekend’s discussions have been to the benefit of, any person in the government. We will present a budget we are proud of in a few weeks, says prime minister Erna Solberg (H).

She was greeted by a series of questions about Abid Raja and the conflict between the coalition parties the progress party and the Left when she opened the Vamma power plant in Skiptvedt Wednesday.

I don’t have more comments than the ones I gave in the weekend to the discussion that has been, ” says Solberg.

prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) in Skiptvedt Wednesday.

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– you Expect that it still will be possible for two so different political parties to sit together in the government?

– We have very many things we agree about, and the most important thing to sit in the government is that we find that we get more support for the policies our government than outside, ” says Solberg to NRK.

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the progress party leader and finance minister Siv Jensen told the Left leader Trine Skei Grande to apologize for this measure, which she refused. When prime minister Erna Solberg (H) asked the political parties put the controversy behind him, replied the Raja to repeat the criticisms in a long article in Aftenposten. At the same time he asked the questions by Tomorrow the management through the conflict.

Far over the line, said Jensen, and asked the Left to take the consequences if they don’t like to rule with Frp.

No good idea, said the prime minister.

Wednesday lamented Raja the use of the term “brown propaganda”, and underlined that he did not mean to draw any parallels to nazism, when he held an impromptu press conference in the arrivals hall at Gardermoen.

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Abid Raja meets the press at Gardermoen.

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