The message comes after meetings this morning between party leader Siv Jensen and Prime Minister Erna Solberg, followed by a telephone conversation with the Progress Party's leadership.
- Sitting in the government has always been a means for us to implement our policy, not a goal in itself, says Jensen, and says that cooperation within the government has been gnawing more and more over time.
- We could have endured the negative and some gray compromise if we had got more things we could be proud of.
Prior to the call, FRP had prepared a list of requirements for Erna Solberg, according to the Norwegian news agency NTB. The party, on the other hand, has not disclosed the requirements, but the pressure on Jensen to leave the government has grown.
Harsh criticism from the FRP teamThe reason for the government crisis is the decision last week to bring home a Norwegian-Pakistani 29-year-old woman and her sick child from Syria. Even FRP has wanted to take home the child, but not the mother.
The Norwegian security service PST accuses the woman of conspiring with terrorist-labeled jihadist groups IS and the Nusrafronten. The woman, for her part, denies the criminal charges, and says she wants to cooperate with PST.
The fact that the woman was helped to return to Norway has sparked sharp criticism within the FRP, which made Jensen threaten to leave the government. When she announces FRP's resignation from the government, Jensen describes the handling of the woman in Syria as what caused "the beaker to run over".