Christian party Norway wants to change its name
Deputy leader of the Christian Party, Tomas Moltu (l.), and his wife. Photo Facebook, Tomas Moltu.
Northern Europe
The Norwegian Partiet Dei Kristne (PDK, The Christian party) may change its name at a member’s meeting coming Saturday. The strategy committee decided to present two alternative options, the PDK deputy leader announced.
During a national party meeting, members will vote on whether a new name is necessary and what this new name should be. The strategy committee, led by deputy party leader Tomas Moltu, has thought of two alternatives: Blue and Conservative. Both received great support, Moltu said to Dagen on Sunday. The party has also considered calling itself “Christian Democrats” but then decided it would be too similar to the KrF party in Norway, which is now the Christian Democratic Party in the country.
Already in April, a strategy committee proposed changing the party name to Partiet De Konservative so that its abbreviation, PDK, would remain the same. At the time, Tomas Moltu said to Dagen that the party needed a new name to “expand the profile of the party to appeal to non-Christian voters with conservative convictions.”
Moltu now says he is personally favouring the name “Conservative Party”. According to him, Norway needs a conservative party. “And I think it is important that we make it visible that we are such a conservative party.
The deputy leader expects that removing “Christian” from the party name will lead to more voters. “I think we can have a paradigm shift when it comes to support and that this will have an effect”, he says.
Russian propaganda
During the last elections in September, the Christian Party received 0.4 per cent of the votes. Therefore, it has no seats in Parliament.
Earlier this year, the leader of the Christian Party was criticised for legitimising Russian propaganda. That was reported by Vart Land. Party leader Erik Selle said that the sanctions against Russia cause the food crisis in Africa and damage the Norwegian economy. Selle justified his statements that the PKD wants to lift some of the sanctions that affect the Norwegian economy.
However, his words seemed to connect seamlessly with a Russian disinformation campaign which accuses Western countries of causing a food crisis with sanctions rather than acknowledging that the Russian grain blockade is the problem.
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