Its prime minister Norway and the opposition leader today protested a controversial decision by officials of the fifth bigger city of the country to accept exclusively Ukrainian refugees.
Yesterday afternoon, the majority of the city council of Drammen, a city with more than 120,000 inhabitants 40 kilometers west of Oslovoted in favor of a measure aimed at welcoming only Ukrainians refugees.
In doing so, the majority held by the Conservative Party, the populist anti-immigration right, the Christian Democratic Party and a small group representing pensioners defied the centre-left government's warnings. Today Labor Prime Minister Jonas Gar Stere criticized the measure saying that “It's not legal».
“This is not something municipalities can do,” he told public broadcaster NRK. “A core value is to ensure that people who flee are treated equally.” According to the NTB agency, the leader of the conservative opposition, Erna Solberg, from the same party as the mayor of Drammen, also emphasized that “no municipality can choose whatever it wants to accept refugees only from a certain country', even if it is not 'unusual' to have preferences.
If the measure is not withdrawn, the Drammen authorities' decision is likely to lead to the impeachment of the prefect.
Source: News Beast
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