Norway’s far-left leader and parliamentarian, Bjørnar Moxnes, resigned from the party on Monday after being arrested for stealing designer sunglasses from a store at Oslo airport.
“I made a big mistake and made it even worse by the way I handled it afterwards,” Bjørnar Moxnes wrote on his Facebook page, adding: “I’m sorry and want to apologise.”
On June 30, Moxnes said he was fined 3,000 crowns (250 euros) for stealing Hugo Boss sunglasses, valued at 1,199 crowns (about 100 euros), from a store two weeks earlier. tax free at Oslo airport.
The 41-year-old politician invoked imprudence, but changed his version of the episode several times, captured by closed-circuit cameras and whose images seem to weaken the hypothesis of imprudence.
Currently on medical leave, Moxnes resigns as leader of the opposition Rødt (Red) party, which he led for 11 years and helped develop to the point of winning seven seats in Parliament in the 2021 legislative elections.
Under the current rules in Norway, it is impossible to resign from elective functions, such as that of deputy, during the term.
Until now, the number two in the party, Marie Sneve Martinussen, 37, temporarily assumes the leadership of the party.
Source: TSF
