Earlier this week, initiator Mikkel Dobloug spoke up about his new party plans. By his own admission, Dobloug is now working to create a new party that can steal some centrists' votes in Norway — yet has not considered actually playing a role in the party himself.
"I have been asked to contribute because I am economically independent and am free to operate in a climate that is very hard and hostile. Those who want to start the Alliance are afraid of stigmatization, dirt-throwing and other problems starting a new party usually entails," Dobloug told Norwegian daily Dagbladet.
Dobloug denied media suspicions that the Alliance is anti-immigration or critical of Islam. According to him, the party sought a kind of an immigration policy all parties would agree upon and would like to give a rational solution to the generation's "greatest challenge."
"Facing the largest migration crisis in Europe ever, we must put politics aside and pull ourselves together, as we did during World War II. Instead, we see chaos in Europe, a debate that has become so ugly that people are reluctant to take part in it," Dobloug said.
"Given that one can spend 2 percent of the GDP on defense, one can spend 2 percent of GDP on this, too," Dobloug said.
Mikkel Dobloug is a former Liberal Party politician and the son of Mali's first Treasury Secretary and Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Louis-Pascal Negre. Dobloug is also a renowned freemason. Dobloug became a multimillionaire overnight, when his parents died in 2001. He is also the Honorary Consul of Kazakhstan in Oppland and Western Norway.
