He was powerful as Chairman. He led his party – The Progress Party of Norway. It is the right wing party with huge support within the population.
Carl I. Hagen was feared by foreigners when he was Chairman of the party, before he handed over to his deputy for many years, Siv Jensen, a vocal politician, a woman so vocal that you may think she is angry when she is trying to make a point during discussions.
Carl I. Hagen married to Eli, and as her biography states, the lover, the secretary and the wife has now revealed that not all was good in the relationship. No! He has told the media that the wife used to get so angry at him that the inter-com in parliament became a nightmare and source of anger as they shouted at each other through the intercom.
He now says he was afraid to stand close to his then deputy Jensen, because he feared a photograph might be taken showing them too close. The wife suspected him of having an affair with the deputy.
Of course, life must have been difficult for Hagen having two beautiful women around him all the time, the other one a secretary and a wife, while the other one was a political deputy. He had to talk to both all the time.
It must have been exiting, but difficult at the same time. In fact they both say that they made an agreement not to dance with anybody else during their parties, when celebrating party business. It was a wise idea, because it could have been easy for Hagen to dance with the deputy and cause a stir that would have rocked the party.
The two, Hagen and Hagen started off as secret lovers and chose London as a place to be in bed for the whole day. They say the London bed was fabric that spiced up the relationship. I guess they we happy when it became public – the affair of course, because then they could instead, have the whole day in a hotel in Oslo instead of flying all the way to the UK just to be in bed the whole day courting, and then fly back the next day to attend to party business, because they had to hide the affair. Have we said they were both married?
We almost forgot! Hagen, the man was married to another woman. Hagen, the woman – his wife now, was married to another man.
Their spouses must have suspected them, but with no prove because they could simply say they were in the hotel room writing a political speech that needed total secrecy.
The man is amazing. He is no less of a Statesman. His character is easily admired by those who know him. He is what you can say, an Alright gentleman.
But immigrants will not forget Hagen easily. No. He always reminded them of where they came from, and what he thought of them as people.
He did not directly abuse them. No. He made them know that they were not welcome in the country. When you confronted Hagen on why he kept reminding immigrants, and asylum seekers not to forget that they were not welcome to Norway, Hagen always had an answer. You would think he did not mean what he had said earlier. The man will tell you that he did not mean you, but the others who are not hard-working as you!
Of course, when you hear him say, it is not you, but someone else then you may decide not to continue demanding to know more. But remember you are also included in the list of those not welcome.
Was this a tactic? Does it smell of the – divide and rule sort of thing? I will keep looking for answers.
So what do we make of this man? A man who led his party from a confrontational party to one that is now respected and listened to. A man who led his party from a small protest party to become a huge party before he retired. A man who become the deputy parliamentary president in his last days as party Chairman.
He lives most of the time in Spain. A foreign country. We would have liked Hagen to live in Africa during his retirement years. So that he may understand how good hearted Africans are as a people. So that he understand and feel the hospitality of the African people. The problem, however, in Africa is that he risks to get photoed near some African woman. His wife will not like it because they both say they have had a jealous relationship.
Hagen still has time in parliament as deputy president, a powerful position, but one that requires him to be a statesman, not a nightmare to anyone.
We wish him peaceful retirement from the “right wing politics.”
By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.
africanpress@chello.no
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