Immigrant Party

Immigrant Party logo.

The Immigrant Party (Norwegian: Innvandrerpartiet) is a Norwegian multicultural immigrant's interests^[1] political party which was founded on 3 September 2006 in Oslo.^[2] Its chairman is Indian-Norwegian Mohan Singh Varma, a former member of the Labour Party, Centre Party, Conservative Party and Progress Party. Among the issues for the party was to introduce affirmative action for immigrants on jobs in the public sector.^[3] In the 2007 local elections the party received a mere 0.1% of the votes (329 votes) in Oslo.^[4]

References

↑ innvandrerpartiet.no - Vedtekter
↑ vg.no - Eget innvandrerparti stiftet i Oslo
↑ "Starter parti for innvandrere". Aftenposten. 5 September 2006. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
↑ aftenposten.no - Kommunestyrevalget : Oslo

External links

Official website

Political parties in Norway

Bracketed numbers indicate current numbers of seats in parliament for the 2013-2017 term.

Storting	Labour (55) Conservative (48) Progress (29) Centre (10) Christian Democratic (10) Liberal (9) Socialist Left (7) Green (1)

Minor parties¹	Red Christians Pensioners' Pirate Coastal Democrats Christian Unity Liberal People's Communist Society

¹ registered national parties, by order of popular vote in most recent general election Portal:Politics List of political parties Politics of Norway

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