Inuit Ataqatigiit
Community of the People Inuit Ataqatigiit | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Sara Olsvig[1] |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Nuuk, Sermersooq, Greenland |
| Youth wing | Inuit Ataqatigiit Inuusuttaat |
| Ideology |
Greenlandic independence[2][3] Left-wing nationalism Democratic socialism[3][4] |
| Political position | Left-wing[5] |
| Nordic affiliation | Nordic Green Left Alliance |
| Colours | Red and white |
| Inatsisartut |
11 / 31 |
| Municipalities |
18 / 70 |
| Folketing (Greenland seats) |
1 / 2 |
| Website | |
| http://www.ia.gl/ | |
Inuit Ataqatigiit (Greenlandic for "Community of the People") is a left-wing separatist political party in Greenland.[6][7] The party, founded in 1976, was born out of the increased youth radicalism in Denmark during the 1970s. It strives to make Greenland an independent state.[8]
Inuit Ataqatigiit is represented in the Folketing (the Danish parliament) by Sara Olsvig, who is also the leader of the party.
Inuit Ataqatigiit made a major electoral breakthrough in the 2009 Greenlandic parliamentary election. Making gains from the 2005 Greenlandic parliamentary election, it doubled its total number of seats in the Parliament from 7 to 14 seats out of 31 – just two seats short of a majority – and nearly doubled its total vote share from 22.4% to 43.7%. It supplanted both its coalition partners, shifting the Forward party from first to second and the Democrats party from second to third.[6][8] At the 2014 elections the party obtained 11 members in the Greenlandic parliament.[9]
Formerly a left-wing socialist party, it has developed towards supporting privatisation and market economy. It believes that an independent Greenland should be competitive.[10]
Election results
Parliament of Greenland (Inatsiartut)
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
± |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 813 | 4.4 (#4) | 0 / 21 |
New |
| 1983 | 2,612 | 10.6 (#3) | 2 / 26 |
 2 |
| 1984 | 2,732 | 12.1 (#3) | 3 / 25 |
1 |
| 1987 | 3,823 | 15.3 (#3) | 3 / 26 |
 0 |
| 1991 | 4,848 | 19.4 (#3) | 5 / 27 |
2 |
| 1995 | 5,180 | 20.3 (#3) | 6 / 31 |
1 |
| 1999 | 6,214 | 22.1 (#3) | 7 / 31 |
1 |
| 2002 | 7,244 | 25.3 (#2) | 8 / 31 |
1 |
| 2005 | 6,517 | 22.6 (#3) | 7 / 31 |
 1 |
| 2009 | 12,457 | 43.7 (#1) | 14 / 31 |
7 |
| 2013 | 10,374 | 34.4 (#2) | 11 / 31 |
3 |
| 2014 | 9,783 | 33.2 (#2) | 11 / 31 |
0 |
Parliament of Denmark (Folketinget)*
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
% of Greenlandic vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of Greenlandic seats won |
± |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 2,972 | 13.9 (#3) | 0 / 179 |
0 / 2 |
New | |
| 1987 | 2,001 | 12.5 (#3) | 0 / 179 |
0 / 2 |
0 | |
| 1988 | 3,628 | 17.3 (#3) | 0 / 179 |
0 / 2 |
0 | |
| 1990 | 3,281 | 17.0 (#3) | 0 / 179 |
0 / 2 |
0 | |
| 1998 | 4,988 | 21.4 (#3) | 0 / 179 |
0 / 2 |
0 | |
| 2001 | 7,172 | 30.8 (#1) | 1 / 179 |
1 / 2 |
1 | |
| 2005 | 5,774 | 25.5 (#2) | 1 / 179 |
1 / 2 |
0 | |
| 2007 | 8,068 | 32.5 (#1) (Tied with the Siumut party) | 1 / 179 |
1 / 2 |
0 | |
| 2011 | 9,780 | 42.7 (#1) | 1 / 179 |
1 / 2 |
0 | |
| 2015 | 7,904 | 38.5 (#1) | 1 / 179 |
1 / 2 |
0 | |
- In the Danish general election, 1994, an independent won a seat in the Danish Parliament, but the Inuit Ataqatigiit party didn't seem to contest that particular election.
References
- ↑ "Time campaign". Arctic Journal. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
- ↑ "Pro-independence party wins Greenland parliament election". Agence France-Presse. The Times of India. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- 1 2 Parties and Elections in Europe - The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
- ↑ "Greenland wakes up to first power shift in 30 years". The Copenhagen Post. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ↑ Christina Bergqvist (1 January 1999). Equal Democracies?: Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries. Nordic Council of Ministers. p. 319. ISBN 978-82-00-12799-4.
- 1 2 "Opposition win Greenland election". BBC News. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ↑ Ringstrom, Anna (2009-06-03). "Landslide win for Greenland opposition". Reuters. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- 1 2 Olsen, Jan M. (2009-06-03). "Left-wing party set to take power in Greenland after winning parliamentary vote". Associated Press. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ↑ Valg.gl
- ↑ Loukacheva, Natalia (2007). The Arctic Promise: Legal and Political Autonomy of Greenland and Nunavut. University of Toronto Press. p. 61.
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