Inuit Ataqatigiit
| Community of the People Inuit Ataqatigiit |
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| 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 |
| Landsting |
11 / 31
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| Folketing (Greenland seats) |
1 / 2
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| Website | |
| http://www.ia.gl/ | |
| Politics of Greenland Political parties Elections |
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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. The party strives to make Greenland an independent state.[8]
In the 2005 elections, the party won 22.6% of the popular vote and seven out of 31 seats.[4] Four years later, Inuit Ataqatigiit won a 44% plurality of the popular vote and doubled their share of parliamentary seats to 14 out of 31 seats in the June 2009 elections.[7]
Inuit Ataqatigiit is represented in the Folketing (the Danish parliament) by Aaja Chemnitz Larsen. Sara Olsvig, its current president, replaced Kuupik Kleist as president in 2014. In the Danish 2007 and 2011 parliamentary elections, it retained one of Greenland's two seats in the 179-seat Danish Folketing.
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 – just two seats short of a majority – and nearly doubled its total vote 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 maintained its 11 members in the Greenlandic parliament.[9]
Formerly a left-wing socialist party, it has developed towards supporting privatisation and market economy, believing that an independent Greenland should be competitive.[10]
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Election results[edit]
Parliament of Greenland (Inatsiartut)[edit]
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
± |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 813 | 4.4 (#4) |
0 / 21
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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
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7 |
| 2013 | 10,374 | 34.4 (#2) |
11 / 31
|
3 |
| 2014 | 9,783 | 33.2 (#2) |
11 / 31
|
0 |
Parliament of Denmark (Folketinget)*[edit]
| 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 |
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| 1988 | 3,628 | 17.3 (#3) |
0 / 179
|
0 / 2
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0 |
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| 1990 | 3,281 | 17.0 (#3) |
0 / 179
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0 / 2
|
0 |
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| 1998 | 4,988 | 21.4 (#3) |
0 / 179
|
0 / 2
|
0 |
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| 2001 | 7,172 | 30.8 (#1) |
1 / 179
|
1 / 2
|
1 |
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| 2005 | 5,774 | 25.5 (#2) |
1 / 179
|
1 / 2
|
0 |
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| 2007 | 8,068 | 32.5 (#1) (Tied with the Siumut party) |
1 / 179
|
1 / 2
|
0 |
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| 2011 | 9,780 | 42.7 (#1) |
1 / 179
|
1 / 2
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0 |
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| 2015 | 7,904 | 38.5 (#1) |
1 / 179
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1 / 2
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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[edit]
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Parties and Elections in Europe - The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b "Opposition win Greenland election". BBC News. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ a b Ringstrom, Anna (2009-06-03). "Landslide win for Greenland opposition". Reuters. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ a b 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.[dead link]
- ^ 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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