Inuit Ataqatigiit
Inuit Ataqatigiit | |
Party leader | Múte B. Egede |
Vice chairman |
Aqqaluaq B. Egede (political) Agathe Fontain (organizational) |
Alignment | Democratic socialism |
founding | November 21, 1978 |
Headquarters | Nuuk |
Youth association | Inuusuttut Ataqatigiit Suleqatigiiffiat |
Sit in the Inatsisartut |
12/31 |
Member of the Folketing | Aaja Chemnitz Larsen |
www.ia.gl | |
The Inuit Ataqatigiit ( Greenlandic for “ Inuit community ” or “community of people”) is a political party in Greenland .
history
The Inuit Ataqatigiit formed as a political group in 1976. She took a position to the left of the balance between social democratic Siumut and conservative Atassut . On November 21, 1978, it was officially founded as a political party. Their goal was independence from Denmark and international cooperation with the Inuit in Canada and Alaska . Over the years the party moved closer and closer to the center and gained support.
In the first parliamentary election in 1979, the Inuit Ataqatigiit was not able to achieve a seat in parliament because the polarization between Siumut and Atassut was too great. In the following years she succeeded in entering parliament, where the party ensured that neither Siumut nor Atassut could achieve an absolute majority . Therefore, the Inuit Ataqatigiit decided by means of coalitions over the head of government, whereby the decision was always in favor of the politically closer Siumut. Until 2002, the party improved its election results every time. In the same year it was also the second strongest force in the country for the first time. After a slight decline in votes in 2005 , the party achieved a landslide victory in 2009 , in which it doubled its result. As a result, the Inuit Ataqatigiit provided Kuupik Kleist for the first time from 2009 to 2013, a prime minister who did not belong to the Siumut. Since then, the number of votes has fallen in every election, even if the party was still the second strongest force after the Siumut.
In 2021 , the party won the election for the second time in its history. The focus of the election campaign was the resistance to the planned uranium mining in Narsaq .
Political orientation
After the party had initially focused very much on independence as its sole goal, the Inuit Ataqatigiit is now campaigning for a stronger competitiveness of the Greenland economy, without which independence from a financial point of view is impossible. It wants to strengthen fishing and also use mining as a source of income, taking into account the environment and health, but rejects uranium mining and wants to focus more on tourism and improve Greenland's export opportunities. In addition, she advocates social policy and, for example, the reception of refugees.
Party leader
- 1978–1980: ???
- 1980-1992: Aqqaluk Lynge
- 1992–1994: ???
- 1994–2007: Josef Motzfeldt
- 2007–2014: Kuupik Kleist
- 2014–2018: Sara Olsvig
- 2018– Múte B. Egede :
Election results
Parliamentary elections
choice | voices | Share of votes | Seats | place | episode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1979 | 813 | 4.4% | 0/21 |
4th | not represented in parliament |
1983 | 2,612 | 10.6% | 2/26 |
3 | without a ministerial post in the government |
1984 | 2,732 | 12.1% | 3/25 |
3 | Government Junior Partner |
1987 | 3.823 | 15.3% | 4/27 |
3 | Junior partner of the government, from 1988 opposition |
1991 | 4,848 | 19.4% | 5/27 |
3 | Government Junior Partner |
1995 | 5,180 | 20.3% | 6/31 |
3 | opposition |
1999 | 6.217 | 22.1% | 7/31 |
3 | Junior partner of the government, later opposition |
2002 | 7,243 | 25.6% | 8/31 |
2 | opposition |
2005 | 6,517 | 22.6% | 7/31 |
3 | Government Junior Partner |
2009 | 12,457 | 44.1% | 14/31 |
1 | Senior Government Partner |
2013 | 10,374 | 34.7% | 11/31 |
2 | opposition |
2014 | 9,783 | 33.5% | 11/31 |
2 | Opposition, from 2016 junior partner of the government |
2018 | 7,478 | 25.8% | 8/31 |
2 | opposition |
2021 | 9,912 | 37.4% | 12/31 |
1 |
Folk elections
choice | voices | Share of votes | Seats | place | MP |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1981 | Candidates started in the party association | ||||
1984 | 2,939 | 13.7% | 0/2 |
3 | not represented |
1987 | 2,001 | 12.5% | 0/2 |
3 | not represented |
1988 | 3,628 | 17.3% | 0/2 |
3 | not represented |
1990 | 3,281 | 17.0% | 0/2 |
3 | not represented |
1994 | Candidates started in the candidate network | ||||
1998 | 4,988 | 21.4% | 0/2 |
3 | not represented |
2001 | 7.172 | 30.8% | 1/2 |
1 | Kuupik Kleist |
2005 | 5,785 | 25.0% | 1/2 |
2 | Kuupik Kleist |
2007 | 8,347 | 33.2% | 1/2 |
1 | Juliane Henningsen |
2011 | 9,587 | 42.6% | 1/2 |
1 | Sara Olsvig |
2015 | 7.914 | 39.2% | 1/2 |
1 | Aaja Chemnitz Larsen |
2019 | 6,881 | 34.4% | 1/2 |
1 | Aaja Chemnitz Larsen |
Web links
- Princip program. June 18, 2014(Danish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Inuit Ataqatigiit in Den Store Danske
- ↑ Nogle bemærkninger til bogen Inuit, kultur og samfund - en grundbog i eskimologi in the Atuagagdliutit of October 5, 1999
- ↑ Reinhard Wolf: Change of power due to dispute over uranium. In: taz. April 7, 2021, accessed April 9, 2021 .
- ↑ Et folk i fremdrift - Grønlands styrke. Declaration of the 2017 party congress. Retrieved April 9, 2021 (Danish).
- ↑ Inuit Ataqatigiit and Candidaterne at Knr.gl
- ↑ Lad os skabe forandring i fællesskab. (Danish, Greenlandic, electoral manifesto 2021).