Inuit Ataqatigiit

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Inuit Ataqatigiit
Inuit Ataqatigiit logo.png
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

Election results

Parliamentary elections

choice voices Share of votes Seats place episode
1979 0.0813 04.4%
0/21
4th not represented in parliament
1983 02,612 10.6%
2/26
3 without a ministerial post in the government
1984 02,732 12.1%
3/25
3 Government Junior Partner
1987 03.823 15.3%
4/27
3 Junior partner of the government, from 1988 opposition
1991 04,848 19.4%
5/27
3 Government Junior Partner
1995 05,180 20.3%
6/31
3 opposition
1999 06.217 22.1%
7/31
3 Junior partner of the government, later opposition
2002 07,243 25.6%
8/31
2 opposition
2005 06,517 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 09,783 33.5%
11/31
2 Opposition, from 2016 junior partner of the government
2018 07,478 25.8%
8/31
2 opposition
2021 09,912 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

Individual evidence

  1. a b Inuit Ataqatigiit in Den Store Danske
  2. Nogle bemærkninger til bogen Inuit, kultur og samfund - en grundbog i eskimologi in the Atuagagdliutit of October 5, 1999
  3. Reinhard Wolf: Change of power due to dispute over uranium. In: taz. April 7, 2021, accessed April 9, 2021 .
  4. Et folk i fremdrift - Grønlands styrke. Declaration of the 2017 party congress. Retrieved April 9, 2021 (Danish).
  5. Inuit Ataqatigiit and Candidaterne at Knr.gl
  6. Lad os skabe forandring i fællesskab. (Danish, Greenlandic, electoral manifesto 2021).