Unbound collection in Åland

Obunden Samling på Åland Unbound collection on Åland
Party leader	Bert Häggblom
Secretary General	Christian Wikström
vice-chairman	Christoffer Virtanen Ann Carlsson
Emergence	from Åland center
founding	1987
Headquarters	Box 69, AX-22101 Mariehamn , Åland
Alignment	Conservatism Value conservatism Regionalism Direct democracy Sovereignty EU skepticism
Colours)	yellow
Finnish Parliament	0/200
Lagting	4/30
Local councils	13/206 (+8 seats for list from ObS and M )
Website	www.obs.ax

The Unbound Collection on Åland ( Swedish Obunden samling på Åland , abbreviation ObS ) is a conservative - regionalist party in the autonomous Finnish province of Åland .

history

The Unbound Collection on Åland emerged in 1987 from the centrist agricultural party Åland Center , which in turn was founded in 1976. On October 28, 2013 the daily newspaper Nya Åland reported that the Unbound Collection on Åland would merge into the Moderaten on Åland ( Swedish Moderaterna på Åland ) and that the new alliance would henceforth act as the Moderate Collection for Åland . The entire faction of the Unbound Collection on Åland, consisting of a total of four MPs , followed the former party chairman Gun-Mari Lindholm into the alliance.

Part of the Unbound Collection on Åland persisted, but threatened to sink into political insignificance. In the parliamentary elections in Åland in 2015 , the new party chairman Bert Häggblom was able to win back three of the previous four seats, but at the municipal level, the party lost 16 seats in the local council elections taking place at the same time and now got 8 instead of the previous 24 seats. In the autumn of 2018, the Lagting MP Fredrik Fredlund left both party and parliamentary group after he was sentenced to 75 days in prison for double abuse in his partnership . As a result, the number of Members of the Unbound Collection in Åland fell from three to two.

Alignment

In addition to its conservative profile, the Unbound Collection on Åland stands for the fact that as many decisions as possible should be made at the regional , direct-democratic level, as larger political units move further and further away from the citizenship . Therefore, the party is also skeptical of the EU and advocates the autonomy of Åland not only in order to preserve the Swedish language and the independent culture , but also because the special opinion of the Åland population could be ignored if the government of Finland had greater influence on the autonomous province . The Unbound Collection in Åland can be compared in terms of its regionalist understanding with the Free Voters in Germany .

Election results

year	choice	be right	Share of votes	Seats
1987	General election 1987	0.750	07.0%	2/30
1991	Parliamentary election 1991	1,047	09.7%	3/30
1995	General election 1995	1.104	09.8%	3/30
1999	General election 1999	1,537	12.8%	4/30
2003	General election 2003	1,163	09.4%	3/30
2007	General election 2007	1,571	12.3%	4/30
2011	Parliamentary election 2011	1,639	12.6%	4/30
2015	General election 2015	1,328	09.6%	3/30
2019	General election 2019	1.926	13.57%	4/30

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved June 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Nyheter | Nya Åland. Retrieved June 10, 2019 . 
3. ^ Wolfram Nordsieck: Parties and Elections in Europe: Parliamentary Elections and Governments since 1945, European Parliament Elections, Political Orientation and History of Parties . BoD - Books on Demand, June 5, 2019, p. 188 .
4. ↑ Mandatfördelning i kommunernas fullmäktige efter kommunalvalen efter år, commun, koch parti. Retrieved June 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ editors: Domen mot Fredrik Fredlund (Obs). In: Ålands Nyheter. September 21, 2018, accessed June 10, 2019 (sv-SE). 
6. ↑ ObS - Obunden Samling. Retrieved June 10, 2019 (Swedish).