Inuit Ataqatigiit (, old spelling: , , , IA) is a

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, pro-independence political party in

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. It is represented in the

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(the Danish parliament) by

Aaja Chemnitz Larsen Aaja Chemnitz Arnatsiaq Larsen (born 2 December 1977) is a Greenlandic politician, who is a member of the Danish Folketing for the Inuit Ataqatigiit, representing one of the two parliament seats for Greenland. Education and civil career Aaja Che ...

. Múte B. Egede has been the party's leader since December 2018.

History

The party was founded as a political organisation in 1976, born out of the increased youth radicalism in

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during the 1970s. In 1982, the party successfully campaigned in a national referendum for Greenland to leave the European Economic Community (EEC). 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 seven 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

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party from first to second and the Democrats party from second to third. At the

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, the party obtained 11 members in the Greenlandic parliament, but after elections in

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, their share decreased to eight seats. Following the 2021 elections, Inuit Ataqatigiit once again became the largest party in the Greenlandic parliament, with 12 seats, but fell to third place with 7 seats in

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Ideology

The party has traditionally been in favour of a

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, but parties to its

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have criticised it for having gradually moved towards a capitalist approach, supporting a

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and

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. Inuit Ataqatigiit believes that an independent Greenland should be

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while fighting to keep the environment clean.

Election results

Inatsisartut

Folketing

References

External links

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The North Atlantic Group in the Danish Parliament
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