The party that challenges the rights of the indigenous population sees great gains in the elections

This week, the Norwegian Calctural Parliament elections have restored great gains for a party that opposes land rights and other special privileges of the indigenous group.

The North Calotte (NKF) ran on the “equality” platform of Norwegian and Semites, as well as the members of the Finnish minority Kven, in their northern pole.

For several centuries, the Arctic cover was a melting crucible from Sámi, Kvens, Finns, Norway and others, “NKF platform Read. “Equality means that everyone should have the same opportunities and rights, regardless of where they live, the language in which they speak or what the culture they belong to.”

The party won the number 15 seats and about a third of the vote on Monday, as it was only second in the Norwegian Sámi Association (NSR), the oldest Sámi party in Norway, which has been carrying power since 2009.

None of the two parties now lead the majority in Parliament.

Opposition of the original veto

NKF was explicit in resisting the efforts made by the leaders of Sámi to devote the principle Free, advanced and enlightened approval On developments in Sápmi, their northern pole.

I have supported controversial energy and mining projects in the north, which are functions in reducing coastal societies, but the opponents say Will Ringtings are disrupted, land poisoning and traditional water.

Also party I objected strongly For the efforts made to expose the so -called “Sami fake-The voters and the politicians who do not meet the criteria of eligibility in the elections: to determine the high and are demanding the ancestors of the high language.

“No high or investigation of their high identity should be proven,” its platform Read.

But the emergence of prominent cases-including that A former minister responsible for the grazing policy -It led to anxiety among some of the leaders of Sámi that non -Omrantees infiltrate the institutions of the indigenous population in order to undermine and dismantle them.

In Finland, these fears were born Decades To reform the election law in this country and to audit the voter’s ties more closely with the live Sámi societies.

However, in Norway, the proposals were necessary to conduct an unknown survey of voters on their demands of Sámii By nkfThose who told their supporters to boycott the project, describing it as a “measuring the modern skull” – in reference to Experiences in the nineteenth century racist On high societies.

Sámi has changed.

Torrell Buckin Kane, who founded NKF in 2009, told CBC News that the party’s policies aim to overcome a “national romantic point of view” of Sami as the Rinna Shorta only.

“What we say is that the people of the High – all the High people, not only reindeer shepherds – should be part of making decisions,” she said.

But its critics in NSR He says “Art honed the art of attacking the rights of the Highness and depicting it as a project of equality.”

Ann Henriete Nilot, political advisor and campaign manager at NSR, said the electoral result indicates a deep polarization in the Semitic community, and the overcoming of those high -ranking people is less related to traditional culture.

She told CBC News: “There was a shift in the policy of Sámi.” “NKF has managed to put a word to feel a lot of high, not to be good enough for society.”

Sámi is displayed in Norway Brutal policies for forced assimilation For several centuries, similar to those in Canada’s indigenous people. Nkf He draws his support Of many of these areas where the assimilation had its greatest impact.

Kane says her party’s success is evidence that the Semites are “more than one thing.”

“We have to accept that the Norwegian occurred,” she said. “This is very difficult … that society has changed.”

NSR will now lead talks to form an alliance government. They are expected to have support to win the association’s vote for its new president – NKF mode, at the present time, in the opposition again.