Inuit Ataqatigiit

Inuit Ataqatigiit ( for "Community of the People") is a leftist and separatist political party in Greenland. The party, founded in 1976, was born out of the increased youth radicalism in Denmark during the 1970s. The party strives to make Greenland an independent state.

In the, the party won 22.6% of the popular vote and seven out of 31 seats. Four years later, Inuit Ataqatigiit won a 44% plurality of the popular vote and doubled their share of parliamentary seats to 14 out of 31 seats in the.

Inuit Ataqatigiit is represented in the, the Danish parliament, by Sara Olsvig. Kuupik Kleist, its current president, replaced Josef Motzfeldt as president in 2008. In the Danish and, it retained one of Greenland's two seats in the 179-seat Danish Folketing.

Inuit Ataqatigiit made a major electoral breakthrough in the. Making gains from the 2005 Greenlandic parliamentary election, it doubled its total number of seats in the Parliament from 7 to 14 seats – just two seats short of a majority – and nearly doubled its total vote from 22.4% to 43.7%. It supplanted both its coalition partners, shifting the party from first to second and the  party from second to third.