Multicultural List (, FKL) was a Norwegian immigrant political party.

History

The first and only time the party has completely independently run for election was in the 1995 municipal election in

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where it received 2.600 votes in the city.norskinnvandrerforum.no
This accounted for about 10-12% of the immigrant votes.vg.no - Vil sidestille urdu og samisk
/ref> In the 1999 local elections the party cooperated with

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and got its leader and candidate Athar Ali elected as member of the Oslo city council.

Political profile

In February 1996 leader Athar Ali reacted strongly when a group of

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city councilmen in Oslo took indirect distance to the

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against novelist

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. Shortly after the 1999 election, Athar Ali also said that

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s should be accepted, stating that: "Arranged marriage is all in all a good arrangement, where two families agree to a sort of contract. ..no-one wants to hurt and disappoint their parents. I believe indigenous Norwegians have difficulties understanding this. For you it seems completely absurd that a marriage should be directed by something else than love between two persons". Otherwise the Multicultural List also wanted the state to acknowledge languages such as

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, Turkish,

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and

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as official minority languages, thereby getting a status equal to

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. Other than cooperating with Red Electoral Alliance, the list has also expressed support for the Socialist Left Party.dagbladet.no - Støtter Kristin
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References

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