Patient Focus Pasientfokus | |
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Abbreviation | PF |
Leader | Irene Ojala |
Founded | April 2021 |
Headquarters | Måsesvingen 15, 9512 Alta |
Ideology | |
Colours | Pink-orange |
Storting | 1 / 169 |
Website | |
pasientfokus | |
Patient Focus (Norwegian : Pasientfokus, PF) is a minor political party in Norway. It was formed in April 2021, [1] as a support movement for an expansion of the hospital in the town of Alta in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. [2] In the 2021 parliamentary election, it won one of Finnmark's five seats in the Storting. [1] [3] The party's leader, Irene Ojala, holds the seat. [4] Although the party is a single-issue party, it plans to utilize policies of direct democracy among the constituents it represents for its other policy positions. [5]
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