Árja is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 Sami

Sami people

The Sami people, also spelled Sámi, or Saami, are the arctic indigenous people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are Europe’s northernmost...

 political party. The party was founded on 24 May 2008 in Jergul, and its leader is Láilá Susanne Vars. The ideology of the party is claimed to be based on respect for the elderly in society and traditionally based education. Otherwise, the party wants a more open and available Sami Parliament

Sami Parliament of Norway

The Sami Parliament of Norway is the representative body for people of Sami heritage in Norway. It acts as an institution of cultural autonomy for the indigenous Sami people....

, criticise the Sami Parliament for neglecting traditionally Sami values and society and thus want to strengthen the rights for the rural and coastal population.

The party put up lists in five out of seven consituencies, and ran for its first Sami parliamentary election in 2009

Norwegian Sami parliamentary election, 2009

The 2009 Sami parliamentary election was held in Norway on September 14, 2009. Voters elected 39 members for the Sami Parliament of Norway.The election saw significant losses for the two dominant parties in the Sami Parliament, the Norwegian Labour Party and Norwegian Sami Association...

where it immeditately broke through as the third largest party, with 10% of the votes and 3 parliamentary representatives.