People's Action Future for Finnmark , also popularly called the Aune List (Aunelista), was 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...

 political party which ran for the 1989 parliamentary election

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1989

A general election to the Storting, the parliament of Norway, was held on 11 September 1989.-Results:1 This list was a cooperation between the Norwegian Communist Party, Workers' Communist Party, Red Electoral Alliance and independent socialists....

 as a protest party against the more established parties of the country.

History

The action was started in March 1989, and on just three weeks about 4,000 people had joined it as members. It received members from parties ranging as wide as from the Red Electoral Alliance

Red Electoral Alliance

Red Electoral Alliance was an alliance of left-wing groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary far-left ideals into the Norwegian parliament...

 to the Progress Party

Progress Party (Norway)

The Progress Party is a political party in Norway which identifies as conservative liberal and libertarian. The media has described it as conservative and right-wing populist...

. The action was originally headed by Vidar Karlstad, but was immediately also supported by Anders John Aune

Anders John Aune

Anders John Aune was a Norwegian politician.Originally a member of the Labour Party, Aune was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1969, but was not re-elected in 1973. He was a member of Vadsø municipality council from 1951 to 1963, serving as deputy mayor in 1951–1952 and...

, a former Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. On 1 May 1989 Aune finally decided to run with the party for the 1989 election. By June 1989, the party had almost 7,000 members.

Among the issues for the party was a reduction of taxes in order to improve the conditions of the county which was haunted by poor fishing outputs and people moving out. After Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian Social democratic politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway , and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization...

 had visited the county the previous year, Karlstad stated that "it is incomprehensible for us that the Prime Minister of the country travels all over the world teaching other nations on how to govern themselves, while our county lay as a forgotten colony which people escape from".

In the 1989 election the party showed very successful, receiving 21.5% of the votes in the county of Finnmark

Finnmark

or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

 and becoming the second biggest party. This gave the party one representative in the Norwegian parliament, of which its leader Anders John Aune served for a four year term. The party however never ran for office again.