Norway: New independent party aims to give immigrants a voice
April 28, 2009
Norwegian-Pakistani Ghufoor Butt and his new political party, the Independent Labour Party aims to enter parliament as a voice for immigrants.
Butt accuses Norwegian politicians of neglecting immigrant issues and says the country's immigration policy has failed.
'These problems are really big problems. There should be someone, some good spokesman for them, who can fight for them,' Butt told Reuter
in the capital Oslo on Sunday (April 26).
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