Time for the country's Sami to go to the polls

Today it is time for elections to the Sami Parliament. At 8 o'clock, 24 polling stations from Karesuando in the north to Gothenburg in the south will open for the country's eligible Sami.

TT Per Mikael Utsi, member of the Sami Parliament who resigned from his position as chairman of the election committee earlier this year, during the Sami Parliament's plenary session in the Riksdag Anders Wiklund/StockholmB. TT More and more Sami are showing interest in voting. Ahead of today's election, there are 9,220 people included in the Sami voting list – around 460 more than in the previous election in 2017.

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