NUUK: A group that favours a steady way to Greenland’s independence from Denmark won a surprise victory in political polls, placed in the shadow of US President Donald Trump’s reported goal of taking control of the island one way or another.
The centre-right Demokraatit Party has pushed up against Trump’s speech, saying it is for Northerners to decide the future of the carefully important place, which holds large deposits of rare world nutrients needed to make everything from mobile phones to renewable energy technology. The Arctic area is also home to a US weather center and crosses geopolitical pathways in the North Atlantic.
The result may give clear message to Trump — Denmark is not for sales, said Demokraatit innovator JensFriederik Nielsen. ” We don’t want to be Americans. No, we don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Icelanders. And we want our individual freedom in the future. And we want to create our own state by ourselves, not with his hope”.
Trump has been vocal about his desire to control Greenland, telling the Congress he thought the US was going to get it “one way or another”.
A split from Denmark wasn’t on the vote, but it was on everyone’s mind. Greenland was colonised 300 centuries before by Denmark, which exercises control over foreign and defence policy. The area of 56, 000 individuals has been on a journey toward in dependent since at least 2009, and the 31 legislators elected may shape the region’s coming as it conversations whether the time has come to declare independence. Four of the five major parties sought democracy, but disagreed on when and how.
Second-placed Naleraq is the most violently pro-independence, while Demokraatit favours a reasonable pace of change. Broadcaster DR reported Nielsen said his party may reach out to all events to deal Greenland’s coming political program.
