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Greenland’s Demokraatit Center-Right party achieved a surprise victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, taking the party of the Greenland Prime Minister, Múte Egede, Inuit Ataqatigiit, out of power. Denmark’s independence became a focal point of the election in the middle of the repeated President Donald Trump Talk about the United States taking control.
“People want a change … We want more businesses to finance our well-being,” said Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of Demokraatit, according to Reuters. The departure added that Nielsen said that Greenland does not “want independence tomorrow” and that he prefers the separation of Denmark is based on a “good base.”
Demokraatit leader, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, reacts during the Electoral Party at Cafe Killut in Nuuk, on March 12, 2025. (Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen through Reuters)
Four of the five main parties on the electoral ballot, including those that won the first and second place, Demokraatit Party and Naleraq, favor the independence of Denmark, but they do not agree on the rhythm. Greenland, whose population has approximately 57,000 people, currently operates as a semi -automated territory of the kingdom of Denmark. However, Trump’s renewed interest On the island he caused conversations about separating from the Danish crown.
Prime Minister Egede, whose party could not maintain control, said in a Facebook post that respects the result of the elections and that the parties are ready for negotiations.
Danish defense minister, Troels Lond Poulen, congratulated the Demokraatit party and said that the Greenlandic future would face Trump’s “mass pressure”, according to Associated Press, which quoted the Danish Broadcasting Corporation Dr. Greenland “.
The Demokraatit party saw a great increase in support, winning almost 30% of the votes compared to only 9% in 2021, according to The Associated Press, which cited the Greenlandia Knr TV transmission corporation.
Demokraatit poster, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, in front of Godthaabshallen, where the vote takes place in relation to parliamentary elections to Inatsisartut in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix through AP)
Groenland, Panama fiercely rejects Trump’s ambitions in the speech to Congress
Earlier this month, Trump mentioned Greenland in his speech to a joint session of Congress.
“We firmly support your right to determine your own future and, if you wish, we welcome you to the United States of America,” Trump said, causing the laughter of the crowd. “We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we are working with all those involved to try to get it … in one way or another, we will get it.”
In the same direction, Trump promised that the United States “would take Greenland to heights as I had never believed possible before.”
The campaign posters hang outside the voting station before tomorrow’s general elections on March 10, 2025 in Ilulissat, Greenland. (Joe Raedle/Getty images)
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During a January phone call with Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Greenland must make decisions about his own future. Both Prime Ministers Frederiksen and Egede told President Trump that “Greenland is not on sale,” Axios said at that time.
In December 2024, the then elected president Trump played Ken Howery as an ambassador of the United States in Denmark. Trump said in a publication about Truth Social announcing the choice that “the United States of America feels that Greenland’s property and control is an absolute necessity.”
President Trump also looked at Greenland during his first term, causing friction between him and Prime Minister Frederiksen. In 2019, after the Danish leader called on the idea that the United States bought “absurd” Greenland, President Trump abruptly canceled his trip to Denmark for the “unpleasant” comment.
