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We do cover foreign elections from time to time, but generally when they are in a major country that interacts with the U.S. a lot, like Canada, the U.K., Germany, and France. Well, Greenland had an election Tuesday and all of a sudden that is big news because Donald Trump wants to buy it. The election gives some feedback from the Greenlanders about how they feel about it.
Greenland is an autonomous region within the Kingdom of Denmark, although technically it is in North America. It is big, but not as big as it appears on Mercator-projection maps. The population is 56,000, about the same as Carson City, NV. It got self-rule in 2009, but Denmark handles its defense.
The biggest election winner was the center-right Democrats Party [sic] with 30% of the vote, triple what it got in 2021. It supports independence for Greenland in due course of time, but not yet. The party's leader, Jens-Frederik Nielson, said Greenland is not for sale. A deal between him and Trump is not in the cards.
In second place, with 25% of the vote, was Naleraq. Its leader, Pele Broberg, also wants independence, but much faster than Nielson. He is willing to work with the U.S. but does not want to join as a state or territory. A coalition of the Democrats and Naleraq is likely, but not certain, as Nielsen could form a government with two smaller parties instead.
Fun fact: Greenland has eight political parties but it doesn't have a Green Party, like most European countries do. Seems like a no-brainer to us. (V)