How Greenland’s Only Pro-Trump Candidate Did In The Election | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump’s dream of U.S. management over Greenland could also be on maintain after this week’s election within the autonomous Danish territory.

During a debate earlier this week, leaders of six events had been requested in the event that they belief Trump.

The one sure, Karl Ingemann of the comparatively new Qulleq get together, didn’t even win a seat in Parliament after his get together flopped with simply 1.1% of the vote.

The greatest winner this week was the center-right Demokraatit Party, which took almost 30% of the vote.

Its chief, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has been blunt in addressing Trump’s ambitions for the territory, calling his rhetoric “a threat to our political independence.”

The New York Times stated the get together was prone to enter a coalition with Inuit Ataqatigiit, a reasonable get together that got here in third on this week’s election with 21.4% of the vote. Its chief is the present prime minister, Múte Egede, who has additionally dismissed becoming a member of the United States.

“I think in the future, we have a lot to offer to cooperate with, but we want to also be clear. We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be a part of U.S., but we want a strong cooperation together with U.S.,” Egede instructed Fox News earlier this yr.

Both events favor a gradual method to the territory’s independence from Denmark.

The second-place get together, Naleraq, received almost 1 / 4 of the vote. Its chief, Pele Broberg, wrote an editorial this week calling for a extra speedy independence from Denmark and a pact with the United States however “without becoming a U.S. territory.”

Trump has repeatedly stated he needs Greenland to hitch the United States.

“We need [Greenland] really for international world security, and I think we’re going to get it,” he stated throughout final week’s deal with to Congress. “One way or the other, we’re going to get it.”

Polls present it’s not a preferred notion in Greenland, with 85% of respondents opposed in a January survey.

Trump reportedly floated buying the island throughout his first time period in workplace however didn’t say a lot about it publicly. Then after he received a second time period final yr, he known as management over the territory an “absolute necessity” and recommended taking it by power if wanted.

Trump’s scheme isn’t fashionable in Denmark, both, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen insisting that the territory “is not for sale.”

Others have been extra blunt, with Danish politician Anders Vistisen telling the president he can “fuck off.”