Greenland will form a new coalition government that comprises all but one party elected to its legislature, a show of political unity in the face of ongoing takeover threats from United States President Donald Trump.
Four of the five parties with seats in Greenland’s parliament have agreed to band together in a broad coalition, local media outlets KNR and Sermitsiaq have reported. The deal is set to be announced Friday, the same day U.S. Vice President JD Vance plans to visit an American military base on the Arctic island.
Greenlanders went to the polls two weeks ago in a closely watched election to decide the fate of the self-ruling Danish territory. The center-right Democrats defeated the island’s governing left-wing coalition with about 30 percent of votes, but said it would try to form as broad a coalition as possible amid Trump’s saber-rattling.
Naleraq, a centrist, ardently pro-independence party, came second and is the only party not included in the coalition. It withdrew from coalition talks after a disagreement on when Greenland should seek independence from Denmark, with the Democrats favoring a slower approach.
Greenland’s new government will have to navigate increasingly fraught relations with the U.S. as a persistent Trump vows to seize the island by any means necessary.
The likely next prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said Greenland is not for sale and has called Trump’s aggressive overtures “a threat to our political independence.”
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