“As a country, we are in the face of unprecedented and difficult times,” writes Mute B. Egeded on Facebook on February 4. The Prime Minister of Greenland adds that this is not the time for “internal divisions, but for the cooperation and unity of our country.” And announces that if the parliament will give green light, On March 11, parliamentary elections will be held .
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The Chamber agrees and today the Greenlanders are going to vote. There are over 41,000 of 56,000 inhabitants of the island to vote. This is more or less as much as Mikołów, Zduńska Wola or Sieradz lives.
Except that the Greenlanders are to indicate people who will decide about the fate of the largest island of the world, almost seven times greater than the area of Poland. Rich in rare minerals. And important from the point of view of global security.
Parliamentary elections in Greenland, hardly anyone would be interested if it wasn't for the previous interest in the island on the part of the president USA Donald Trump . At the end of December 2024, before sworn in, he signaled that he wanted to possess the island and take control of it. If necessary – it can even buy it, after all, the US has already bought land in history.
Then it was a bit quieter about Greenland, because President Trump dealt with the verbal creation of Riviera in the Gaza Strip and the most real suspension of weapons supply to fighting Russian aggression Ukraine . But at the beginning of March the situation changed.
A week ago, in the first official speech before Congress, Trump He moved the thread of “Green Island” again . – I have a message for wonderful people from Greenland. I strongly support your right to determine your own future, and if you decide so, we will accept you to the United States of America – he said.
He emphasized that his administration cooperates “with all committed” to take over Greenland. “I think we'll get it in one way or another,” he added.
Promises also fell apart. – We will ensure you safety, make you rich and together we will raise Greenland to the heights, which have never seemed possible before – said Donald Trump. And he again argued that the island was necessary for the states for their own safety and for international security.
President Trump speaks at a joint meeting of the American Congress Win McNamee/PAP/EPA
On The reaction of the Greenland authorities You didn't have to wait long. “We don't want to be Americans or Danes,” Mute B. Egedy Prime Minister Greenland wrote in social media. And he added:
We are Greenlanders, Americans and their leader must understand this. (…) We are not for sale or we cannot take over us, because we decide about our future ourselves in Greenland.
Tuesday parliamentary elections are the decision about the future. What are the main threads in the Greenland election campaign? Is anything else outside of independence interested in the inhabitants of the island today? And if so, what? Tvn24.pl, dr hab. Tomasz Brańka, political scientist from the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, a specialist, among others in the field of arctic.
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In the campaign in Greenland – as Tomasz Brańka says – four main threads are outlined:
the issue of independence, island's relations from the USA, historical relations with Denmark, Life here and now.
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