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Greenland, with the new Inuit prime minister, the environmentalist and independence turn begins

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BERLIN – The independence, left and environmentalist turn of the Inuit is now something done in Greenland. Following the early elections on 6 April, the leader of the Inuit party Ataqatigiit, Mute Egede, is the new prime minister of the “Ice Republic”, the Danish autonomous territory of the largest island in the northern hemisphere. Inuit Ataqatigiit formed a coalition with the other independence Inuit party, Naleraq, and together the two political forces formed a new majority with 16 of the 31 seats in the parliament of the capital Nuuk. The Siumut of the former Social Democratic premier moderate and favorable to the imperatives of economic growth passes to the opposition, Kim Kielsen. Siumut had been a ruling party for years. The executive of the new premier Mute Egede will also enjoy the external support of the Inuit party but in favor of the continuation of the special relationship with Copenhagen, Atassut, which has 2 seats in the new legislative assembly.

“We want the independence and economic prosperity of our people, but taking into account the imperative not to produce wealth at the expense of the climate and the environment,” said the neopremier in his inaugural speech. He thus confirmed his electoral program which has now become a government program: Greenland will say no to the exploitation of the large uranium and rare earth mines in the southern area of ​​Kvanefjeld, which mainly interested the Chinese giant Shenghe mining company, shoulder and partner-commander of the Australian company Greenland minerals.

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The vote in the early elections on the island of 56,000 inhabitants was in fact primarily a referendum that answered the question of whether or not the Greenlanders wanted to exploit those mines to finance independence. Siumut was in favor, arguing that the proceeds could finance the secondment from Copenhagen. Inuit Ataqatigiit instead argued that in general the exploitation of natural resources is fine in the name of the objective of independence but that in the case of the Kvanefjeld fields the dangers for the environment, climate and health of citizens are too many. In the polls, 52 percent of Greenlanders are generally in favor of the fields but only 29 approved that case of exploitation of uranium and rare earths. Danish subsidies are absolutely insufficient to solve the very serious problems of Greenland: widespread poverty, illiteracy, alcoholism, marginalization even when they emigrate to work in the former colonial homeland.

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