The upset election

 

Credit: Arturo de Frias Marques

Greenland politics isn´t my forte, but apparently the recent elections in the territory was an upset victory for the Democrats, a centrist or centre-right party which advocates a very gradual transition to independence. Which probably means that they don´t *really* want independence. The Democrats increased their share of the votes from 9% to 29%. The other winner was Naleraq, a party of unclear political orientation which calls for increased cooperation with the United States. It increased from 12% to 25%. 

The exact votes for the two parties forming the current local government coalition, IA and Siumut, is unknown to me at the present time. IA is the leftist party of Múte Egede, the militantly anti-Trump and pro-independence chief minister of the island. Presumably, he now has to resign. The victory of the Democrats is seen as a "pro-Danish" and "anti-Trump" move by the Greenland electorate, but since the "pro-American" Naleraq is second, I still suspect that the future politics of the territory might be complicated.

It certainly looks as if Greenland´s local parliament will be evenly split between three camps: one pro-Danish, the other pro-American and the third pro-independence. Good luck with that!