Greenland has voted for a complete overhaul of its government in a shock result in which the centre-right Democrat party more than tripled its seats after a dramatic election campaign fought against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threats to acquire the Arctic island.
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Tuesday’s election, in which the Democrats replaced Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), the party of the outgoing prime minister, Múte B Egede, as the biggest party in Inatsisartut, the Greenlandic parliament, also led to a doubling of seats for Naleraq – the party most open to US collaboration and which supports a snap vote on independence – making it the second-biggest party. Both the Democrats and Naleraq favour independence from Denmark, but they differ on the pace of change
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