Trump argues that the United States needs the vast Arctic island for its security and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.
But the island’s new Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen shot back: “The United States will not get Greenland. We don’t belong to anyone else. We decide our own future.”
Yet Nielsen said last week he understood Greenlanders feeling “uneasy” over diplomatic tensions, ticking off US Vice President JD Vance for joining his wife Usha’s “private visit” to the island, which was then changed to a US military base there on Friday.
Coming less than a month after March 11's general election, researcher Signe Ravn-Hojgaard said Tuesday's vote is “not about the future of Greenland, it's about school, (about) local issues”.
“The municipality that (the capital) Nuuk is in, Sermersooq, is the world’s largest,“ and is bigger than Spain, said Ravn-Hojgaard, who runs the think-tank Digital Infrastruktur in Nuuk.
Because of the sparse and spread out population, and “relatively little news coverage, social media is more important”, the researcher added.
According to them, the general election saw a high level of disinformation on social networks.
Ravn-Hojgaard noted that “in small interconnected societies” posts need only a few shares to be seen by virtually everyone.
“It’s still going to be interesting to see whether the Democrats will be riding on that wave of surprise success,“ said Carina Ren, director of the Arctic programme at the University of Aalborg.
In 2021, almost 64 percent of eligible voters turned out to vote. Polling stations are open between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm local time (1000 and 2100 GMT).
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