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I think we're going to get it one way or the other.
We will continue to KEEP YOU SAFE, as we have since World War II,
he wrote on his Truth Social account We don’t want to be Americans. No, we don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders. And we want our own independence in the future.”
Most politicians want Greenland to be independent. But this party who won, they don’t want to hurry things, so everything must be done right.”
We will work with the people of the country to honor the power they have given us. Without exception, thank you all for the day."
Pele Broberg, the Naleraq party's leader, said Greenland needs us to stand together,
Nielsen told the territory’s public broadcaster, KNR It's not the case that you can just take part of the Danish Realm — the future of Greenland is based on what the Greenlandic people and government want,
We are in the midst of an exciting and crucial time in the relationship between Greenland and Denmark
Trump and Musk lost the election in Greenland as hard as you can lose an election in a country you have virtually nothing to do with and never will."
Seth Abramson, an American political columnist, wrote on X, formerly Twitter If you add up the election result, voters were driven by business development and independence. And that's good news for Trump,
said Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, a professor in political science at the University of Copenhagen Demokraatit is quite clear that Greenland, as its leader put it, is not a house that can simply be bought,
Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes of the Polar Research Institute & Policy Initiative said Naleraq, which saw its support soar considerably and which came in second, is mainly known for seeking rapid (rather than gradual) independence but is also seen to be more positively disposed towards the US. That said, their interest seems to be much more in exploring avenues for further cooperation or possibly even free association (at least to one of its politicians), rather than putting Greenland up for sale."
There is a need for unity, so we will enter into negotiations with everyone,
A big victory for the Naleraq Party will be seen as a victory for Donald Trump,
What approach to independence will win the day will ultimately depend on if Demokraatit decides to form a coalition government, and if so, with which party,
said Dwayne Menezes, managing director of the Polar Research and Policy Initiative I think this is a historic result in Greenland's political history,
Demokraatit party leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen said at the election party after the results We are ready to INVEST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to create new jobs and MAKE YOU RICH,
he wrote in a social media post The new Greenlandic government is unlikely to rush into major shifts in U.S. relations anytime soon,
All of these issues … are happening against the backdrop of climate change in the Arctic that is decades and decades into this accelerated pace of warming at three to four times the global average,
Geopolitics is highly relevant, ... but it's also distracting from the longer term and, in many ways, far more grave implications of climate change."