Hans Enoksen is a Greenlandic politician who served as the third prime minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009.
Jonathan Jakob Jørgen Otto Motzfeldt was a Greenlandic priest and politician. He is considered one of the leading figures in the establishment of Greenland Home Rule. Jonathan Motzfeldt was the first prime minister of Greenland. He was Greenland's prime minister from 1979 until 1991 and again from 1997 until 2002. He was Greenland's longest serving prime minister and won the most elections of any prime minister of Greenland. He is considered a centre-left politician and Greenland became a recognized country during his tenure.
Siumut is a political party in Greenland in the social democratic tradition. Since the establishment of home rule in 1979,it has been the dominant party in Greenland. Siumut is led by Erik Jensen,who beat the then-incumbent Prime Minister Kim Kielsen in a tight leadership contest in late 2020.
Greenland elects on national level a legislature. The Greenlandic Parliament has 31 members of parliament,elected for a four-year term by proportional representation. Greenland has a multi-party system,with numerous parties in which a single party normally does not have a chance of gaining power alone,and therefore the parties must work together in order to form a coalition government.
General elections were held in Greenland on 2 June 2009. Prime Minister Hans Enoksen announced the election date on 15 April 2009,stating that he would prefer for a newly elected parliament to administer Greenland when the self-government reform took effect on 21 June 2009. The reform gave more power to the Greenlandic parliament with decisions on most issues being devolved to the parliament but defence and foreign affairs remaining under the control of Denmark.
Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Greenland between 2009 and 2013. A member of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party,he was the first prime minister not affiliated with Siumut.
The Naalakkersuisut is the chief executive body and the government of Greenland since the island became self-governing in 1979. An autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark,Greenland is a parliamentary representative democratic territory,in which the premier leads the cabinet,and of a multi-party system.
Greenlandic independence is a political ambition of some political parties,advocacy groups,and individuals of Greenland,an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark,to become an independent sovereign state.
Aleqa Hammond is a Greenlandic politician and former member of the Danish Folketing (parliament). Formerly the leader of the Siumut party,she became Greenland's first female prime minister after her party emerged as the largest parliamentary faction in the 2013 elections. In 2014 she stepped down as prime minister and leader of Siumut,following a case of misuse of public funds. She was expelled from Siumut on 23 August 2016 after yet another case of misuse of public funds and became an independent. On 31 March 2018 she announced that she would be running in the 2018 Greenlandic parliamentary election for the Siumut breakaway Nunatta Qitornai.
Kim Kielsen is a Greenlandic politician,who served as leader of the Siumut party and sixth prime minister of Greenland between 2014 and 2021.
The First Cabinet of Kim Kielsen was a former administration of Greenland. It was appointed on 10 December 2014 with Kim Kielsen from Forward (Siumut) as Prime Minister,leading a coalition between Forward (Siumut),Democrats (Demokraatit) and Solidarity (Atassut). It was a majority government,composed of both right-wing and left-wing members. It was replaced by the Kielsen II Cabinet on 2 February 2016.
General elections were held in Greenland on 24 April 2018,electing all 31 members of Parliament. The elections were required to be held no later than 26 November 2018,four years after the previous elections on 27 November 2014,but Prime Minister Kim Kielsen chose to call the elections seven months early. His Siumut party remained the largest in Parliament,but lost two seats,whilst Inuit Ataqatigiit,the second-largest party,lost three seats. The smaller Democrats and Partii Naleraq gained seats,with the newly formed Cooperation Party and Nunatta Qitornai parties both entering Parliament.
Nunatta Qitornai is a separatist political party in Greenland advocating independence. It was founded in September 2017 by former Minister of Business,Labour,Trade and Foreign Affairs Vittus Qujaukitsoq,who had previously been in Siumut and who was subsequently elected in the 2018 Greenlandic parliamentary elections. In the 2021 elections the party lost its seat.
Since 1867,the United States has considered,or made,several proposals to purchase the island of Greenland from Denmark,as it did with the Danish West Indies in 1917. While Greenland remains an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark,a 1951 treaty gives the United States much control over an island it once partially claimed from exploration.
Vittus Qujaukitsoq is a Greenlandic politician. Qujaukitsoq was appointed as Minister of Finance and Interior of Aleqa Hammond cabinet from May 2013 to November 2014. After November 2014 to 2017 Qujaukitsoq was Minister of Industry,Labour,Trade and Foreign Affairs of Kim Kielsen cabinet. After disagreements on complaint to United Nations for environmental restoration of former U.S. Military installations in Greenland. He was previously a member of Siumut,and served as Minister of Industry,Labour,Trade and Foreign Affairs,caretaker as Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs on two occasions during 2014-2017 in the Kielsen government.
Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede is a Greenlandic politician serving as the seventh prime minister of Greenland,a position he has held since April 2021. He has served as a member of the Inatsisartut,the parliament of Greenland,since 2015,and furthermore as chairman of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party since 2018.
Snap general elections were held in Greenland on 6 April 2021 alongside local elections. Inuit Ataqatigiit emerged as the largest party,winning 12 of the 31 seats in the Inatsisartut. The governing Siumut party finished second with 10 seats.
Vivian Motzfeldt is a Greenlandic politician who was the speaker of the Inatsisartut,the Parliament of Greenland,and the deputy chairwoman of Siumut. In the fifth cabinet of Kim Kielsen,Motzfeldt was the minister of education,culture,church and foreign affairs.
Jess Kristian Svane is a Greenlandic politician (Siumut).
Pitsi Høegh is a Greenlandic politician affiliated with Siumut.
