Not in Greenland. The two left-leaning parties collectively lost 11 seats in the 2025 election and now only hold 11 of 31 seats. It's their worst result in the entire history of Greenland's elected parliament, which from its inception in 1979 until now always had a left-wing majority.
Not in Greenland. The two left-leaning parties collectively lost 11 seats in the 2025 election and now only hold 11 of 31 seats. It's their worst result in the entire history of Greenland's elected parliament, which from its inception in 1979 until now always had a left-wing majority.
Nationalism is complicated in Greenland. Do you mean Danish nationalism or Greenlandic nationalism? The pro-Danish parties did very well in the election, no doubt because the threats from Trump made Greenlandic independence more questionable. But the most stauntly pro-independence party, Naleraq, also did very well. Naleraq officially favours closer ties to the US, but in the context of an independent Greenland. The failure of the left parties may have also been due to socio-economic issues, which were another major topic in the campaign.
The winning party, the Demokraatit, is a traditional liberal party, whose leader will now be the PM. He is the most pro Denmark and anti-Trump of all the leaders in Greenland which is why the party came from almost nowhere to becoming the biggest player. It wasn't left-right; it was anti-Trump.
So the government got shuffled to more pro-status quo because the independence parties couldn't answer what would happen if the US mobilized from Thule to seize Nuuk (with shock and awe with no shots fired) and they didn't have Denmark or NATO to deter such a thing anymore?
Pretty much so. The NATO angle is very convoluted but it pays to stand up to Trump. That should be a lesson to weak-kneed leaders in the US and elsewhere.
Not in Greenland. The two left-leaning parties collectively lost 11 seats in the 2025 election and now only hold 11 of 31 seats. It's their worst result in the entire history of Greenland's elected parliament, which from its inception in 1979 until now always had a left-wing majority.
Does the Greenland coalition at least demonstrate the strengthening of nationalist opposition to Trump's American expansionism?
Nationalism is complicated in Greenland. Do you mean Danish nationalism or Greenlandic nationalism? The pro-Danish parties did very well in the election, no doubt because the threats from Trump made Greenlandic independence more questionable. But the most stauntly pro-independence party, Naleraq, also did very well. Naleraq officially favours closer ties to the US, but in the context of an independent Greenland. The failure of the left parties may have also been due to socio-economic issues, which were another major topic in the campaign.
The winning party, the Demokraatit, is a traditional liberal party, whose leader will now be the PM. He is the most pro Denmark and anti-Trump of all the leaders in Greenland which is why the party came from almost nowhere to becoming the biggest player. It wasn't left-right; it was anti-Trump.
So the government got shuffled to more pro-status quo because the independence parties couldn't answer what would happen if the US mobilized from Thule to seize Nuuk (with shock and awe with no shots fired) and they didn't have Denmark or NATO to deter such a thing anymore?
Pretty much so. The NATO angle is very convoluted but it pays to stand up to Trump. That should be a lesson to weak-kneed leaders in the US and elsewhere.