A Member of Parliament came to the negotiations with the desire for Greenland to have more power over foreign policy.
The newly elected Member of Parliament Naaja Nathanielsen from IA leans towards a red government.
That’s how it sounded on Tuesday morning in front of Marienborg, where the Greenlandic politician was to meet with acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S).
– Of course we pour red.
– Right now I also find it difficult to see how the constellation should be if it were to be a blue government, said Naaja Nathanielsen before the meeting at Marienborg.
She replaces her party colleague Aaja Chemnitz and says goodbye to a post in Naalakkersuisut with the election to the Folketing.
Nathanielsen arrived at the government negotiations with a desire for Greenland to have more power over foreign policy.
As it is now, it is the Danish government that handles foreign policy matters on behalf of the Commonwealth.
– We do not believe that we need to wear spare wheels when we negotiate with other countries.
– And that way we can stand more in our own right when it comes to the Arctic, says Naaja Nathanielsen.
Question: Doesn’t the crisis with the USA show that it is good when Denmark and Greenland stand together?
– We can easily stand together and give ourselves more self-determination. The two things are not mutually exclusive, replied Naaja Nathanielsen.
She had brought her party chairman, former national executive chairman Múte B. Egede, with her to the meeting with Frederiksen.
– Because he is my chairman, was the reasoning from Nathanielsen.
Must meet again
The other newly elected Member of Parliament is Qarsoq Høegh-Dam from Naleraq.
After he had been inside Marienborg, it was said that, according to him, Greenland “has come with a clear voice”. What that voice is, he would not elaborate.
In addition, he did not have many details for the press after his meeting with Mette Frederiksen, nor whether he will support her as future prime minister.
– It really depends on the requirements, but we had a good cup of coffee, he said and added that they will meet again “later”, after which he drove away from Marienborg.
During Tuesday, the two members of parliament from the Faroe Islands – Sjúrður Skaale from the social democratic Javnaðarflokkurin and Anna Falkenberg from the bourgeois party Sambandsflokkurin – also visited Marienborg.
Skaale said on arrival in Marienborg that he points to Mette Frederiksen.
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