85 percent of those over the age of 65 do not believe that Greenland should leave the Commonwealth if this will lead to a lower standard of living for the Greenlandic population. This is shown by a new opinion poll.
do you think that a withdrawal from the Commonwealth will mean a lower standard of living for the individual citizen in Greenland?
“Yes,” answered more than three quarters of the +65-year-olds in a new poll conducted by voter analyst Sune Steffen Hansen from Copenhagen Post, with Opinion Danmark A/S as data supplier.
For the younger age groups, around half of them answer “yes” to the same question.
Three questions in the recently conducted opinion polls are about the standard of living in Greenland in connection with independence, and generally the oldest are the most worried.
70 percent of those over 65 believe that a withdrawal from the Commonwealth will mean a worse economy for Greenlandic society. For the three other age groups under 18, between 45 and 50 percent of them believe the same.
The elderly do not want to leave the Commonwealth
Not surprisingly, it is also those over the age of 65 who are most convinced that Greenland should not leave the Commonwealth if this will lead to a lower standard of living for the Greenlandic population. That corresponds to 70 percent of them.
– The older citizens are typically more dependent on welfare benefits, and therefore the appetite for something else – and more uncertain – is often small, says Sune Steffen Hansen and continues:
– For this group, security becomes one of the most decisive factors, also when it comes to political priorities. Incidentally, we also see this pattern in other countries.
Just under a quarter of all respondents in the opinion poll believe that Greenland should leave the Commonwealth no matter what. Just as many answered “don’t know” to the same question.
62 percent of all respondents answer “no” to the fact that Greenland should leave the Commonwealth and become independent now.
Again, those over 65 are the most confident, with 85 percent answering no.
In the younger age groups, around a quarter believe that Greenland should become independent now.
