Greenland’s largest opposition party, the Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), is making significant progress in the city of Narsaq in both the Inatsisartut (parliamentary) election and the local elections.
This is shown by the preliminary election results, the Greenlandic media KNR writes on the night before Wednesday Danish time.
Narsaq has been the center of one of the election campaign’s major topics, namely the mining project at Kuannersuit.
The IA has declared itself opposed to the project, while the ruling party Siumut is generally positive about it.
According to KNR, 66.9 percent of voters in Narsaq voted for IA in the parliamentary elections.
This corresponds to 539 votes and is a significant increase of 28.5 percentage points for IA compared to the election in 2018.
According to KNR, Greenland’s traditionally largest party, the Social Democratic Siumut, gets 141 votes against 209 in the last election.
That is a decline of 8.4 percentage points compared to the previous election.
Also in the local elections in Narsaq, IA is storming forward. The party stands to get over 70 percent of the vote against almost 39 percent in the most recent local elections in 2017.
Support for Siumut has more than halved to 23.9 percent.
The election results from Narsaq have yet to be finally approved by the election committee, writes KNR.
Source: The Nordic Page