Negotiations on a new Naalakkersuisut coalition – government coalition – in Greenland continue.
The left-wing party Inuit Ataqatigiit, IA, won 12 seats out of 31 seats in Inatsisartut, the Greenlandic parliament, in the April 6 election, becoming the largest party.
The party continues to negotiate with Naleraq, which won four seats, and the bourgeois party Atassut, which has two seats. You have to count to 16 to find a majority.
Following the election victory a week ago, IA chairman Múte Bourup Egede predicted a new coalition agreement after 15 April. And an agreement is reportedly approaching.
The chairman of Naleraq, Hans Enoksen, told the Greenlandic media KNR on Wednesday.
– We have come closer to finding our common course. The conversations are going well.
“It can also be felt that we have been in the opposition together with common goals, which are very crucial in our negotiations,” he told the media.
He mentions the social area, education, transport and the spread of the construction area out to the coast as topics that the parties have talked about.
The IA chairman has also met with Atassut’s Aqqalu Clasen Jerimiassen.
But the question of independence versus a commonwealth with Denmark fills a lot with the Atassut leader, writes KNR.
– We have clearly stated that we are for the time being in favor of the Commonwealth. And the other two parties have announced that they are in favor of independence. This is the clear difference, Aqqalu Clasen Jerimiassen told the media on Wednesday.
And at that point, the party will stand firm, it sounds from the chairman according to KNR.
However, there is also optimism.
– I can feel that a collaboration is very likely. It will show in the subsequent conversations. So far, we have primarily discussed topics that we can gather on, but have also talked about what we do when the talk comes on topics that differ, says the Atassut leader to KNR.
Source: The Nordic Page