COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland’s Democrats will announce a four-party coalition government on Friday, broadcaster KNR reported on Thursday, not identifying its sources, following an election overshadowed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in taking control of the island.
The expected announcement of a broad coalition would come on the day that U.S. Vice President JD Vance is set to visit a U.S. military base on the Arctic island, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.
The coming announcement of the new broad government coalition was confirmed to Reuters by one anonymous source familiar with the talks.
The source said the new government would be led by Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of pro-business party the Democrats, which emerged as the biggest party in a March 11 general election.
Since taking office in January, Trump has vowed to make Greenland part of the United States, saying it is vital to U.S. security interests, an idea rejected by most Greenlanders.
Nielsen had urged the parties to set aside disagreements and swiftly form a broad coalition government to show unity in the face of Trump’s campaign to annex the territory.
(Reporting by Stine Jacobsen and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, editing by Anna Ringstrom and Ros Russell)
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