Pro-business opposition party leads Greenland election

March 11, 2025 11:24 PM EDT

People line up to vote inside a polling station during the general elections, in Nuuk, Greenland, March 11, 2025. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via REUTERS

NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - Greenland's pro-business opposition Demokraatit party held a clear lead after most votes were counted in Tuesday's closely watched parliamentary election, in a vote dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to take control over the island.

Demokraatit, which favours a slow approach to independence from Denmark, won 30.4% of the votes in the election with over 90% of ballots counted, up from 9.1% in 2021, ahead of the opposition Naleraq party, which favours rapid independence, at 23.7%.

(Reporting by Tom Little in Nuuk and Stine Jacobsen in Copenhagen, editing by Terje Solsvik)



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