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Electoral workers counts ballots in the national general election in Nuuk, Greenland, April 6, 2021. Credit:
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Greenland’s main opposition party, which is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an early parliamentary election, according to initial results.
With all votes counted Wednesday, the left-leaning Community of the People party (Inuit Ataqatigiit) had secured 37% of the votes, entitling it to 12 seats in the Greenlandic national assembly, the 31-seat Inatsisartut.
Its biggest rival, the ruling center-left Forward (Siumut) party, took the second spot with 29% of the votes, giving it 10 seats in the legislature.
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Members of Greenland’s Inuit Ataqatigiit wave party flags as they celebrate following the exit polls results of the legislative election in Nuuk, on April 6, 2021. The party won with 36.6 per cent of the vote, defeating the ruling Siumut party which received 29.4 per cent. (Emil Helms / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images)
The future of a rare earth mineral extraction project in Greenland is now up in the air, after the left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit party won Greenland’s election on Tuesday in a campaign often dominated by the controversial mining plan.
As the dust settled Wednesday, elections Greenland reported Inuit Ataqatigiit won with 36.6 per cent of the vote, defeating the ruling Siumut party which received 29.4 per cent.
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