Greenland: Parliamentary elections underway amid U.S. threats

Voting is underway in Greenland’s parliamentary elections as Islanders head to the polls on Tuesday amid ongoing U.S. threats.

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00:00Voting is underway in Greenland's parliamentary elections as Icelanders head to the polls

00:05on Tuesday amid ongoing U.S. threats.

00:08With an expected voter turnout of 70-75%, Greenlanders will elect 31 members to their

00:15parliament among the six running parties.

00:18In this regard, according to previous polls, main candidates belong to the sitting Social

00:22Democratic Summit party, the left-wing Innutu Ataqa pro-independence Naleraq centre-right

00:30Democratic and the Liberal Conservative Asasut.

00:33The island's Prime Minister Mute B. Egete called early parliamentary elections amid

00:38threats by U.S. President Donald Trump of annexing the territory and turning it into

00:43a strategic area aiming to seize control of their mineral-rich homeland.

00:53We are not for sale and someone should make it more clearly to Donald Trump that he has

00:59to stop playing.

01:04I hope the Greenlandic people will vote with their senses today and not by greed and they

01:12will not be seduced by greed and I don't want to mention his name.