Mette Frederiksen's visit splits the Greenland government before it even starts

Mette Frederiksen's visit splits Greenland's government before it even starts

According to Siumut's leader, Mette Frederiksen should have waited for the new government to be officially approved.

Although the incoming government leader, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, understands Vivian Motzfeldt's statements about the visit being too early, he looks forward to the prime minister's visit. (Photo: © LEONHARD FOEGER, Ritzau Scanpix)

By Tobias Leth Klinge ([email protected]) Joshua Ursin Hollingdale (interview) 24 minutes ago

The new coalition agreement for Greenland is called "We stand together for a safe and free Greenland, which is developing."

However, already before the new government has taken office, Mette Frederiksen's visit today has created open disagreement among several parties in the coalition government.

On one side stands Demokraatit's leader and government leader Jens Frederik-Nielsen. He is "incredibly happy" that Mette Frederiksen is already visiting.

- The world situation and the foreign policy situation make it necessary for us to meet as quickly as possible.

- We will have to show the world that we are united in this time, says he in an interview with DR.

On the other side stand the leaders of Siumut and Atassut. They believe that Mette Frederiksen (S) should have waited until the new government has been officially approved by the Greenlandic parliament on Monday.

- I think it's very important that everything first gets in place: The new parliament should be approved, and the new government should be approved by the parliament, says Siumut's leader Vivian Motzfeldt to DR.

She explains it like this:

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Handling about a few days

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Vivian Motzfeldt says that Mette Frederiksen is very welcome. However, because she does not wait until after Monday, the visit will be both with the outgoing and incoming government, she says.

- So it would have been much, much nicer if everything first got in place, and she then came on a much more official background.

She does not see disagreements as splitting the parties in the coalition.

- In politics, there should be room for people to express their opinions, she says.

Is unity not really important in the situation where Donald Trump will not reject an annexation?

- Unity is very important. It's just about a few days, she says.

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'I think it's completely fine'

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Although Jens-Frederik Nielsen understands Vivian Motzfeldt's statements about the visit being too early, he looks forward to the prime minister's "greeting visit" today, which he calls it.

And he agrees that unity has come a little poorly from the start with disagreement between him and Motzfeldt.

- It's maybe not so positive.

- But for my part, the upcoming Naalakkersuisut's (the Greenlandic government, ed.) stance is that we should sit much closer together in the bus in relation to the foreign policy situation that is now.

But you are disagreeing about this. Isn't that a problem?

- It's right that we as a government will be constituted on Monday. It also makes the new parliament.

- So discussions about when the visit should be can always take place. I think it's completely fine. And I am very, very happy that the prime minister wants to come on a visit, she says.

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