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Greenland’s likely new prime minister rejects Trump takeover efforts

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Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of the Demokraatit party, in Nuuk, Greenland, on 8 March 2025. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Greenland’s probable new prime minister has rejected Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the island, saying Greenlanders must be allowed to decide their own future as it moves toward independence from Denmark.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, whose centre-right Democrats won a surprise victory in this week’s legislative elections and now must form a coalition government, pushed back on Thursday against Trump’s repeated claims that the US will annex the island.

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