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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Greenland votes for change but coalition talks will govern how it reacts to Trump

Greenlandic politician Jens Frederik Nielsen plays guitar for a small audience of supporters, accompanied by a keyboard player and a bassist.
Jens Frederik Nielsen, the leader of Greenland’s victorious Democrats, plays guitar at an election party in Nuuk on Wednesday. Photograph: Mads Claus Rasmussen/AP

It was an election that was fought on the global stage with sporadic commentary from Donald Trump. But in the end, it was domestic issues that drove Greenlanders to the polls to vote overwhelmingly for change.

Ever since his son, Donald Trump Jr, touched down in a Trump-branded plane at Nuuk’s new airport in January, the US president has made no secret of his renewed desire to gain control of the Arctic island, refusing to rule out economic or military force to do so.

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