While the majority of Greenland’s citizens do not want to be part of the United States, Carla Sands, former U.S. ambassador to Denmark and Greenland, told Newsmax on Thursday that “84% of Greenlanders want independence.”
The center-right, pro-business Demokraatit party on Tuesday won 30% of the vote in Greenland’s elections, nudging the country slightly more toward becoming independent. While incumbent prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has no interest in becoming part of the U.S., Sands said his victory could show signs of change and that the move toward independence will be “a process.”
“They’re to the right of center, which Greenland tends to skew far to the left of center,” Sands said on “National Report.” “The party that was in power was more like Marxist, and they tend to follow those unsustainable goals. They don’t understand the framework that’s going to lead to prosperity for the Greenlanders, which is about the classically liberal values of, say, the American constitution.”
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