(12 Mar 2025)
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Nuuk, Greenland – 11 March -2025
1. Staff showing empty ballot boxes
2. Voters queuing up to vote
3. Greenland’s prime minister Múte Bourup Egede queuing to vote
4. Voters queuing
5. Close of Greenland flag
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheila Geisler Kristiansen, 35, voter: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT4 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 5& PARTIALLY BY SHOT7++
"I’ve got to vote for those who back us up in Greenland as Inuit and we don’t want to be Americans. Like, I don’t want to be American nor Danish. I’m Inuit."
7. Candidates’ pictures being stapled onto poster
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Henrik Grabe, 48, voter:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 9-10 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT 11++
"I mean, I think it’s good that Greenland is getting some attention, but I don’t think that the attention from Trump is particularly positive. I think that generally he’s creating a lot of instability in the world. But I also think that it’s good because, you know, it makes the European community think about what to do with Greenland and how to collaborate with Greenland."
9. Various of last voters queuing outside at dusk
10. Various of the last voters casting their ballot
11. Boxes
12. Various of ballots being sorted by counters
STORYLINE:
The polling station in Greenland’s capital closed Tuesday in a parliamentary election that will determine the leaders who will confront U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the strategically placed Arctic country.
Huge crowds streamed into the polling station in the capital, Nuuk, throughout the day, warmed by sunny skies. Exhausted voting officials closed the polls well after the planned 8 p.m. local time (2200 GMT) to make sure everyone in line got a chance to cast their ballot.
Bea Mølgaard Lennert, voting team leader at a polling station in Nuuk, told the Associated Press turnout was high. "We feel that because almost in the 12 hours we have been open. It’s all the people, it’s full all the time," she said.
Unofficial election results should be available in the coming hours, but they won’t be certified for weeks as paper ballots make their way to the capital from remote settlements by boat, plane and helicopter.
Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede in February called elections a bit early, saying the country needed to be united during a “serious time” that is unlike anything Greenland has ever experienced.
Greenland, a self-governing region of Denmark, straddles strategic air and sea routes in the North Atlantic and has rich deposits of the rare earth minerals needed to make everything from mobile phones to renewable energy technology.
Trump has been outspoken about his desire to control Greenland, telling a joint session of Congress last week that he thought the U.S. was going to get it “one way or the other.”
While the island of 56-thousand people has been on a path toward independence since at least 2009, a break from Denmark isn’t on the ballot — even though it’s on everyone’s mind. Voters will instead elect 31 lawmakers who will shape the island’s future at a defining moment in history: Should Greenland declare independence?
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