Greenlandic premier avoids election, despite failing to secure majority
Potential coalition partner backs out of negotiations over concerns about divisions in the premier’s party, but pledges not to overturn minority government.
September 29, 2018
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After a week of negotiations, Greenland’s centrist Demokraatit party decided today that it would not accept an invitation to join the government of Kim Kielsen, the premier and head of Siumut, its leading political party.
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