Greenland voices on Tuesday because Trump wants to take control of the strategic island

Nuuk, Greenland – Individual polling station in Greenland The capital is ready.

This big Arctic island With a small population keeps the early parliamentary elections on Tuesday who are closely viewed. U.S. President Donald Trump is clear wants to take control of Regions occupying a strategic north-wing location and contains the key to rare terrestrial minerals for driving the global economy.

Trump exaggerations are not on the ballot, but they are in everyone’s mind.

This self-governing region Danish home is 56,000 people, most of the indigenous inuit backgrounds. It is on the way to independence since at least 2009. years, now Greenlanders discusses the best way to ensure that they control their future.

“I think most of us scared us from the new year because of (Trump) of the” Pipaluk Lynge, member of the parliament from the ruling Inuit Ataqatigiit or United Intuit Party, he said in the United Intuit Party. “So, we’re really, we’re really looking at Europe to see if we can make a stronger relationship with them to ensure our sovereign nation.”

Public opinion polls show most Greenland the affection of independence.

They say the most that they don’t like Americans, pointing out good relationships with the local Pituffik Space Base, the earlier Thule Air Base, where the US military personnel is stationed since 1951.

But Greenlanders show no sign that they want to become Americans. Even some Trump’s biggest fans clinging to the principle that they should control their destiny. It includes Gerth Josefsen, a 53-year-old Nuuka fisherman who sports a magic hat and is proud to visit the Mar-Lago, trump in Florida home.

Their mantra is that Greenland is open to work, but Not for sale.

“The situation has changed due to Trump and the world,” Doris Jensen said, a representative of the Social Democratic Siutske Party who said that he was always favored in our party that we must have done faster quickly. “

Trump attention turned a deep local process of democracy. Suddenly, the presence of journalists from as far away from Japan and Croatia are a reminder that they are far from normal times.

After the final television discussion in the School Auditorium in NUUK, Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egege welcomed about 75 supporters who were photographed and cameramen.

“All these journalists are frightening us,” said Aviaj Solcbaek, who works at school. “That means that something must happen soon.”

She added: “I wonder what Trump has sleeve.”

Greenland politics has a different rhythm. Discussions during the campaign rarely heat up. People who have become too animated asked to go outside. The questions involved the construction of a qualified labor and how to decorate the new airport, which opened the runway long enough to handle Jumbo nozzles in November.

On Tuesday, a lonely polling station in the main birnian hall in Nuuk Sports Hall, with campaigns offer warm drinks and greenlands – grape bread – in the hope of swelling voters.

The bus will round the city of about 20,000 people, offering driving.

Unofficial electoral results should be available soon after surveys are closed, but will not be certified weeks because voting leaves travel to capital from remote settlements by ship, planes and helicopter.

This is because there are no roads that link communities across the island of 2.16 million square kilometers (836,330 square miles), which consists of Greenland 12. The largest country of the world.

Now great size has pulled attention.

Greenlanders know what they have. They hope that rare minerals of the country will help diversify the economy in which government affairs account for 40% of employment.

But the government has imposed strict rules for environmental protection on the island, most of which are covered with icy all year round. Sharp atmospheric atmospheric conditions ask questions about whether the extraction is commercially feasible.

Leaving and current strength for the weekend launched warnings for ships and construction materials for certainly tied. While the wind is pasted like the original jet engine, local people retreated into their homes to play a boarding house.