Consulate to protest against President Trump’s policy towards Greenland, Saturday, Jan.
Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of European Union defense ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Feb.
Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen, centre left, and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen walk in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan.
Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, Sept.
President Donald Trump over the future of the kingdom’s semiautonomous territory of Greenland.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the election last month, apparently hoping that her straight-talking image in the Greenland crisis would win her points with the electorate.
If the leader of the center-left Social Democratic party can put together a new government after Tuesday’s vote, she will embark on her third term.
The 48-year-old prime minister has led the European Union and NATO member country since mid-2019.
She is known for strong support of Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion and for a restrictive approach to migration.
In her second term, her support waned as the cost of living rose.
But she enjoyed a bump in popularity as the government navigated the crisis over Trump’s designs on Greenland, which culminated in January in a short-lived threat to impose tariffs on European nations that opposed his call for U.S.
The political importance lies in whether the issue moves from public comment into formal action, party response, court record, election authority notice or administrative decision.
