A proposed invoice would prohibit donations from overseas, tightening the principles forward of a normal election in April
The Greenlandic authorities is pushing to ban political donations from overseas, amid considerations over overseas affect in its upcoming election and US President Donald Trump’s acknowledged purpose of annexing the island, in response to paperwork revealed by the federal government on Monday.
Trump has repeatedly expressed curiosity in taking the resource-rich Danish abroad territory for the US, regardless of refusals from each Denmark and Greenland’s leaders. Early final month, he refused to rule out using navy power to annex the island.
The Greenlandic parliament proposed the invoice on Monday, with the purpose of defending the island’s normal election in April from potential interference. The federal government in Nuuk is pushing for an pressing parliamentary vote to be carried out on Tuesday, in response to Greenlandic information outlet Sermitsiaq. Feedback accompanying the invoice famous that the Cupboard of Greenland recommended the change to the presidency to attempt to tighten the principles relating to donations and defend the island’s political integrity.
The invoice should be thought of “in gentle of the geopolitical pursuits in Greenland and the present scenario, the place representatives of an allied superpower have expressed an curiosity in taking up and controlling Greenland,” the doc mentioned.
If adopted, the invoice would prohibit nameless and overseas donations in the direction of political work on the Arctic island. The ban would have an effect on political events, together with their native and youth branches, barring them from receiving non-public contributions in extra of 200,000 Danish krone ($27,700), or 20,000 ($2,770) from a single contributor, the invoice mentioned.
Greenland, a former Danish colony, obtained house rule from Copenhagen in 1979. The sparsely-populated 2.2 million-square-kilometer island is house to round 60,000 individuals, and hosts a US navy base.
Greenland’s pro-independence chief, Mute Egede, has rejected Trump’s proposal to purchase the island, stating that the individuals don’t need to be both Danish or American.
A latest telephone dialog between Trump and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen left Danish officers “totally freaked out,” the Monetary Occasions wrote in January.
Based on FT’s sources, the dialog was a “chilly bathe” for European officers, dashing their earlier impression that Trump’s statements about annexing Greenland have been only a negotiating tactic to achieve extra affect within the Arctic and get a leg up on Russia and China.
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