Nunatta Qitornai ( da, Vort lands efterkommere, en, Descendants of Our Land) is a separatist

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advocating

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. It was founded in September 2017 by former Minister of Business, Labour, Trade and Foreign Affairs

Vittus Qujaukitsoq Vittus Qujaukitsoq (born October 5, 1971 in Qaanaaq, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark) is a Greenlandic politician. Qujaukitsoq was appointed as Minister of Finance and Interior of Aleqa Hammond cabinet from May 2013 to November 2014. After Novembe ...

, who had previously been in

Siumut Siumut (, ) is a political party in Greenland in the social democratic tradition. Since the establishment of home rule in 1979, it has been the dominant party in Greenland. Siumut is led by Erik Jensen, who beat the then-incumbent Prime Ministe ...

and who was subsequently elected in the 2018 Greenlandic parliamentary elections. In the

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the party lost its seat.

Background

In April 2017 Vittus Qujaukitsoq was relieved from the Foreign Affairs portfolio in the Greenlandic government by Premier

Kim Kielsen Kim Kielsen (born 30 November 1966) is a Greenlandic politician, who served as leader of the Siumut party and sixth prime minister of Greenland between 2014 and 2021. Careers Past careers Kielsen was originally a mariner, and then a police office ...

due to harsh criticism of the Danish handling and filed formal complaint to United Nations with demands of the environmental clean-up of former U.S. military installations across Greenland. He stepped down as Minister of Industry, Trade, Labour and Energy in May 2017. He subsequently challenged Kielsen for the chairmanship at Siumut's party conference in July 2017, and left the party after he lost the vote 19–48. Vittus Qujaukitsoq advocates a speedy transition to

Greenlandic independence Greenlandic independence ( da, Grønlandsk uafhængighed, kl, Kalaallisuut kiffaanngissusiat) is a political ambition of some political parties (such as Siumut, Inuit Ataqatigiit, Partii Naleraq, and Nunatta Qitornai), advocacy groups, and indiv ...

, whereas Kim Kielsen and the majority in Siumut are in favour of a gradualist approach. The party stood in the 2018 parliamentary elections with former Prime Minister

Aleqa Hammond Aleqa Hammond (born 23 September 1965) is a Greenlandic politician and former member of the Danish Folketing (parliament). Formerly the leader of the Siumut party, she became Greenland's first female prime minister after her party emerged as the l ...

as one of its candidates, but only chairman Vittus Qujaukitsoq was elected. In the 2021 election the party lost its only seat.

Policies

Apart from the speedy establishment of a Greenlandic state the party advocates decentralization of the administration and the establishment of 17 municipalities based on the current population distribution.

Name

Nunavta Qitornai (pre-1973 spelling) was the name of a

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and educational

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founded in 1941 by the politician and poet

Augo Lynge Augustinus "Augo" Telef Nis Lynge (born 16 October 1899 in Fiskenæsset (today Qeqertarsuatsiaat) – died 30 January 1959 off Cape Farewell, Greenland) was a Greenlandic politician, educator, poet, novelist and Kalaaleq nationalist who was the ...

, who was a prominent advocate for close cooperation between Greenland and Denmark and the incorporation of Greenland into the Danish state; his grandchild has criticized the use of the name for a separatist party as disrespectful to the memory of Augo Lynge.

Election results

Parliament of Greenland The Inatsisartut ( kl, Inatsisartut; '' da, Landstinget, lit=''the land's- thing'' of Greenland''), also known as the Parliament of Greenland in English, is the unicameral parliament (legislative branch) of Greenland, an autonomous territory* ...

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References

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