A proposed invoice would prohibit donations from overseas, tightening the principles forward of a basic election in April
The Greenlandic authorities is pushing to ban political donations from overseas, amid issues over overseas affect in its upcoming election and US President Donald Trump’s said aim of annexing the island, in line with paperwork printed 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 army pressure to annex the island.
The Greenlandic parliament proposed the invoice on Monday, with the aim of defending the island’s basic 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 line with Greenlandic information outlet Sermitsiaq. Feedback accompanying the invoice famous that the Cupboard of Greenland prompt the change to the presidency to attempt to tighten the principles concerning donations and defend the island’s political integrity.
The invoice have to be thought of “in mild of the geopolitical pursuits in Greenland and the present scenario, the place representatives of an allied superpower have expressed an curiosity in taking on and controlling Greenland,” the doc stated.
If adopted, the invoice would prohibit nameless and overseas donations in 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 stated.
Greenland, a former Danish colony, obtained dwelling rule from Copenhagen in 1979. The sparsely-populated 2.2 million-square-kilometer island is dwelling to round 60,000 individuals, and hosts a US army base.
Greenland’s pro-independence chief, Mute Egede, has rejected Trump’s proposal to purchase the island, stating that the individuals don’t wish to be both Danish or American.
A latest cellphone dialog between Trump and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen left Danish officers “completely freaked out,” the Monetary Occasions wrote in January.
In keeping with 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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