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2021 Greenlandic Local Elections
The 2021 Greenlandic local elections were held on 6 April 2021 for the 5 municipal councils. In the 2017 elections, Forward remained the largest party.Greenland’s parliament calls an early election Arctic Today, 17 February 2021 The , along with District council and parish elections, will be held on the same day. In the there were 81 seats up for election. Results Results of munici ...
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Jens Frederik Nielsen
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Jens may refer to: * Jens (given name), a list of people with the name * Jens (surname), a list of people * Jens, Switzerland, a municipality * 1719 Jens, an asteroid See also * Jensen (other) * Jenssi Joensuu (; krl, Jovensuu; ) is a city and municipality in North Karelia, Finland, located on the northern shore of Lake Pyhäselkä (northern part of Lake Saimaa) at the mouth of the Pielinen River (''Pielisjoki''). It was founded in 1848. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qeqqata
Qeqqata (, da, Centrum, lit=Centre) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. The administrative center of the municipality is in Sisimiut (formerly called Holsteinsborg). Creation It consists of the previously unincorporated area of Kangerlussuaq, as well as two former municipalities of western Greenland, Maniitsoq and Sisimiut. Geography In the south and east, the municipality is flanked by the Sermersooq municipality, although settlements and associated trade is concentrated mainly alongside the coast. In the north, it is bordered by the Qeqertalik municipality. The waters of the western coast are that of the Davis Strait, separating Greenland from Baffin Island. With an area of it is the second-smallest municipality of Greenland after Kujalleq. Politics Qeqqata's municipal council consists of 15 members, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Ludvigsen
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populous city in the U.S., the seventh most populous city in the South, and the second most populous city in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose 2020 population of 2,660,329 ranked 22nd in the U.S. Metrolina is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2020 census-estimated population of 2,846,550. Between 2004 and 2014, Charlotte was ranked as the country's fastest-growing metro area, with 888,000 new residents. Based on U.S. Census data from 2005 to 2015, Charlotte tops the U.S. in millennial population growth. It is the third-fastest-growing major city in the United States. Residents are referred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sermersooq Municipality
Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous municipality in the country, with 23,123 inhabitants as of January 2020. Creation The municipality consists of former municipalities of eastern and southwestern Greenland, each named after the largest settlement at the time of formation: * Ammassalik Municipality * Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality * Ivittuut Municipality * Nuuk Municipality * Paamiut Municipality Administrative divisions Ammassalik area * Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) * Kuummiit * Kulusuk (Kap Dan) * Tiniteqilaaq * Sermiligaaq * Isortoq Ittoqqortoormiit area * Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) * Itterajivit Ivittuut area * Kangilinnguit (Grønnedal) Nuuk area * Nuuk (Godthåb) * Kapisillit * Qeqertarsuatsiaat (Fiskenæ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malik Berthelsen
Malik Berthelsen is a Greenlandic politician serving as the Mayor of Qeqqata, chairman of the Qeqqata municipal council, and a former member of the Parliament of Greenland, the Inatsisartut. Political career From 2009 to 2013, Berthelsen was a member of the Inatsisartut. In the 2017 Greenlandic local elections, Berthelsen was elected mayor of Qeqqata, succeeding Hermann Berthelsen who had previously been mayor since 1999. Berthelsen has focused on transportation and has been a proponent of the construction of a road would connect Sisimiut to Kangerlussuaq Kangerlussuaq (; ; da, Søndre Strømfjord), is a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality located at the head of the fjord of the same name. It is Greenland's main air transport hub and the site of Greenland's largest commer .... This would be Greenland's first ever road project linking one settlement to another. References Year of birth missing (living people) Mayors of places in Greenland Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qeqqata Municipality
Qeqqata (, da, Centrum, lit=Centre) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. The administrative center of the municipality is in Sisimiut (formerly called Holsteinsborg). Creation It consists of the previously unincorporated area of Kangerlussuaq, as well as two former municipalities of western Greenland, Maniitsoq and Sisimiut. Geography In the south and east, the municipality is flanked by the Sermersooq municipality, although settlements and associated trade is concentrated mainly alongside the coast. In the north, it is bordered by the Qeqertalik municipality. The waters of the western coast are that of the Davis Strait, separating Greenland from Baffin Island. With an area of it is the second-smallest municipality of Greenland after Kujalleq. Politics Qeqqata's municipal council consists of 15 members, elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ane Hansen (politician)
Ane Hansen (born 1961) is a Greenlandic politician. A member of the Inuit Ataqatigiit, she was Minister for Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture 2009–13. She has been the mayor of Qeqertalik Municipality Qeqertalik (, da, Den Ene med Øerne, lit=The One with Islands) is a municipality of Greenland created in 2018 from four southern regions of the former Qaasuitsup Municipality. Geography Qeqertalik Municipality is flanked in the south by the ... since the position was established on 1 January 2018. References Living people Government ministers of Greenland Greenlandic Inuit people Inuit Ataqatigiit politicians Greenlandic socialists 21st-century Greenlandic politicians 21st-century Danish women politicians Women government ministers of Greenland 1961 births {{Greenland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qeqertalik Municipality
Qeqertalik (, da, Den Ene med Øerne, lit=The One with Islands) is a municipality of Greenland created in 2018 from four southern regions of the former Qaasuitsup Municipality. Geography Qeqertalik Municipality is flanked in the south by the Qeqqata municipality and in the northeast by Avannaata. Over the ice cap, it is bordered in the east by the Sermersooq municipality, however this border runs north–south ( 45° West meridian) through the center of the Greenland ice sheet ( kl, Sermersuaq), and as such is free of traffic. Communities of Qeqertalik encircle Disko Bay, an inlet of the larger Baffin Bay, while the northeastern shores and Nuussuaq Peninsula belong to the neighboring municipality of Avannaata. Politics Qeqertalik's municipal council consists of 15 members, elected every four years. "Kommunalbestyrelse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palle Jeremiassen
Palle may refer to * Palle (given name) * Palle (surname) Palle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Palle (1916 - 2007), French writer * Mogens Palle (1934 – 2022), Danish professional boxing promoter and manager * Sébastien Palle (born 1961), French writer See also * ... See also * Palli (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avannaata Municipality
Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants. Geography In the south, Avannaata is flanked by the Qeqertalik municipality. In the southeast, it is bordered by the Sermersooq municipality, however this border runs north–south ( 45° West meridian) through the center of the Greenland ice sheet ( kl, Sermersuaq), and as such is free of traffic. In the east and northeast it is bordered by the Northeast Greenland National Park. At the southern end of the municipal coastline are the waters of Disko Bay, although some Disko Bay communities belong to the municipality of Qeqertalik. This bay is an inlet of the larger Baffin Bay, which to the north edges into the island of Greenland in the form of Melville Bay. The coastline of northeastern Baffin Bay is dotted with islands of the Upernavik Archipe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stine Egede
Stine Egede Nørbæk (born 1964) is a Greenlandic politician ( Inuit Ataqatigiit) and police officer. Early life and career Stine Egede was born in Narsaq but grew up in Igaliku. From 1985 to 1988, she worked as an office assistant. She then worked as a police officer until 2011. She ran Qaqortoq Prison from 2011 to 2012 before returning to work as a police officer. She is the chairwoman of the board of directors of the Akilliit home for neglected children. Political career Egede ran for a seat in the Inatsisartut the first time in the 2013 parliamentary elections, but only came second with 88 votes. She had better luck in the local elections that same year, where she received 235 votes for her party in the municipality of Kujalleq and thus entered the local council. She was able to repeat this result in 2017, when she achieved the second most of all candidates with 313 votes. In the 2018 parliamentary elections, she received 99 votes and finished in first place in the Inats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
