Augusta Salling vid Nordiska Radets session i Oslo

Augusta Salling (born 1954) is a former finance minister of

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

. She began as a teacher. Her political roles before finance minister included being a member of a Parliament and mayor of

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from 1993 to 1997. In 2003 she refused to step down over a budgeting error she stated was not her fault. This led to the collapse of the governing coalition.BBC
/ref> She is a member of Feeling of Community.

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