The Centre Party (, ) was a political party in

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founded by the former

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Bjarne Kreutzmann in 1990. The party was an attempt to find a middle ground between the left wing separatism of

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(with public ownership of most of the

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and the dominant

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) and the liberal unionism of Atassut. According to the party, Greenland should privatize, deregulate and lower taxes in order to obtain the economic basis for independence by creating a strong

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, enabling the country to become more self-reliant and gradually eliminate the Danish state grant, which financed most of the

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History

The party won two seats in the 1991 elections, retaining both in the 1995 elections.Greenland/DK
Parties and Elections However, it did not contest any further national elections.

References

{{Greenlandic political parties Defunct political parties in Greenland Centrist parties in Denmark 1990 establishments in Greenland Political parties established in 1990