Hans Enoksen (born 7 August 1956) is a Greenlandic politician who has been a member of the

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since 1995, and was

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from 2002 to 2009, the third to hold the position. A

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Greenlandic speaker, he became Minister for Fisheries, Hunting and Settlements and chairman of the political party

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in 2001. Siumut won just 28% in the 2002 general election, down from 35% in the 1999 election. But they again won the biggest number of seats, 10 out of 31, and formed a coalition with left-wing party

Inuit Ataqatigiit Inuit Ataqatigiit (, old spelling: , , , IA) is a democratic socialist, Greenlandic independence, pro-independence political party in Greenland. It is represented in the Folketing (the Danish parliament) by Aaja Chemnitz Larsen. Múte B. Egede ha ...

, with Enoksen becoming

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on 14 December 2002. The two parties began discussing how to change the agreement with

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and the United States about how much Greenland should receive in compensation for the U.S.'s

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in the north of the country. In the 2009 election, Inuit Ataqatigiit beat him with 43% of the vote compared to Enoksen's party's 26%. Enoksen retired as leader of Siumut. He was re-elected in the 2013 election, but in January 2014 he was so dissatisfied with Siumut's politics that he left them and established a new political party, Partii Naleraq. The new party won 11.6% of the valid votes at the elections on 28 November 2014, and got three members elected for the Greenlandic parliament. Enoksen got 2,425 personal votes. He was Speaker of the Inatsisartut in 2018.

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