Josef Tuusi Motzfeldt mzv.cz, 10.09.2010 (born 24 November 1941) is a Greenlandic politician of
Inuit
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and
German
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descent. He served as Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs in the Greenland government of 2009–2013. During his political career, Motzfeldt had been president of the
West Nordic Council
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, a member of the
Parliament of Greenland
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, leader of the
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 ...
party and the Chairman of Parliament. His daughter is Nukâka Coster-Waldau, a Greenlandic singer and actress.
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Parliament of Greenland
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Politics of Greenland
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