Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede (; born 11 March 1987) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the 7th

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from 2021 to 2025. He has also served as Chairman 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 ...

since December 2018, and a Member of the

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since May 2015.

Early life

Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede was born in

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on 11 March 1987. He grew up in Narsaq and was educated in

Qaqortoq Qaqortoq (), also known as Julianehåb, is the capital city of the Kujalleq municipalities of Greenland, municipality in southern Greenland, located near Cape Thorvaldsen. With a population of 3,050 in 2020, it is the most populous town in sout ...

before studying cultural and social history at the University of Greenland in 2007. He was the vice chairman of the Greenlandic Academic Student Society from 2011 to 2012. He did not finish his studies and dropped out in 2013 to take over the family

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company started by his father.

Career

In 2007, Egede was a member of the Greenlandic youth parliament, the ''Inuusuttut Inatsisartui''. From 2013 till 2015 he was the chairman of the ''Inuusuttut Ataqatigiit'', the youth wing of

. At the

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, Egede was a candidate for the

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for Inuit Ataqatigiit. He received 2,131 votes, not enough for a seat in parliament. Between 2016 and 2018, Egede served as Minister for Raw Material and the Labour Market, where he simultaneously – for three months in 2017 – was acting Minister of Communes, Hamlets, Outer Districts, Infrastructure and Housing. On 1 December 2018 he was elected chair of

, succeeding Sara Olsvig. He led the party to the 2021 Greenlandic general elections, where it gained 36.6% of the vote, becoming the largest party in parliament. With 3,380 personal votes, Egede was the candidate with the most personal votes in the elections, receiving upwards of 1,500 more than the sitting

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, Kim Kielsen of the

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party. On 16 April it was announced that IA had formed a coalition with

Naleraq Naleraq (), previously known as Partii Naleraq, is a centrist-populist pro-independence political party in Greenland. The party favors greater cooperation with the United States. While parties such as Inuit Ataqatigiit and Siumut also favor ind ...

with a 10 member Naalakkersuisut.

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, which holds two seats, announced that while it would not enter a pro-independence coalition they would provide support to the coalition. Egede was confirmed as

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by the

on 23 April 2021, becoming the country's youngest Prime Minister in history. He formed a new government in April 2022. In response to the ongoing controversy over the spiral case, Egede accused Denmark of committing

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in Greenland. During the 2025 Greenlandic general election, Egede received 3,276 personal votes, losing to Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who received 4,850.

Political ideology

Egede is the chairman of

, a

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political party. He is an advocate for Greenlandic independence.

Personal life

Egede is married to Sara Biilmann Egede, with whom he has one child. He also has two children from a prior relationship.

References

External links

Profile
on the website of the Nordic Cooperation
@MuteBEgede
on

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