Hans Enoksen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Hans Enoksen

Prime Minister of Greenland

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1956

Place of Birth: Itilleq, Qeqqata

Profession: politician

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Hans Enoksen

  • Hans Enoksen (born 7 August 1956 in Itilleq, Greenland) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009. A Greenlandic monoglot, he has been a member of the Parliament of Greenland since 1995.
  • He became Minister for Fisheries, Hunting and Settlements and chairman of the political party Siumut in 2001. He was elected prime minister on 14 December 2002, his party winning a mere 28%, a 7% drop from in the previous election in 1999, but still enough to win. After his election he began an alliance with left wing party Inuit Ataqatigiit.
  • The two parties began discussing how to change the agreement with Denmark and the U.S.
  • about how much Greenland should receive in compensation for the U.S.
  • airbase situated outside the town of Thule, in the north of the country.
  • In the 2009 election, the IA beat him with 43% of the vote compared to Enoksen's party's 26%. After the 2009 defeat, Hans Enoksen retired as leader of Siumut.At the elections 2013 he was re-elected, but in January 2014 he was so unsatisfied with Siumut's politics that he left the party 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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