Eighty-five (85%) of Greenlanders oppose their island becoming part of the United States, a new opinion poll revealed, following Donald Trump’s renewed call for US control over the semi-autonomous Danish territory, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.
Since his re-election, the US President has reiterated his interest in acquiring the Arctic island, which is under Danish sovereignty but enjoys significant autonomy.
Speaking aboard Air Force One recently, Trump stated, "I think we’re going to have it," claiming that the Arctic island’s 57,000 residents "want to be with us."
However, a new survey conducted by pollster Verian, commissioned by the Danish newspaper Berlingske, found that only 6% of Greenlanders support joining the US, while 9% remain undecided.
"It's the first poll that asked a representative section of Greenland's population and I think this is very important," Kasper Moller Hansen, a political science professor at the University of Copenhagen, told AFP.
"I think this poll shows very clearly that they do not want to be American," he pointed out.
Around 45% of Greenlanders view Trump's interest in their island as a "threat", while 43% view it as an "opportunity" and 13% are undecided, according to the poll.
The poll questioned 497 respondents 18 years and older between January 22 and 26 and had a margin of error of 1.9 to 4.4 percentage points.
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