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Greenland calls for early elections next month
http://hosted2.ap.org/NCFAY/9672d9fdd81a405387d1c9ef08e47277/Article_2014-10-02-EU--Greenland-Politics/id-09d1ba02a7f7498b9f8c2b8c5b17900bGreenland calls for early elections next month
Oct. 2, 2014 7:51 AM ET
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Greenland has called for early elections next month after four government members quit and the prime minister went on leave amid a scandal involving the use of public funds.
Parliament in the semi-autonomous territory decided late Wednesday elections will be held November 28, a year-and-a-half earlier than planned.
Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond decided to take a leave of absence until an investigation is completed into her alleged private spending of public funds worth more than 106,000 kroner ($84,322) on hotels and flights.
The political crisis casts doubt on Hammond's dream of seeing the mostly ice-covered Arctic island achieving full financial independence from Denmark if it could harvest underground mineral wealth. She had a ban removed on mining radioactive minerals, a byproduct of extracting rare earth metals, among others.