Pro-mining party doubles support in Greenland vote, coalition talks near

Siumut candidate, Karl Kristian Kruse, and leader of Siumut Party, Kim Kielsen, are seen outside Godthaabshallen in Nuuk, Greenland April 24, 2018. Ritzau Scanpix/Christian Klindt Soelbeck/via REUTERS

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A pro-business party that promised to champion Greenland's nascent mining industry almost doubled its support in elections, results showed on Wednesday, raising the prospect of a shift in the coalition government.

The centrist Demokraterne party took nearly 20 percent of the vote and became the third biggest group after it won over supporters from the two main parties in the last coalition, up from 11.8 percent four years earlier.