Greenland's ruling party to seek coalition after narrow election win


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  • Saturday, 29 Nov 2014

Kim Kielsen (C) of Siumut arrives at a pooling centre to vote in the elections for Greenland's regional government in Nuuk November 28, 2014. REUTERS/Ulrik Bang/Scanpix

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Greenland's ruling Siumut Party narrowly won a snap election, results showed on Saturday, but its new leader Kim Kielsen will need to build a coalition to form a government to deal with a shrinking economy and reassure foreign investors.

The fall of premier Aleqa Hammond last month in an expenses scandal has muted a nationalist rhetoric that promised independence from Denmark based on wealth from some of the largest mineral deposits on earth.

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