Múte Bourup Egede | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Egede in 2024 | |
| 7thPrime Minister of Greenland | |
| In office 23 April 2021 – 7 April 2025 | |
| Monarchs | Margrethe II Frederik X |
| Preceded by | Kim Kielsen |
| Succeeded by | Jens-Frederik Nielsen |
| Minister of Finance and Taxation | |
| Assumed office 7 April 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Jens-Frederik Nielsen |
| Preceded by | Naaja Nathanielsen |
| Chairman ofInuit Ataqatigiit | |
| Assumed office 1 December 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Sara Olsvig |
| Minister of Communes, Hamlets, Outer Districts, Infrastructure and Housing (acting) | |
| In office 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Martha Lund Olsen |
| Minister for Raw Material and the Labour Market | |
| In office 2016–2018 | |
| Preceded by | Mimi Karlsen |
| Member of theInatsisartut | |
| Assumed office May 2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1987-03-11)11 March 1987 (age 38) Nuuk, Greenland |
| Political party | Inuit Ataqatigiit |
| Spouse | Sara Biilmann Egede |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Greenland (dropped out) |
Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede (Greenlandic:[mut͡sːiinɜquˈnaːlukˈpou̯ʁɔpˈeːəðə]; born 11 March 1987) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the 7thPrime Minister of Greenland from 2021 to 2025. He has also served as Chairman of theInuit Ataqatigiit since December 2018, and a Member of theInatsisartut since May 2015.
Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede was born inNuuk on 11 March 1987.[1] He grew up inNarsaq and was educated inQaqortoq before studying cultural and social history at theUniversity of Greenland in 2007. He was the vice chairman of the Greenlandic Academic Student Society from 2011 to 2012.[1] He did not finish his studies and dropped out in 2013 to take over the familyfodder company started by his father.[2][3][4]
In 2007, Egede was a member of the Greenlandic youth parliament, theInuusuttut Inatsisartui.[3] From 2013 till 2015 he was the chairman of theInuusuttut Ataqatigiit, the youth wing ofInuit Ataqatigiit.[1][3]
At the2015 Danish general election, Egede was a candidate for theFolketing for Inuit Ataqatigiit.[5] He received 2,131 votes, not enough for a seat in parliament.[6]
Between 2016 and 2018, Egede served as Minister for Raw Material and the Labour Market, where he simultaneously – for three months in 2017 – was acting Minister of Communes, Hamlets, Outer Districts, Infrastructure and Housing.[3]
On 1 December 2018 he was elected chair ofInuit Ataqatigiit, succeedingSara Olsvig.[3] He led the party to the2021 Greenlandic general elections, where it gained 36.6% of the vote, becoming the largest party in parliament.[2] With 3,380 personal votes, Egede was the candidate with the most personal votes in the elections, receiving upwards of 1,500 more than the sittingprime minister,Kim Kielsen of theSiumut party.[7]
On 16 April it was announced thatIA had formed a coalition withNaleraq with a 10 memberNaalakkersuisut.Atassut, which holds two seats, announced that while it would not enter a pro-independence coalition they would provide support to the coalition.[8]
Egede was confirmed asPrime Minister of Greenland by theInatsisartut on 23 April 2021,[9] becoming the country's youngest Prime Minister in history.[10] He formeda new government in April 2022.[11]
In response to the ongoing controversy over thespiral case, Egede accused Denmark of committinggenocide in Greenland.[12]
During the2025 Greenlandic general election, Egede received 3,276 personal votes, losing to Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who received 4,850.[13]
Egede is the chairman ofInuit Ataqatigiit, ademocratic socialist political party.[14] He is an advocate forGreenlandic independence.[3]
Egede is married to Sara Biilmann Egede, with whom he has one child.[1] He also has two children from a prior relationship.[1]
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