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Nunatta Qitornai

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Separatist political party in Greenland

Descendants of Our Land Nunatta Qitornai

Chairman	Vittus Qujaukitsoq
Founded	September 2017 (2017-09)
Dissolved	April 2021 (2021-04) (de facto)
Split from	Siumut
Merged into	Naleraq
Ideology	Greenlandic independence^[1] Decentralization^[2]^[3] Social democracy Populism
Political position	Centre-left
Colors	Purple
Inatsisartut	0 / 31
Folketing (Greenland seats)	0 / 2
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Nunatta Qitornai (Danish:Vort lands efterkommere, English:Descendants of Our Land) was aseparatist political party^[1] inGreenland advocatingindependence. It was founded in September 2017 by former Minister of Business, Labour, Trade and Foreign AffairsVittus Qujaukitsoq, who had previously been inSiumut^[4] and who was subsequently elected in the2018 parliamentary election. In the2021 election, the party lost its seat and ceased its activities. In2025, the leader of Qujaukitsoq participated as theNaleraq member.

Name

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Nunavta Qitornai (pre-1973 spelling) was the name of apatriotic and educationalyouth organisation founded in 1941 by the politician and poetAugo Lynge, who was a prominent advocate for close cooperation between Greenland and Denmark and the incorporation of Greenland into the Danish state; his grandchild has criticized the use of the name for a separatist party as disrespectful to the memory of Augo Lynge.^[5]

History

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In April 2017, Vittus Qujaukitsoq was relieved from the Foreign Affairs portfolio in the Greenlandic government byPremier Kim Kielsen. This was due to harsh criticism of the Danish handling and filed formal complaint to United Nations with demands of the environmental clean-up of former U.S. military installations across Greenland. He stepped down as Minister of Industry, Trade, Labour and Energy in May 2017. He subsequently challenged Kielsen for the chairmanship at Siumut's party conference in July 2017, and left the party after he lost the vote 19–48.^[6]

Vittus Qujaukitsoq advocates a speedy transition toGreenlandic independence, whereas Kim Kielsen and the majority in Siumut are in favour of a gradualist approach.

The party stood in the2018 parliamentary election, with former Prime MinisterAleqa Hammond as one of its candidates; however, only chairman Vittus Qujaukitsoq was elected.

In the2021 election, the party lost its only seat.

Prior to the2025 Greenlandic general election, Nunatta Qitornai leaderVittus Qujaukitsoq has joined theNaleraq party, declaring that Nunatta Qitornai is a thing of the past after the 2021 election failure and does not expect the party to be revived.^[7]

Policies

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Apart from the speedy establishment of a Greenlandic state, the party advocated decentralization of the administration and the establishment of 17 municipalities based on the current population distribution.^[2]