Jens Napãtôᴋ'

Jens Napãtôᴋ', also known as Jens Napaattooq,[1] is a Greenlandic politician. He is a member of the Inatsisartut, the parliament of Greenland, representing the Naleraq party. He was elected in 2021, made a chairman of two committees, and took a leave of absence after a video surfaced allegedly showing him threatening to attack someone in his home. He underwent treatment for alcohol, and returned to the Inatsisartut by September 2021. He was removed as chairman from his committees in April 2022. In June 2022, he was elected deputy leader of Naleraq.

Political career

In 2005, Napãtôᴋ' resigned from the government after improperly using government funds to buy personal products, including beer, two packs of cigarettes, and services at a strip club.[2] He was a member of the national board for housing, and after four years of appeals, his sentence—having to serve four months in jail and pay a fine of over 100,000 Danish kroner—was upheld, albeit with the fine somewhat reduced.[3]

He was elected to the Inatsisartut in the 2021 election.[4] He was elected with the Naleraq party, and was simultaneously elected to the municipal council of Avannaata.[5]

In April 2021, he applied for sick leave from the Inatsisartut due to family problems, shortly after he was appointed chairman of the committee on finance and tax.[6] He was allegedly shown in a video threatening to attack someone at his home,[5] and the Siumut party reported him to the police.[7] He was then stripped of his chairmanship for the committee on finance and tax, as well as his chairmanship of the committee on fisheries.[8] His party's chairman wished him well, saying that it was taboo to ask for help when needed.[9] The next month, he stated that he had started treatment for alcohol, and he wished to return to the Inatsisartut once it was completed.[5]

He returned by September, and threatened to vote against his party's budget proposal, unless a tax on halibut were removed.[10] He was again made chairman of both committees on his return,[11] although a change in the coalition government in April 2022 resulted in him being replaced by Hans Aronsen (Inuit Ataqatigiit, for fisheries) and Anders Olsen (Siumut, for law).[12] He stated that the coalition—between Inuit Ataqatigiit and Naleraq—had been a dysfunctional partnership; that Inuit Ataqatigiit often refused to take responsibility; and that there was no notice that their coalition was ending and would be replaced by an Inuit Ataqatigiit–Siumut partnership.[13] In June, Hans Enoksen resigned as the leader of Naleraq, and Napãtôᴋ' and Pele Broberg were nominated to succeed him.[14] Napãtôᴋ' declined to serve as the party's leader for personal reasons, but he was elected as deputy leader without opposition.[14]

References

Citations
  1. Andersen 2021.
  2. Schmidtová 2005.
  3. Thorin 2009.
  4. Schultz-Nielsen 2021.
  5. Nathansen 2021.
  6. Hyldal, Kristensen & Brøns 2021.
  7. Nathansen & Hyldal 2021.
  8. Hyldal 2021.
  9. Hyldal 2021a.
  10. Wille 2021.
  11. Thorin 2021.
  12. Veirum 2022b.
  13. Veirum 2022a.
  14. Kristensen & Veirum 2022.

Bibliography
  • Andersen, Nina-Vivi Møller (25 May 2021). "Jens Napaattooq: Klar til at vende tilbage til politik" [Jens Napaattooq: Ready to return to politics]. Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Hyldal, Christine (5 May 2021). "Jens Napãtôk er fjernet som udvalgsformand" [Jens Napãtôk has been removed as committee chairman]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Hyldal, Christine (27 April 2021a). "Hans Enoksen: Vi ønsker Jens Napaattooqs familie det bedste" [Hans Enoksen: We wish Jens Napaattooq's family the best]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Hyldal, Christine; Kristensen, Marie Kûitse; Brøns, Malik (27 April 2021). "Jens Napãtôk søger om sygeorlov fra Inatsisartut" [Jens Napãtôk is applying for sick leave from Inatsisartut]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Kristensen, Kassaaluk; Veirum, Thomas (25 June 2022). "Naleraq har fået ny formand" [Naleraq has a new chairman]. Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  • Nathansen, Bibi (26 May 2021). "Jens Napãtôᴋ' vil tilbage på arbejde efter alkoholbehandling" [Jens Napãtôᴋ' wants to return to work after alcohol treatment]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Nathansen, Bibi; Hyldal, Christine (28 April 2021). "Siumut har meldt Jens Napaattooq til politiet" [Siumut has reported Jens Napaattooq to the police]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Schmidtová, Dana (16 September 2005). "Grónští ministři utráceli státní peníze" [Greenland ministers spent state money]. BBC Czech (in Czech). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Schultz-Nielsen, Jørgen (7 April 2021). "10 politikere fik et dobbeltmandat" [10 politicians were given a double mandate]. Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Thorin, Jens (4 May 2009). "Jens Napãtôk' 4 måneder i anstalt" [Jens Napãtôk' 4 months in prison]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Thorin, Jens (29 September 2021). "Jens Napãtôk får fiskeri og finansposter tilbage i Inatsisartut" [Jens Napãtôk gets fishing and financial items back in Inatsisartut]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  • Veirum, Thomas Munk (5 April 2022a). "Overrasket Napaattooq: Vi blev smidt ud" [Surprised Napaattooq: We were thrown out]. Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  • Veirum, Thomas Munk (6 April 2022b). "Udvalg på plads: Sådan gik kabalen op" [Selection in place: How the solitaire went up]. Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  • Wille, Andreas (16 September 2021). "Naleraq bider ikke på koalitionens finanslovsforslag: Hellefiskeafgiften skal fjernes" [Naleraq does not bite on the coalition's budget bill: The halibut tax must be removed]. KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
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