Jens Napãtôᴋ'

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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, 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.

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.[11]

References[]

Citations[]

  1. ^ Andersen 2021.
  2. ^ Schmidtová 2005.
  3. ^ Thorin 2009.
  4. ^ Schultz-Nielsen 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Nathansen 2021.
  6. ^ Hyldal, Kristensen & Brøns 2021.
  7. ^ Nathansen & Hyldal 2021.
  8. ^ Hyldal 2021.
  9. ^ Hyldal 2021a.
  10. ^ Wille 2021.
  11. ^ Thorin 2021.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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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