A pro-independence party has reunited with Greenland's biggest party to form a government after a row in part over the use of a faith healer to chase away evil spirits, Danish state radio (DR) said today.
The Inuit Ataqatigiit (Inuit Brotherhood) (IA), which wants to stop Washington using its Greenland radar base as part of a planned missile defence shield, reached a deal with the Siumut party which has been in power since Greenland won partial home rule from Denmark in 1979.
Greenland's parliament will meet tomorrow to formally approve the new rule.
Siumut's former coalition partners, the liberal Atassut party, left the government on Tuesday after eight months in office, the second government collapse in less than a year.
In January, Siumut's coalition with the far-left IA ended after quarrels over alleged corruption and the use of a faith healer to chase away evil spirits.
Siumut has been in office since Copenhagen granted the arctic island's 56,000 people home rule in 1979. It is the 31-seat home-rule parliament's biggest party with 10 deputies, followed by IA with eight and Atassut with seven.
IA's platform going into December 2002 parliament election included a demand for a 2005 referendum on full independence from Denmark. In the new home-rule, the issue of independence will receive high priority, DR reported.