Hans Enoksen is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009.
Career
After his election he began an alliance with left wing party Inuit Ataqatigiit. The two parties began discussing how to change the agreement with Denmark and the United States. about how much Greenland should receive in compensation for the United States. airbase situated outside the town of Thule, in the north of the country. In the 2009 election, the Iowa beat him with 43% of the vote compared to Enoksen"s Suimut party"s 26%.
Enoksen got 2 425 personal votes.
Politics
He became Minister for Fisheries, Hunting and Settlements and chairman of the political party Siumut in 2001. After the 2009 defeat, Hans Enoksen retired as leader of Siumut. At the elections 2013 he was re-elected, but in January 2014 he was so unsatisfied with Siumuts politics, that he left the party and established a new political party, Partii Naleraq.
Membership
A Greenlandic monoglot, he has been a member of the Parliament of Greenland since 1995.