Aleqa Hammond is nominated as chairman of Siumut

Siumut’s local branch in Sisimiut points to the former and controversial chairman, Aleqa Hammond, as the new chairman candidate for the party.

Siumut will hold an extraordinary national meeting in Nuuk on June 28. The main point of the meeting will be the election of a new chairman.

From Sisimiut, the former chairman of the party, Aleqa Hammond – who has often been controversial – has now been proposed as the new leader. This is what the chairman of the local branch informed KNR.

– Siumut Sisimiut calls on Aleqa Hammond to run as a candidate for chairman at the extraordinary national meeting because we see her as a strong person who clearly stands by Siumut’s goals and can work to make the party the largest in the country again, writes Inuuteq Bech, chairman of Siumut Sisimiut.

According to the local branch, Aleqa Hammond has the ability to unite the party, and they believe she is the most suitable to lead the country.

The chairman of Siumut Sisimiut believes that Aleqa Hammond can well serve as chairman, even though she is neither a member of Naalakkersuisut nor Inatsisartut, because she has the necessary time and support.

– That is why we are working together with many Siumut members in the rest of the country and have great hope that the work of getting Aleqa Hammond nominated as a candidate for chairman will be well received both centrally and in the local branches, writes Inuuteq Bech.

Has previously been chairman of the party

Aleqa Hammond has previously been chairman of Siumut.

After Siumut had been the leading political party in the country for 30 years, the party was overtaken in 2009 by IA, which took the place of the largest party, and then-chairman Hans Enoksen resigned. Aleqa Hammond took over the leadership of the party, which had now become the leading opposition party in Inatsisartut.

In the 2013 election, Siumut regained its position as the largest party, and under Aleqa Hammond’s leadership, Siumut formed a coalition with Atassut and Partii Inuit.

But Aleqa Hammond’s time as Prime Minister was short.

It turned out that she had used public funds for private purposes, which was revealed by the audit committee. Aleqa Hammond had used 204,000 kroner from the Self-Government’s funds. The auditors had repeatedly demanded repayment, and in 2014 Aleqa Hammond repaid the money to the national treasury.

She subsequently resigned as head of government.

And in 2014 she resigned as chairwoman of Siumut.