NunaGreen should repay 400 million kroner to the stingy national treasury. This is the conclusion of the Naleraq chairman after seeing the national treasury’s accounts for 2024. He is now criticizing the party that helped approve the investment.
2024 was a challenging year for the treasury’s financial results.
Last year ended with a deficit of 257 million kroner. Inuit Ataqatigiit and Siumut were, as coalition parties, responsible for the economy during that period.
According to Pele Broberg, the deficit is an expression of poor economic management.
– The deficit in 2024 came as no surprise to us.
– The lack of ability and willingness to manage the economy has become increasingly clear, says Pele Broberg.
Broberg: Pay back 400 million kroner
The operating result was otherwise more positive last year with a profit of 150 million kroner. However, the overall result ended in a deficit due to investments in NunaGreen for 400 million kroner and Kalaallit Airports for 100 million kroner.
Pele Broberg believes that the investment of 400 million kroner in NunaGreen should not have taken place. He now wants the company to be closed and the money to be repaid.
– Get the funds allocated to NunaGreen back, close NunaGreen, and postpone this work to a later date, says Pele Broberg.
Now criticizing decisions that Naleraq himself has supported
NunaGreen will receive a total of 400 million kroner spread over four budget years, which Inatsisartut has adopted in the Finance Act for 2024. Naleraq is among the parties that have voted for the proposal. Pele Broberg is thus criticizing the party of which he is the chairman, and which has helped vote for the grant.
He now presents his reasons for that criticism.
Pele Broberg explains that Naleraq’s political objectives were incorporated into the Finance Act for 2024. Therefore, the party’s members chose to vote in favor, even though they do not share full support for the entire content of the law.
– If we are to achieve something we want and have some influence, we must also take into account the wishes of others. NunaGreen is part of that whole, says Pele Broberg.
On Tuesday, KNR attempted to get an interview with Naalakkersuisoq’s Finance Minister, Múte Bourup Egede, about the treasury’s finances in 2024. However, this has not yet been successful.