First-time voters after the election: - They are politically two very different people

- The election shows a bit that we as a people have chosen quite differently.

Fina Winberg and her friend and classmate Malu Kajangmat have put their heads together after their last class at GUX.

In the parliamentary election yesterday, they both voted for the first time, and that is why they are talking about the election result that they woke up to this morning – before going on to work and training.

- It feels great to be able to vote now. It has been fun, says Fina Winberg.

During the election night itself, Fina Winberg followed the election quite a lot at first. Until it was too late and she went to bed. The last votes were not finally counted and approved until after midnight.

- It was Qarsoq Høegh-Dam who was leading quite a bit in the small towns, I noticed. And in some of the big ones, she says.

Malu Kajangmat also followed a little. But not that much, she says. According to the two high school students, the election is not something that has really made a big difference in school the next day.

- Just this morning we talked a little about the fact that the result was not quite what we had expected, says Fina Winberg.

Both she and Malu Kajangmat were a little surprised by the result.

- I had expected that someone from Demokraatit had come in, says Fina Winberg.

- I had that too, says Malu Kajangmat.

But it didn't end up like that. Instead, they and everyone else woke up to the news that IA's Naaja Nathanielsen and Naleraq's Qarsoq Høegh-Dam were going to the Folketing.

One got in, the other didn't

On Tuesday, Fina Winberg ended up voting for Anna Wangenheim from Demokraatit. Among other things, because she seemed like a politician who could act calmly and not shout in a negotiation situation.

Anna Wangenheim ended up getting the second most personal votes, second most after Naleraq politician Qarsoq Høegh-Dam. But when Inuit Ataqatigiit received more party votes than Demokraatit, Naaja Nathanielsen ended up getting elected to the Folketing instead.

- It's a shame, says Fina Winberg.

- Although I can also respect that others have a different opinion than me, I really expected her to get in.

However, she also believes that Naaja Nathanielsen can do well.

It was precisely the IA politician and now former Naalakkersuisoq Naaja Nathanielsen who got Malu Kajangmat's vote.

- She is very committed to equality, and I like that, Malu Kajangmat said on Tuesday, when she had just left the voting booth.

It is good that Naaja Nathanielsen got in, she says.

- You had also heard that many people voted for her. Quite a few people my own age, for example, says Malu Kajangmat.

Collaboration will be difficult, but not impossible

Fina Winberg thinks that it makes good sense that Naleraq ended up doing well in the election. Even though she herself has never considered voting for the party.

- There is just a huge difference between the small towns and the big cities. We can also see that with the candidates who have been elected, she says.

She does not immediately see the fact that it is Naaja Nathanielsen and Qarsoq Høegh-Dam who will now sit for the next four years and collaborate to get Danish politicians to prioritize Greenland higher as a negative thing.

- You could say that we as a country are represented broadly in the Folketinget. Because politically they are two very different people, says Fina Winberg.

- That breadth could be good. I just hope they can work together.

Do you think they can work together?

- We actually have no idea. We've thought about it and talked about it. They don't want the same thing, Fina Winberg replies.

- But on the other hand, they're from the same country. So I think they can work together. But I also think it will be difficult.