Government Collapses Amid Row Over Healer
From Times Wire Reports
Greenland’s government collapsed amid political bickering set off by a top official’s use of an Inuit healer to cleanse government offices of evil spirits.
Premier Hans Enoksen, head of the social democratic Siumut party, booted the left-wing Inuit Ataqatigitt party from his coalition Tuesday, leaving the island of 56,000 without a government.
A Siumut official’s hiring of the healer upset Inuit Ataqatigitt and brought tension over other issues to a boiling point.
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