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Jens Frederik Nielsen (born 22 June 1991) is a Greenlandic politician and badminton player. He is the current leader of the Demokraatit party, and formerly served as the Minister of Labour and Mineral Resources during the Kielsen VII Cabinet.^[1]

During the 2025 Greenlandic general election, Nielsen received 3,939 personal votes. Nielsen received more votes than incumbent Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede, who received 2,679.^[2]

Nielsen is opposed to the proposed sale of Greenland to the United States.^[3]

The Democrats (Greenlandic: Demokraatit [temokʁaːt͡sit]; Danish: Demokraterne, D) is a social liberal political party in Greenland.

The party used to be sceptical of Greenlandic independence and even further self-governance.^[8] Now it supports independence as the end goal of a gradual process that starts with increased self-determination.^[9] Two of the major priorities in its programme are improving educational standards and the housing situation.^[2]

In terms of country of birth, the population is estimated to be of 89.7% Greenlandic multiethnic European-Inuit origin, 7.8% Danish, 1.1% other Nordic and 1.4% other. The multi-ethnic population of European-Inuit represent people of Danish, Norwegian and to a lesser degree of Faroese, Icelandic, Dutch (whalers), German^[5] and American descent.

A 2015 wide genetic study of Greenlanders found modern-day Inuit in Greenland are direct descendants of the first Inuit pioneers of the Thule culture who arrived in the 13th century, with approximately 25% admixture of the European colonisers from the 16th century. Despite previous speculations, no evidence of Viking settlers predecessors has been found.^[194]