Greenland votes Tuesday in legislative elections that could yield a timeline for independence. Donald Trump, determined to get his hands on the vast Arctic island \”one way or the other\”, tried until the last minute to influence the election. Greenland’s inhabitants — almost 90 percent of whom are Inuits — say they are tired of being treated like second-class citizens by their former colonial power. The election result will define the balance of power between those who want to independence quickly and those who prefer to wait until the island is financially independent, such as the nationalist Naleraq party. The island, covered 80 percent by ice, depends on its fisheries sector, which accounts for almost all of its exports, and annual Danish subsidies of more than $565 million, equivalent to a fifth of its GDP. But the mining sector is still in its embryonic stages, hampered by high costs due to Greenland’s harsh climate and lack of infrastructure. The most recent polling on the issue, published in January, shows 85 percent of Greenlanders are opposed to Trump’s idea.