Augusta Salling
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Augusta Salling is a former finance minister of Greenland
. She began as a teacher. Her political roles before finance minister included being a member of a Parliament and mayor of Qeqertarsuaq
from 1993 to 1997. In 2003 she refused to step down over a budgeting error she stated was not her fault. This led to the collapse of the governing coalition. She is a member of Feeling of Community
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Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
. She began as a teacher. Her political roles before finance minister included being a member of a Parliament and mayor of Qeqertarsuaq
Qeqertarsuaq
Qeqertarsuaq is a port and a town in Qaasuitsup municipality, located on the south coast of Qeqertarsuaq Island, an island on the west coast of Greenland. Founded in 1773, it is home to a campus of the University of Copenhagen...
from 1993 to 1997. In 2003 she refused to step down over a budgeting error she stated was not her fault. This led to the collapse of the governing coalition. She is a member of Feeling of Community
Feeling of Community
Feeling of Community is a centre-right conservative liberal and agrarian political party in Greenland and a partner of the Danish Venstre party. At the last legislative elections, on the fifteenth of November 2005, the party won 19.1% of the popular vote and six out of 31 seats...
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