Greenland’s pro-business opposition party won the Arctic island’s closely-watched parliamentary election on Tuesday, following a race dominated both by US President Donald Trump’s annexation threat and growing calls from residents for independence from Denmark.

Greenland's opposition center-right Demokraatit party won parliamentary elections on Tuesday, amid heightened attention on the Danish region as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to annex the island.

Donald Trump repeated on Thursday that the United States will annex Greenland, while cheering the Arctic island’s election result. “I think it will happen,” said the U.S. president, when asked about his vision for the potential annexation of Greenland during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.