Imploding reindeer emoji

Last week the Greenlandic coalition government collapsed – again. This time, the problem was airports. For many years, Greenland has been keen on building infrastructure to boost their vulnerable, fishing-based economy. One strand of their infrastructure strategy is to build and expand airports to bring in new airlines and larger aircraft. Finally, a major investor has been found. But there’s a problem: the investor is the Danish Government. And there are questions over their motivations regarding control over the project, specifically over who else might be allowed to invest. Although the Danish Government has said they would not veto Chinese companies who might apply to build the airports, at least one Danish academic expert on Danish-Greenlandic politics thinks this is exactly why Denmark is investing. And indeed, the signed agreement gives the Danes veto rights. While the money was warmly welcomed by Premier Kim Kielsen, it was met with howls of condemnation from a key minority coalition partner, Parti Naleraq. The gist of Parti Naleraq’s complaint was, in more-or-less these words, ‘we don’t want your Danish money,’ a sentiment that is not shared by most Greenlanders. The result was the sudden and complete melt-down of Greenlandic politics – again.

In the last four years there have been four major political crises in Greenland. First, there was an election because the Premier lost the support of her party after a public finances scandal. Next, the subsequent coalition government collapsed and a new coalition formed. Then, there was an early election, arguably to avert an internal revolt. And now, only five months since the last election, the coalition government has collapsed, again. Now we are in a state of flux. The coalition is broken, the largest coalition party – Siumut – is in chaos, and the Premier has three bad options: continue with a minority government, call an election, or form a new coalition with one of two other powerful and combative parties who intend to play some serious hard-ball. What was the Premier’s choice? He went reindeer hunting – back in a few days. No, I am not kidding.

I feel like I should end this with some kind of emoji, but I’m not sure what. Is there an imploding reindeer emoji?