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Jens NapãtôK'

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6002814 ↗
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Jens Napãtôᴋ', also known as Jens Napaattooq, is a Greenlandic politician. He is a member of the Inatsisartut, the parliament of Greenland, representing the Naleraq party. He was elected in 2021, made a chairman of two committees, and took a leave of absence after a video surfaced allegedly showing him threatening to attack someone in his home. He underwent treatment for alcohol, and returned to the Inatsisartut by September 2021. He was removed as chairman from his committees in April 2022. In June 2022, he was elected deputy leader of Naleraq.

Political career

In 2005, Napãtôᴋ' resigned from the government after improperly using government funds to buy personal products, including beer, two packs of cigarettes, and services at a strip club. He was a member of the national board for housing, and after four years of appeals, his sentence—having to serve four months in jail and pay a fine of over 100,000 Danish kroner—was upheld, albeit with the fine somewhat reduced.

He was elected to the Inatsisartut in the 2021 election. He was elected with the Naleraq party, and was simultaneously elected to the municipal council of Avannaata.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jens NapãtôK'” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.