2009, with Sisimiut retaining its status as the administrative center of the
new unit, consisting also of the former Maniitsoq Municipality and the
previously unincorporated area of Kangerlussuaq. The municipal council, seated
in the town hall and headed by Mayor Hermann Berthelsen, consists of 13
members, including the mayor and his deputies, and representatives of the four
primary political parties of Greenland: Siumut, Atassut, Democrats and Inuit
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