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Tjóðveldi
Republic ( fo, Tjóðveldi), formerly known as the Republican Party ( fo, Tjóðveldisflokkurin) is a left-wing political party on the Faroe Islands committed to Faroese independence. History The party was founded in 1948 as a reaction to the islands failing to gain independence despite the outcome of the 1946 independence referendum, after which independence was subsequently declared but annulled by the Danish King. In 1998, Høgni Hoydal succeeded Heini O. Heinesen as party leader. During the 20 January 2004 legislative elections, the party won 21.7% of the popular vote and 8 out of 33 seats. However, after the passing of an amendment adding the term "sexual orientation" to paragraph 266b of the Anti-Discrimination Act, MP Karsten Hansen announced that he was leaving the party owing to a difference in opinion. He later joined the Centre Party. At the elections on 19 January 2008, the party won 23.3% of the vote and 8 out of 33 seats. On 14 September 2007, the party c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Høgni Hoydal
Høgni Karsten Hoydal (born 28 March 1966), commonly called Høgni Hoydal, is a Faroese politician, who served as Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister from 2015 to 2019. He has been the party leader of Tjóðveldi since 1998. Before taking office Høgni Hoydal was a reporter of the Faroese national television station, Kringvarp Føroya, for some years prior to his election to the Faroese parliament in 1998. Political career Høgni Hoydal brought the Republican Party back up from four MPs to eight in the 1998 elections and into government, due to popular opinion at the time. Høgni Hoydal became Minister of Justice and deputy Prime Minister. The coalition stayed in power after the parliamentary elections in 2002 and brought one more political party into the coalition and government. This coalition, however, broke down on 5 December 2003 and new elections held. After these elections another coalition was formed leaving the Republican Party in opposition. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurð Joensen
Jóhan Hendrik Sigurð Joensen (April 27, 1911 – October 1, 1993) was a Faroe Islanders, Faroese lawyer, author, and politician for the Faroese Republic (Faroe Islands), Republican Party ( fo, Tjóðveldisflokkurin). Joensen was born in Gjógv.Joensen, Sofus et al. 1986. ''Føroyskar bókmentir í úrvali'', vol. 4. Tórshavn: Føroya Skulabokagrunnur, p. 358. He married Sigrið av Skarði Joensen, Sigrið av Skarði in 1938. Several of their children and grandchildren became prominent cultural figures in Faroese society, including the educator Turið Sigurðardóttir, the poet and actress Sigri Mitra Gaïni, and the social anthropologist Firouz Gaïni. Their granddaughter Sólrun Løkke Rasmussen is married to Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. From 1941 to 1945, Joensen was the editor of the Faroese-language newspaper ''Búgvin'' (Ready). In 1948, Joensen was one of the founders of the Faroese Republican Party ( fo, Tjóðveldisflokkurin) together with Erlendur Patur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Danish General Election
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing; 175 in Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place ten days after the European Parliament elections. The elections resulted in a victory for the "red bloc", comprising parties that supported the Social Democrats' leader Mette Frederiksen as candidate for Prime Minister. The "red bloc", consisting of the Social Democrats, the Social Liberals, Socialist People's Party, the Red–Green Alliance, the Faroese Social Democratic Party and the Greenlandic Siumut, won 93 of the 179 seats, securing a parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, the incumbent governing coalition, consisting of Venstre, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People's Party whilst receiving parliamentary support from the Danish People's Party and Nunatta Qitornai, was reduced to 76 seats (including the Venstre-affiliated Union Party in the Faroe Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroese Independence Movement
The Faroese independence movement ( fo, Føroyska Tjóðskaparrørslan), or the Faroese national movement (), is a political movement which seeks the establishment of the Faroe Islands as a sovereign state outside Denmark. Reasons for complete autonomy include the linguistic and cultural divide between Denmark and the Faroe Islands as well as their lack of proximity to one another; the Faroe Islands are about 990 km (approximately 620 miles) from Danish shores. History of sovereignty Pre-Denmark It is known that Norsemen settled the islands , bringing the Old Norse language that evolved into the modern Faroese language. These settlers are not thought to have come directly from Scandinavia, but rather from Norse communities surrounding the Irish Sea, Northern Isles and Western Isles of Scotland, including the Shetland and Orkney islands, and Norse-Gaels. A traditional name for the islands in the Irish language, , means 'the Skeggjar' and possibly refers to the ('island-be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Political Parties On The Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands have a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. There are two major ideological cleavages in Faroese politics. In addition to the left-right spectrum, parties are also divided between those that want to maintain the Faroes' place within the Danish Realm ('unionists') and those that want Faroese independence ('separatists'). The current government is formed by a coalition between the two major centre-right parties, the Union Party and the People's Party, and the small, centrist Centre Party and Self-Government Party. Political parties with elected representation at a national level There are currently seven parties represented in the Løgting. The two largest parties – each with eight seats – represent centre-right unionism and centre-right separatism, while the next two – each with six seats – represent centre-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erlendur Patursson
Erlendur Patursson (20 August 1913 – 16 June 1986) was a Faroese politician and writer. Erlendur was born in 1913 in Kirkjubøur. He was the son of the politician Jóannes Patursson. He became cand.pol. in 1940 and was one of the founders of '' Tjóðveldisflokkurin'', the Faroese Republican Party, in 1948.Jinathan Wylie, "Erlendur Patursson, Politician and Journalist," in Jonathan Wylie and David Margolin, ''The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture'', Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1981, , pp. 139–41, p. 139. The Republicans are a left-wing Faroese political party in favor of national independence from Denmark. He was a member of the Løgting from 1958 to 1966 and again in 1970–86. From 1963 to 1967 he was minister of fishery and finance, and from 1973 to 1977 a member of the Folketing. Patursson came up with the idea for the Nordic House in the Faroe Islands. In the Nordic council he pushed for Greenlandic independence as well as independen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordic Green Left Alliance
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway ( away) and Iceland ( away). The islands form part of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with mainland Denmark and Greenland. The islands have a total area of about with a population of 54,000 as of June 2022. The terrain is rugged, and the subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc) is windy, wet, cloudy, and cool. Temperatures for such a northerly climate are moderated by the Gulf Stream, averaging above freezing throughout the year, and hovering around in summer and 5 °C (41 °F) in winter. The northerly latitude also results in perpetual civil twilight during summer nights and very short winter days. Between 1035 and 1814, the Faroe Islands were part of the Kingdom of Norway, which was in a personal union with Denmark from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Danish Parliamentary Election
General elections were held in Denmark on 15 September 2011 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. Of those 179, 175 members were elected in Denmark, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The incumbent centre-right coalition led by Venstre lost power to a centre-left coalition led by the Social Democrats making Helle Thorning-Schmidt the country's first female Prime Minister. The Social Liberal Party and the Socialist People's Party became part of the three-party government. The new parliament convened on 4 October, the first Tuesday of the month. Background Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who had been re-elected Prime Minister following the 2007 parliamentary election, resigned on 5 April 2009 to become the Secretary General of NATO in August. Polls indicated a preference for early elections over simply having Finance Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen take over as PM; the Social Democrats' Helle Thorning-Schmidt was also suggested as the preferred candidate for PM. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Danish Parliamentary Election
General elections were held in Denmark on 13 November 2007. The elections allowed prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of Venstre and the Conservative People's Party with parliamentary support from the Danish People's Party. They were the first elections held using the current constituencies. Contesting parties Coalitions According to the Constitution of Denmark, Denmark is governed according to the principle of negative parliamentarism, meaning that while a government doesn't need the majority of seats in parliament, it must never have a majority of seats against it in a vote of no confidence. Before the ongoing elections, this was relevant since the government, consisting of the Conservative People's Party and the Liberals did not have a majority of seats, but depended on the support of the Danish People's Party. Early opinion polls showed that neither a right-wing or a left-wing government could gather enou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karsten Hansen
Karsten Hansen is a Faroese politician who has served in various ministerial positions. Political career Hansen first served as Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ... from 15 May 1998 until 6 June 2002 as a member of Republic. He was reappointed and served in the position until 3 February 2004. On 4 February 2008, he was again appointed Minister of Finance. He served in the position until 26 September 2008. In November 2011, as a member of the Centre Party, he was appointed Minister of Health Affairs. References Living people Finance Ministers of the Faroe Islands Health ministers of the Faroe Islands Year of birth missing (living people) {{Faroes-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections In The Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands elects on the national level a legislature. The Faroese Parliament (''Løgtingið in Faroese'') has 33 members of parliament, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation. The Faroe Islands have a multi-party system (disputing on independence and unionism as well as left and right), with numerous parties in which a single party normally does not have a chance of gaining power alone, and therefore the parties must work together in order to form a coalition government. Latest elections Past elections and referendums * JF – Social-Democrats (''Equality Party'') * SF – Union Party (''have been in coalition with the Labour Front and the Self-Government Party at some elections'') * TF – Republican Party * FF – People's Party * SSF – Self-Government Party * MF – Centre Party * KFF – Christian People's Party * VF – Workers' Movement * F – Progress 1984 JF – 23.4%, 8 MPs FF – 21.6%, 7 MPs SF – 21.2%, 7 MPs TF – 19.5% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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