The Christian People's Party, Faroese Progress and Fisheries Party (, KFFFF), generally known as the Christian People's Party (, KF), was a political party in the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...

History

The party was established in 1954 by dissidents from the People's Party, and was originally known as the Progress Party (''Framburðsflokkurin''). In the 1958 elections it won a single seat in the

Løgting The Løgting (pronounced ; ) is the unicameral parliament of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the Danish Realm. The name literally means "''Law Thing''"—that is, a law assembly—and derives from Old Norse ''lǫgþing ...

,Faroes/DK
Parties and Elections taken by . The party retained its single seat in elections in

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...

and

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

, with Mohr remaining its sole MP. Prior to the

1978 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1978. Africa * 1978 Cameroonian parliamentary election * 1978 Comorian legislative election * 1978 Comorian presidential election * 1978 Egyptian protection of national unity and social peace referend ...

it merged with the Fisheries Party to become the Progress and Fisheries Party (''Framburðs- og Fiskivinnuflokkurin''). The new party won two seats, retaining both in the 1980 elections. In 1984 it adopted its final name, again retaining its two seats in the Løgting in the 1984 elections. The party won two seats in elections in 1988,

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

and

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

. However, it lost both seats in the 1998 elections and subsequently folded.

Election results

Faroese general elections

Danish general elections

References

{{Faroese political parties Defunct political parties in the Faroe Islands Defunct Christian political parties Protestant political parties Political parties established in 1954 1954 establishments in the Faroe Islands Political parties disestablished in 2000 2000 disestablishments in the Faroe Islands