Edmund Esbern Johannes Joensen (born 19 September 1944 in

Oyri Oyri is a village on the central west coast of the Faroese island Eysturoy in the Sunda municipality. The 2005 population was 142. Its postal code is FO 450. The village is south of the Eysturoy-to- Streymoy bridge, and is home to a large fish pr ...

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) is a Faroese politician, who was the

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of the

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from 1994 to 1998. From 2015 to 2022 served as a member of the Danish

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, being one of two Faroese seats in parliament. He did not stand in the

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and his granddaughter Anna Falkenberg replaced him as Member of the Folketing for the Union Party of which Joensen is a member.

Political career

He was first elected to the

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in 1988, and remained in parliament until 2011. He was Prime Minister from 1994 to 1998, speaker of the parliament from 2002 to 2008, and member of the Danish

from 1994 to 1998 and again from

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to 2015, and again from 2019. The Faroe Islands elect two members to the Danish Folketing. He returned to the Løgting from 2015 to 2019.

External links

Sambandsflokkurin

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)

References

1944 births Living people People from Eysturoy Members of the Løgting Prime Ministers of the Faroe Islands Union Party (Faroe Islands) politicians Speakers of the Løgting Faroese members of the Folketing Members of the Folketing 1994–1998 Members of the Folketing 2007–2011 Members of the Folketing 2011–2015 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 {{Faroes-politician-stub