Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur (born 26 October 1963) is a Faroese policewoman and politician of the conservative People's Party. She has been a member of

Løgting The Løgting (pronounced ; da, Lagtinget) 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 ''l ...

since 2011.

Career

Gunnleygsdóttur worked for two years (1983-85) as an assistant at Postverk Føroya. She then began training with the police.

Politics

Gunnleygsdóttur has been sitting in the town council of her home town of Klaksvík since 2009. She also sat in various committees. At the end of October 2011, she was elected to Løgting with 344 personal voices. She was chairman of the Judiciary Committee and was also a member of the Committee on Welfare. In the elections to the Løgting on 1 September 2015 she was reelected with 371 personal votes. After

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's resignation, she is the only female deputy not only in her faction, but in the entire opposition.

Personal life

Gunnleygsdóttur, who is daughter of Ellinor Maria and Gunnleyður Jakobsen is married to Finn Hansen. The couple have three children.Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur
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References

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