Hanna Jensen (born 19 February 1973 in

Leirvík Leirvík ( da, Lervig) is a town on the Faroe Islands and was an important regional ferry harbour at the east coast of the second-largest island Eysturoy. Leirvík has a population of 1,048 (2022). It was the only town in the municipality of Lei ...

) is a Faroese high school teacher and a

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politician (

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Biography

After finishing high school she studied Faroese language and literature at the

University of the Faroe Islands The University of the Faroe Islands ( fo, Fróðskaparsetur Føroya) is a state-run university located in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. It consists of five faculties: Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature, Faculty of Social Sc ...

and French language and literature at the

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as well as

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and

Pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

and finished with a

Cand.mag. Candidatus magisterii (male), or candidata magisterii (female), abbreviated as cand.mag., is an academic degree currently awarded in Denmark. The degree is officially translated into English as Master of Arts and currently requires 5 years of studi ...

degree. Jensen has been teaching and working as a school counsellor at the high school (gymnasium) in Kambsdalur,

Fuglafjørður Fuglafjørður is a village on Eysturoy's east coast in the Faroe Islands. Its name means "fjord of birds". The village is at the edge of a bay and expands into the surrounding steep hills. The town centre is located close to the harbour and ...

since 2005. Before that she was teaching at The Technical college in

Klaksvík Klaksvík is the second largest town of the Faroe Islands behind Tórshavn. The town is located on Borðoy, which is one of the northernmost islands (the Norðoyar). It is the administrative centre of Klaksvík municipality. History The first se ...

. She has also been teaching in Faroese literature at the

Faroese Teachers School The Faroese Teachers School ( fo, Føroya Læraraskúli) is a college in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands, which became part of the University of the Faroe Islands on 1 August 2008. Since 2008 it has offered bachelor's degrees in general and specia ...

(''Føroya Læraraskúli'') in Tórshavn . She lives in

Norðragøta Norðragøta, also just referred to as Gøta is a village on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands. Overview The municipality of Gøta (''Gøtu kommuna'') was a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it merged with Leirvík into Eysturkommuna. Gøta consis ...

. Jensen has been the French Consul General of the Faroe Islands since 2010.

Political career

Jensen's political career started in 2007 when she was elected for the local council of Gøta Municipality, where she was a member for one year from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2008, and continued being a member of the new merged council of

Eystur Municipality Eystur Municipality (Eysturkommuna) is a municipality (kommuna) in the Faroe Islands. In Faroese, ''eystur'' means east and so the municipality is ''East Municipality''. It covers an eastern part of the island of Eysturoy. It was created on 1 Jan ...

, which was a merger between Leirvík and Gøta. Since 2009 she has been member of Eystur Municipality, she was the chairperson for the Culture and Social committee from 2009-2012 and the chairperson for the Culture committee since 2013. Jensen represented People's Party until 2011, when she together with

Poul Michelsen Poul Johan Sundberg Michelsen (born 22 July 1944 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese business man and former politician. He was the leader of Progress (Framsókn), which he and others established in 2011. Before the establishment of Progress, he was a mem ...

established the political party

(Framsókn). Since then Jensen has been the deputy leader of Progress and was the parties vice member to the parliament from 2011 until 2015, where she took seat in parliament on several occasions for Michelsen and

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. Jensen was elected for the Løgting at the general election in 2015.

Bill on same sex marriage

On 24 September 2015 Hanna Jensen along with the independent member of the Løgting

Sonja Jógvansdóttir Sonja J. Jógvansdóttir (born 9 November 1977 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese journalist, politician, and establisher and coordinator of Samtak, the Faroese trade union center. Until 2015, she was a member of Social Democratic Party (Javnaðarflokk ...

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member Kristianna Winther Poulsen and

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member

Bjørt Samuelsen Bjørt Samuelsen (2 March 1965 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese journalist, master in food science (Danish: ) and politician (Republic). Political career She was elected for the Løgting at the 2008 Faroese general election and again in 2011. She wa ...

, submitted a same-sex marriage bill to the Parliament Secretariat. The bill entered Parliament on 17 November 2015. If approved, the law would be scheduled to go into effect on 1 July 2016. The first reading took place 24 November 2015.Dagsskráin 2015 - Týsdagur, 24. November 2015, kl. 10:00
The second reading is expected to take place in the week that starts on 7 March 2016.

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