General elections were held in the
Faroe Islands
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on 19 January 2008, the latest possible date. The
Self-Government Party and the
Centre Party gained a seat each while the
Social Democratic Party
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lost a seat.
It had been considered to amend the election law to hold the election two weeks later to pass a number of important bills before the election, but in the end the negotiations on this failed and the election was called on 2007-12-07. Prior to this election, the electoral system was changed in 2007 from a system with seven multi-member constituencies, which had some elements of
mixed member proportional
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voting, to a system with a single constituency for the whole country in order to reduce disproportionality.
Prior to the election, the
Social Democratic Party
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formed a centrist unionist government with the
People's Party and the
Union Party. After the elections, four days of negotiations saw a centre-left separatist government emerge; while the Social Democratic Party retained the PM's post, the strongly pro-independence
Republic got the majority of ministerial posts (including the newly created post of foreign minister). The
Centre Party also participated in the new government. Among the coalition agreement points was a plan to draft a constitution for the Faroe Islands, which would be approved in a
referendum to be held in 2010.
The coalition broke up in mid-2008, however, and a government consisting of the parties governing before the 2008 election was sworn in on 26 September 2008, with
Kaj Leo Johannesen
Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen (born 28 August 1964 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese politician. He was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands, representing the Faroese Unionist Party ( Sambandsflokkurin). He took office, succeeding Jóannes Eidesgaard on ...
as PM instead.
Results
See also
*
List of members of the Løgting, 2008–11
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
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References
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Faroes
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 betw ...
2008 in the Faroe Islands
Elections in the Faroe Islands
January 2008 events in Europe