Høgni Karsten Hoydal (born 28 March 1966), commonly called Høgni Hoydal, is a Faroese politician. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has been the party leader of Tjóðveldi since 1998.

Before taking office

Høgni Hoydal was a reporter of the Faroese national television station, Kringvarp Føroya, for some years prior to his election to the Faroese parliament in 1998.

Political career

Høgni Hoydal brought the Republican Party back up from four MPs to eight in the 1998 elections and into government, due to popular opinion at the time. Høgni Hoydal became Minister of Justice and

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. The coalition stayed in power after the

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in 2002 and brought one more political party into the coalition and government. This coalition, however, broke down on 5 December 2003 and new

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held. After these elections another coalition was formed leaving the Republican Party in opposition. In 2008, Hoydal assumed the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. The government coalition between the Republican Party, the People's Party and the Independence Party agreed on a road map towards independence and initiated negotiations with the

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. The negotiations, however, broke down and the Faroese coalition started going on a path towards greater autonomy by taking over the responsibility of matters previously undertaken by

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. * Member of Republican Party * 1998 member of the Faroese parliament (

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) * 16 May 1998 to 5 September 2003 Minister of Justice and

* 5 February to 15 September 2008 Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Jóannes Eidesgaard * 2001 – 2011 Member of Danish parliament (

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) except for the periods when he was Minister * 2015 – Minister of Fisheries

Member of the Folketing

In 2001, he was elected as one of the two Faroese members of the Danish

. He was re-elected in 2005 and re-elected again in 2007; but in the 2011 election lost the party's only Folketing seat to the Social Democrats'

Sjúrður Skaale Sjúrður Skaale (born 8 March 1967) is a Faroe Islands, Faroese politician, comedian and former journalist currently serving as one of the two Faroese members of the Folketing for the Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands), Social Democratic Par ...

Bibliography

* ''Håb i krise'', written together with Michael Haldrup, 1995 (Danish) * ''Frælsi er Ábyrgd'', 2000 (Faroese) * ''Myten om rigsfællesskabet'', 2000 (Danish)

The Hoydal family

The family name Hoydal takes name after a neighbourhood in

Tórshavn Tórshavn (; ; Danish language, Danish: ''Thorshavn''), usually locally referred to as simply Havn, is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of th ...

named Hoydalar, it is in a valley near Hoyvík. Dánjal Hoydal was the first who took the name, he was Høgni Hoydal's great-grandfather, he was born Joensen. His son was the Faroese writer and politician Karsten Hoydal (1912–1990) who was born in Hoydalar. Karsten Hoydal and his wife Marie Louise Falk-Rønne have four children:

Annika Hoydal Annika Hoydal (born 19 November 1945) is a Faroese singer and actress. Hoydal was a contestant for the 1979 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and was nominated for the 2016 Faroese Music Awards. The Hoydal family The family name Hoydal takes name after ...

, born 1945, is an actor and singer, Gunnar Hoydal, born 1941 is also a writer, Kjartan Hoydal, born 1941 (Gunnar and Kjartan are twins) was secretary of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) and is now director of sp/f Skrivarastova Fish and Film. They have another son called Egil. Høgni Hoydal is Kjartan Hoydal's son.

References

External links

* Løgtingið og høvundarnir 2: ''Løgtingið 150'' (1st ed.) p. 288. Tórshavn Løgtingið 2002.
The North Atlantic Group in the Danish Parliament

Co-Creator of current Faro Whaling policy
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