Republic (Faroe Islands)

Republic Tjóðveldi
Leader	Sirið Stenberg
Founders	Erlendur Patursson Hanus við Høgadalsá [da] Sigurð Joensen Jákup í Jákupsstovu [da]
Founded	22–23 May 1948
Headquarters	Postrúm 143, FO-110 Tórshavn
Youth wing	Unga Tjóveldi
Ideology	Democratic socialism[1] Left-wing nationalism[2] Faroese independence[1] Republicanism[3] Euroscepticism[2]
Political position	Left-wing[2]
Nordic affiliation	Nordic Green Left Alliance
Colours	Grey   Green   Dark green   Red   Blue
Løgting	6 / 33
Folketing (Faroe seats)	0 / 2
Election symbol
E
Website
www.tjodveldi.fo
Politics of the Faroe Islands Political parties Elections Formerly Republican Party Tjóðveldisflokkurin (1948–2007)

Republic (Faroese: Tjóðveldi), formerly known as the Republican Party (Faroese: Tjóðveldisflokkurin) is a pro-independence left-wing political party in the Faroe Islands.

History

The party was founded in 1948 as a reaction to the islands failing to gain independence despite the outcome of the 1946 independence referendum, after which independence was subsequently declared but annulled by the Danish King.

In 1998, Høgni Hoydal succeeded Heini O. Heinesen as party leader.

During the 20 January 2004 legislative elections, the party won 21.7% of the popular vote and eight out of 33 seats. However, after the passing of an amendment adding the term "sexual orientation" to paragraph 266b of the Anti-Discrimination Act, MP Karsten Hansen announced that he was leaving the party owing to a difference in opinion. He later joined the Centre Party.

At the elections on 19 January 2008, the party won 23.3% of the vote and eight out of 33 seats.

On 14 September 2007, the party changed its name from Tjóðveldisflokkurin to simply Tjóðveldi (i.e., from "the Republican Party" to just "Republic").

In the Danish parliamentary elections of 2007, the party received 25.4% of the Faroese vote, thereby retaining one of the two Faroese seats in the Danish national Folketing. In the 2011 election, however, its votes declined and it lost its seat to the Social Democrats. It regained its seat in the 2015 election, then lost it again in the 2019 election.

Leaders

Party leaders Erlendur Patursson 1948–1971 Signar Hansen 1971–1994 Heini O. Heinesen 1994–1998 Høgni Hoydal 2000–2024 Sirið Stenberg 2024-present

Parliamentarian leaders Signar Hansen 1986–1989 Heini O. Heinesen 1994–2004 Høgni Hoydal 2004–2008 Annita á Fríðriksmørk 2008 Bergtóra Høgnadóttir Joensen 2008 Sjúrður Skaale 2008–2009 Annita á Fríðriksmørk 2009–2011 Høgni Hoydal 2011–present

Current members of the Løgting

As of the 2022 general snap election:

Name	Elected (E), Re-elected (R), or Appointed (A)	Votes obtained in the general election	Title
Høgni Hoydal	R	760	Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, & Minister of Trade and Industry
Bjørt Samuelsen	R	759	Speaker of the Logting
Sirið Stenberg	R	457	Minister of Social Affairs and Culture
Hervør Pálsdóttir	R	376	Member of the Logting
Annika Olsen^a	E	335	Member of the Logting
Dennis Holm	E	305	Minister of Fisheries
Eirikur í Jákupsstovu	A	295	Substitute Member of the Logting[4]
Liljan Weihe	A	290	Substitute Member of the Logting[4]
Erling Eidesgaard	A	216	Substitute Member of the Logting[4]

a. Formerly a member of the People's Party until mid-November 2022.^[5]

History of Tjóðveldi in the Faroese and Danish general elections

Faroese general election Year Votes Seats Position # % # ± 1950 1,145 9.8 2 / 25 New 4th 1954 3,028 23.8 6 / 27 4 2nd 1958 3,323 23.9 7 / 30 1 2nd 1962 3,281 21.6 6 / 29 1 2nd 1966 3,529 20.0 5 / 26 1 4th 1970 3,963 21.9 6 / 26 1 2nd 1974 4,461 22.5 6 / 26 0 2nd 1978 4,614 20.3 6 / 32 0 3rd 1980 4,415 19.0 6 / 32 0 3rd 1984 4,921 19.5 6 / 32 0 4th 1988 5,520 19.2 6 / 32 0 4th 1990 4,178 14.7 4 / 32 2 4th 1994 3,501 13.7 4 / 32 0 4th 1998 6,584 23.8 8 / 32 4 1st 2002 7,229 23.7 8 / 32 0 2nd 2004 6,890 21.7 8 / 32 0 3rd 2008 7,238 23.3 8 / 33 0 1st 2011 5,584 18.3 6 / 33 2 3rd 2015 6,681 20.7 7 / 33 1 2nd 2019 6,127 18.1 6 / 33 1 4th 2022 6,057 17.7 6 / 33 0 4th

Danish general election Year Votes Members # % 1973 3,312 1 / 2 1975 3,563 1 / 2 1977 3,057 0 / 2 1979 3,886 20.8 0 / 2 1981 3,441 20.7 0 / 2 1984 3,646 19.9 0 / 2 1987 3,478 15.7 0 / 2 1988 4,690 20.5 0 / 2 1990 2,377 13.3 0 / 2 1994 1,798 9.4 0 / 2 1998 4,325 20.9 0 / 2 2001 6,578 24.9 1 / 2 2005 6,301 25.3 1 / 2 2007 5,849 25.4 1 / 2 2011 3,998 19.4 0 / 2 2015 5,730 24.5 1 / 2 2019 4,830 18.6 0 / 2 2022 4,927 18.1 0 / 2

References

1. Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Faroes/Denmark". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
2. Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2014). "The Faroe Islands: Independence dreams, globalist separatism and the Europeanization of postcolonial home rule". Cooperation and Conflict. 49 (1): 55–79. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.972.4698. doi:10.1177/0010836713514150. S2CID 13718740.
3. Christina Bergqvist (1 January 1999). Equal Democracies?: Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries. Nordic Council of Ministers. p. 318. ISBN 978-82-00-12799-4.
4. "Bjørt løgtingsforkvinna og Aksel løgmaður". kvf.fo. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
5. Egholm, Sverri (14 November 2022). "Annika Olsen á tjóðveldislistanum" (in Faroese). dagur.fo. Retrieved 15 November 2022.

External links

• Official site