Sambandsflokkurin

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Sambandsflokkurin
unionists
Party leader Bárður á Steig Nielsen
Party leader Bárður á Steig Nielsen
(since October 24, 2015)
founding 1906
Headquarters Tórshavn
Youth organization Ungmannafelagið Samband
Alignment liberal
Colours) Blue , white
Løgting
7/33
Folketing
1/2
Website www.samband.fo
Four founding members in 1906 (from left to right): Niclas Djurhuus from Sumba , Jóhan CF Dam from Kollafjørður , Jógvan Poulsen from Strendur and Óli Niklái Skaalum from Hvalba .

Sambandsflokkurin , or Samband for short ( Faroese for contact, solidarity, union), is a liberal and pro- Danish party in the Faroe Islands . The German name is Unionisten .

history

The Sambandsflokkurin is the oldest Faroese party. Its foundation was announced on August 18, 1906 in the weekly newspaper Dimmalætting . Dimmalætting was to remain the official party organ until the 1990s . Propst Fríðrikur Petersen was elected first chairman .

The main concern of Samband, to maintain the constitutional connection with Denmark, attracted liberals and conservatives alike. Thus Samband initially achieved an absolute majority of Faroese voters, while the Sjálvstýrisflokkurin , which was founded only a short time later and aimed at Faroese autonomy, remained in the minority. A balance of forces was established between the First and Second World Wars . Later, a stable multi-party system with the coordinate cross left-right / unionist-separatist developed. Samband's share of the vote has been between 19 and 29 percent since 1945.

In the referendum on September 14, 1946 , Samband recommended that the separation from Denmark be rejected. The unclear result provoked a constitutional crisis, which could only be ended by the Statute of Autonomy of 1948 . Since then, the unionists have been in government for a total of 35 years, and they have been the prime minister ( Løgmaður ) for more than 20 years .

In the Løgtings election 2011, the party came through votes to eight seats in the Løgting . However, in 2015 she lost two seats and had to join the opposition. The former party chairman Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen was head of government from 2008 to 2015 and chairman of Sambandsflokkurin from 2004 to 2015. On October 24, 2015, Bárður á Steig Nielsen was elected as his successor as the 10th chairman since foundation. His deputy was Magni Laksáfoss .

Party leader

Prime Minister

MPs in Løgting

2011-2015

After the election of October 29, 2011 and after the formation of the Johannesen II government , the following eight members of the Sambandsflokkurin were in Løgting:

2015-

After the election on September 1, 2015, the following six members of the Sambandsflokkurin sit in Løgting:

Member of the Folketing

Samband was able to win a seat in the Danish parliament many times, in every election between 1950 and 1964 and from 1977 to 1984 inclusive; the unionists were also successful in the 1988, 1994, 2001 , 2007 and 2011 elections . The seat was lost again in the 2015 Folketing election .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Samband ( Memento of October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) website of the party (Faroese), accessed on December 25, 2011
  2. ↑ - Hetta er eitt víðgongt stýri , in.fo, Oct. 24, 2015
  3. ↑ Rósti fyrrverandi formanninum , in.fo, Oct. 24, 2015
  4. ↑ Nú stýrir Bárður sambandsskútuni , in.fo, Oct. 24, 2015
  5. ↑ Indenrigs- og sundhedsministeriet: Folketingsvalget, February 8, 2005, Copenhagen 2006, p. 235. Publication available online on the website of the Danish Ministry of Health ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sum.dk