Høgni Hoydal

Høgni Karsten Hoydal (born 28 March 1966), commonly called Høgni Hoydal, is a Faroese politician, who served as Minister of Fisheries and deputy prime minister from 2015 to 2019. He has been the party leader of Tjóðveldi since 1998.

Høgni Hoydal
Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
In office 15 September 2015 – 16 September 2019
Prime Minister	Aksel V. Johannesen
Preceded by	Annika Olsen
Succeeded by	Jørgen Niclasen
In office 5 February 2008 – 15 September 2008
Prime Minister	Jóannes Eidesgaard
Preceded by	Bjarni Djurholm
Succeeded by	Jørgen Niclasen
In office 15 May 1998 – 5 December 2003
Prime Minister	Anfinn Kallsberg
Preceded by	Jóannes Eidesgaard
Succeeded by	Bjarni Djurholm
Minister of Fisheries
In office 15 September 2015 – 16 September 2019
Prime Minister	Aksel V. Johannesen
Preceded by	Jacob Vestergaard
Leader of Tjóðveldi
Incumbent
Assumed office 2000
Preceded by	Heini O. Heinesen
Member of Løgting
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 November 2001
Constituency	Faroe Islands (2001-2011 & 2015-)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 4 February 2008 – 15 September 2008
Prime Minister	Jóannes Eidesgaard
Succeeded by	Jørgen Niclasen
Minister of Selfgoverning and Justice
In office 15 May 1998 – 5 December 2003
Prime Minister	Anfinn Kallsberg
Preceded by	Óli Jacobsen
Succeeded by	Jógvan við Keldu
Personal details
Born	Høgni Karsten Hoydal (1966-03-28) 28 March 1966 Copenhagen, Denmark
Spouse(s)	Hildur Hermansen
Children	3
Parents	Gunvør and Kjartan Hoydal

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 deputy Prime Minister.

The coalition stayed in power after the parliamentary elections in 2002 and brought one more political party into the coalition and government. This coalition, however, broke down on 5 December 2003 and new elections 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 Government of Denmark. 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 Denmark.

• Member of Republican Party
• 1998 member of the Faroese parliament (Løgting)
• 16 May 1998 to 5 September 2003 Minister of Justice and deputy Prime Minister
• 5 February to 15 September 2008 Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Jóannes Eidesgaard
• 2001 - 2011 Member of Danish parliament (Folketing) 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 Folketing. 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.[1]

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 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, 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.[2]

References

1. dst.dk
2. "Høgni Hoydal". Tjóðveldi. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

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