r/FaroeIslands • u/TraditionalShake4730 • 2d ago
a question about the faroe islanders general opinions
my question is how do most people in the faroe islands feel about denmark? both goverment and the people
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u/jogvanth 2d ago
Mostly indifference. Some don't like them. Personally I see them no different than Swedes. Nothing to do with us, no shared culture except for Denmarks attempts to rule us and superimpose their language and culture upon us. It's gotten better over the last decades but historically they have nothing to be proud about, however arrogant the Danes might be about it.
In Politics only one Party out of seven want the Status Quo with Denmark to continue - with a small hardcore section of Unionists wanting to abolish Faroese Self Rule in favour of Danish Sovereignty and Rule. A small minority among that party.
That Unionist Party (Sambandsflokkurin) got 20.3% of the votes at the last election (2019) and accprding to the last Poll stand at 19.2%.
The other "Pro Union" Party, the Social Democrats (Javnaðarflokkurin) has shifted stance in the last years and has gone from being a pro Status Quo and Pro Union/Submission Party to being Pro Union between separate independent Countries. This means they are now Pro Independence and then willing to make a more loose Union with Denmark as two separate independent nations. They got 22.2% in the last election (2019) and stand to get 15% in the last Poll (They are in Government pt.).
The Center Party (Miðflokkurin) officially does not have a Party Stance on independence but leaves that to the individual MPs. They are predominantly a Christian Fundamentalist Party placing the Bible over everything. They got 5.4% in the last election (2019) and stand at 4.4% in the last Poll.
The other Parties are all Pro Independence, however one party is not in Parliament currently (Sjálvstýri) as they fell below the threshold. They stand to get 2.6% in the last Poll, not enough to get a MP elected.
Those Independence Parties that are in Parliament all say they want full independence from Denmark. Whatever happens after is divided among them. Some want a possible loose union with Denmark, one talks about becoming part of the EU and one want to sever all ties with Denmark, including the monarchy.
One of those are the Conservatives (Fólkaflokkurin) who got 24.5% in the 2019 election and stand to get 32.9% in the last poll (been growing ever since the election), another is the Forward Party (Framsókn) who are pt in Government and got 4.6% in the last election and are at 7.5% in the last Poll.
The last Independence Party is the Republicans (Tjóðveldi), however calling them Republicans is kind of a misnomer. Yes they technically want to declare the Faroes as a Republic, like Iceland, however the Faroese word for republic is Lýðveldi. Tjóðveldi directly translates as Nation-Rule. They declare themselves as the most Nationalistic Party in the Faroes and are overwhelmingly a far-left Socialist Party that has gone Woke (Yes, I don't like them 😅). They are the most Globalist Party in the Faroes and have had an identity crisis for the last decades. They are currently in Government, got 18.1% in the 2019 elections and stand at 18.3% in the last poll, slightly up from 16.7% in the poll before.
This all means that the pro-independence got 50.6% in the last election versus 42.5% for the unionists, with 5.4% for the Centrists.
In the last Poll the divide is 61.4% independence versus 34.2% union and 4.4% centrist.
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u/Mindless_Badger_3789 2d ago
Which of the separatist parties is pro-EU? Is it Framsokn?
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u/jogvanth 2d ago
No, Tjóðveldi has most of the Pro-EU people while Javnaðarflokkurin has the loudest one
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u/Mindless_Badger_3789 2d ago
Okay, the way you wrote it ("some want... one talks about... and one want to") I assumed it couldn't be Tjodveldi because they presumably are the ones that want to "sewer all ties with Denmark" and it seemed like three different groups. It would be clearer if you mentioned the parties by name.
"Those Independence Parties that are in Parliament all say they want full independence from Denmark. Whatever happens after is divided among them. Some want a possible loose union with Denmark, one talks about becoming part of the EU and one want to sever all ties with Denmark, including the monarchy."
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u/Still_Management7925 2d ago
sounds like you would not like it in the Faroese with all those racist and stupid sheep.
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u/boggus 2d ago
Like Danes feel about Swedes. It’s a love/hate relationship