Sonja Jógvansdóttir
{{Short description|Faroese journalist and politician}}
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|order = Member of Parliament
|term_start = 15 September 2015
|term_end = August 2019
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1977|11|9}}
|birth_place = Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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|party = None, earlier Social Democratic Party (Javnaðarflokkurin)
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Sonja J. Jógvansdóttir (born 9 November 1977[http://www.j.fo/Sonja-Jogvansdottir.aspx?ID=493 j.fo - Sonja Jógvansdóttir] in Tórshavn)[http://www.kvindernesblaabog.dk/Default.aspx?pageid=17523 kvindernesblaabog.dk - Sonja J. Jógvansdóttir] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925110548/http://www.kvindernesblaabog.dk/Default.aspx?pageid=17523 |date=2015-09-25 }} is a Faroese journalist, politician, and establisher and coordinator of Samtak, the Faroese trade union center. Until 2015, she was a member of Social Democratic Party (Javnaðarflokkurin). She is a spokesperson for the rights of homosexual people and their rights in the Faroe Islands and was one of the establishers of LGBT Faroe Islands in 2011.[http://kvf.fo/roddin-savn/?p=13154 kvf.fo - Stór undirtøka fyri LGBT Føroyar], published 3 June 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.in.fo/index.php?id=42&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=312643&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=683a9e0a5cc1da40fcf389ca8d54099c |title=in.fo - Sonja Jógvansdóttir ætlar sær á ting |access-date=2016-03-04 |archive-date=2015-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925192352/http://www.in.fo/index.php?id=42&tx_news_pi1[news]=312643&tx_news_pi1[controller]=News&tx_news_pi1[action]=detail&cHash=683a9e0a5cc1da40fcf389ca8d54099c |url-status=dead }}[http://kvf.fo/roddin-savn/?p=23826 kvf.fo - LGBT Føroyar skipar nýggja nevnd og byggir víðari]
Political career
On 1 September 2015, Jógvansdóttir became the first Faroese person, who lives openly as a homosexual, who was elected to the Faroese parliament.[http://kvinfo.dk/webmagasinet/stemmesluger-sonja-jogvansdottir-faeroeerne-er-klar-til-homo-vielser kvinfo.dk - Stemmesluger Sonja Jógvansdóttir: Færøerne er klar til homo-vielser][http://local.fo/lgbt-not-mentioned-in-new-coalition/ local.fo - LGBT not mentioned in new coalition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220014134/http://local.fo/lgbt-not-mentioned-in-new-coalition/ |date=2016-02-20 }} She received second most votes of the Social Democratic Party. A few days after the election and just after the government of Aksel V. Johannesen was appointed, she left the Social Democratic Party. The reason she left according to herself was that she did not wish to be a part of a homophobic party, as she felt that it was. At the same time she promised that she would support the government of Aksel V. Johannesen.{{cite web|url=http://antares.fo/sonja+tikid+seg+ur+javnadarflokkinum.html|title=Sonja tikið seg úr Javnaðarflokkinum|date=16 September 2016|publisher=Antares.fo|language=Faroese|accessdate=4 March 2016}} As of March 2016, she is still an independent politician in the Løgting. The government coalition parties of the Løgting have only 16 members of 33, after the exit of Jógvansdóttir.
= Bill on same sex marriage =
On 24 September 2015, Jógvansdóttir along with Republic member of the Løgting Bjørt Samuelsen, Social Democratic member Kristianna Winther Poulsen and Progress member Hanna Jensen, submitted a same-sex marriage bill to the Parliament Secretariat.{{in lang|fo}} [http://kvf.fo/greinar/2015/09/24/uppskot-broyta-hjunabandslogina-latid-tinginum#.VgRuDNJVikp Uppskot at broyta hjúnabandslógina latið tinginum] The bill entered Parliament on 17 November 2015. If approved, the law would be scheduled to go into effect on 1 July 2016. The first reading took place 24 November 2015.{{in lang|fo}} [http://www.logting.fo/casenormal/view.gebs?menuChanged=16&type=0&caseNormal.id=2603 19/2015 Uppskot til rikislógartilmæli um at seta í gildi fyri Føroyar partar av broytingum í hjúnabandslógini og rættarvirknaðarlógini] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002180440/http://www.logting.fo/casenormal/view.gebs?menuChanged=16&type=0&caseNormal.id=2603 |date=2018-10-02 }}{{in lang|fo}} [http://www.logting.fo/chambermeeting/list.gebs?menuChanged=13 Dagsskráin 2015 - Týsdagur, 24. November 2015, kl. 10:00] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105134224/http://www.logting.fo/chambermeeting/list.gebs?menuChanged=13 |date=2018-11-05 }} The second reading of the bill was held on 16 March 2016, after which modifications were made. The bill was passed by the Løgting on 29 April 2016, ratified by the Folketing in April 2017, and went into effect on 1 July 2017.
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Category:Members of the Løgting
Category:Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands) politicians
Category:Faroese women in politics
Category:Faroese LGBTQ politicians
Category:21st-century women politicians