Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur
Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur | |
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| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 2011 | |
| Constituency | Norðoyar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 October 1963 Klaksvík, Faroe Islands |
| Political party | People's Party |
| Children | 3 |
Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur (born 26 October 1963) is a Faroese policewoman and politician of the conservative People's Party. She has been a member of Løgting since 2011.
Career[]
Gunnleygsdóttur worked for two years (1983-85) as an assistant at Postverk Føroya. She then began training with the police.
Politics[]
Gunnleygsdóttur has been sitting in the town council of her home town of Klaksvík since 2009. She also sat in various committees.
At the end of October 2011, she was elected to Løgting with 344 personal voices.[1] She was chairman of the Judiciary Committee and was also a member of the Committee on Welfare.
In the elections to the Løgting on 1 September 2015 she was reelected with 371 personal votes.[2] After Annika Olsen's resignation, she is the only female deputy not only in her faction, but in the entire opposition.
Personal life[]
Gunnleygsdóttur, who is daughter of Ellinor Maria and Gunnleyður Jakobsen is married to Finn Hansen. The couple have three children.[3]
References[]
- ^ Løgtingsval 29. Oktober 2011 Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, kvf.fo
- ^ Løgtingsval 1. September 2015 Archived 2015-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, kvf.fo.
- ^ Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur, logting.fo
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Members of the Løgting
- People's Party (Faroe Islands) politicians
- Faroese women in politics
- People from Klaksvík
- 21st-century Danish women politicians