List of political parties in the Faroe Islands

On to Denmark belonging, autonomous Faroe Islands since 1948 there are the following political parties:

The political landscape of the Faroe Islands differs not only between the left ( Social Democrats, Republicans ) and right ( People's Party, Centre Party, unionists ), but transverse to it again between the advocacy of the imperial community with Denmark (especially unionists and social democrats ) and detachment ( particularly Republicans and people's Party).

Since 2005 /06 a crack going through all bearing on the legal equality of homosexuals, a dividing line between Christian and fundamentally secular liberal. While, for example, entered the chairman of Republicans, Unionists and Socialists in favor of liberalization, it rumbled in the party people, and prominent members left their parties under protest. In 2008, the Christian Centre Party continued existence of the coalition with the Social Democrats and Republicans in question. For an internationally acclaimed scandal occurred in 2010, when several politicians stayed away from an official lunch with the openly lesbian Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardottir.

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