Sjúrður Skaale
Sjúrður Skaale | |
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| Member of the Folketing | |
| Assumed office 15 September 2011 | |
| Constituency | Faroe Islands |
| Member of the Løgting | |
| In office 19 January 2008 – 29 October 2011 | |
| Constituency | Suðurstreymoy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 March 1967 The Kingdom of Denmark |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Sjúrður Skaale (born 8 March 1967 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese politician, journalist, skydiver, belly dancer, and comedian. He is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democratic Party. From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the Løgting.
Background
He took his
Faroese Government 1999–2001 and secretary of The North Atlantic Group (Danish: Den Nordatlantiske Gruppe, Faroese: Norðuratlantsbólkurin) 2001–2005. From 2005–2008, he worked in the public sector, as a high school teacher and as an independent consultant in education.[1]
Entertainment career
Skaale has had a number of acting roles, but is best known for the comedy series Pipar & Salt, where he appeared with Jákup Veyhe, and for the lead in the comedy series E elski Førjar (2008). E elski Førjar means "I love the Faroe Islands", but it is misspelled on purpose, the correct spelling would be "Eg elski Føroyar". In both comedy series, he sang several songs, of which some became quite popular. Some of the songs which he sings:
From Pipar & Salt:
- Eg havi tað strævið (It Is Hard Work For Me) - as persona Esmar Eysturoy
- Lívið er oyðilagt, tá gentur fáa makt (Life Is Ruined When Girls Get Power), (James Olsen sings the refrain) the song makes joke about a man who is afraid of female power. He sings this song while acting as the character Kári Cool in the Pipar & Salt series[2]
- Lat tey vita, ólavsøka er (Let Them Know That It Is Ólavsøka) sings together with Jákup Veyhe and others. The song makes joke about the economical crisis in the 1990s which was especially hard on the island Suðuroy.[3]
- Jólagleði (christmas joy)
From E elski Førjar:
- Danskt pjatt (Danish Nonsense) - from the series "E elski førjar" in the role as a Faroese man named Haraldur. The song makes joke about this Faroese man who lives in Copenhagen, he is married to a Danish women but despises everything which is typical Danish and loves everything which is typical Faroese.[4]
- Tað er lekkirt (It's Lovely)
- Tín innari gjeikari (Your Inner Gay Guy)[5]
Political career
He was a member of the
member of the Folketing since 2011, and is the chairman of the Folketing's Faeroes group, part of Denmark's delegation to the Nordic Council and a member of the Folketing's foreign policy committee. Before the election to the Danish Folketing, Skaale and the Social Democratic Party promised the Faroese voters, that he and the other candidates of the party would not run for the Faroese Løgting as well, if they were elected, because they believed that it was impossible to be a full-time member of the Faroese parliament and a full-time member of the Danish Folketing at the same time. And Skaale kept his promise, he was not a candidate for the Faroese elections in 2011.[7]
At the
Javnaðarflokkurin again; he received 2495 personal votes and became the top scorer of all candidates of all parties in the Faroe Islands and was one of two candidates who got elected.[8]
Skaale was a candidate for the
Tjóðveldi and Framsókn, four of the elected members of the Løgting took leave because they were elected ministers, and Skaale could have taken seat in the Faroese parliament for Rigmor Dam who became Minister of Finance. Javnaðarflokkurin's policy now forbids their members from being members of both parliaments simultaneously.[9] Skaale can choose at some point to take leave from the Folketing in order to be a member of the Løgting, and during the electoral campaign he expressed that wish, because being full time and the whole time only in the Danish parliament distanced the Faroese members of the Folketing from what was going on in the Løgting.[10]
References
- ^ "Sjúrður Skaale (JF)". Ft.dk. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ The song on Youtube.com
- ^ Youtube.com Lat Tey Vita Ólavsøka Er
- ^ Youtube.com Danskt pjatt
- ^ "Tín innari gjeikari" (in Faroese). YouTube - OlderSnake. 27 May 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Johannesen, Johnsigurd (27 May 2011). "Sjúrður Skaale farin úr Tjóðveldi" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Kringvarp.fo, Sjúrður Skaale farin úr Tjóðveldi
- ^ "Fólkatingsval 18. juni 2015" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. 18 June 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Skaale, Sjúrður (10 August 2015). "Fólkating og Løgting – annað í senn" (in Faroese). in.fo (Sosialurin). Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Løwe, Beinta; Johannesen, Johnsigurd (19 June 2015). "Fara í nevndir, ið hava týdning fyri Føroyar" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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