231:(People's Party) claimed that Varðin in Gøta who owns the fish factory Varðin Pelagic in Tvøroyri owns the vote of Michelsen and Hammer. He said that the owners of Varðin Pelagic had said to the mayor and vice mayor, that if they voted for the auction, then they would not build a new factory as they had planned, and they would not get 70 new jobs. Michelsen said that it was nonsense, he did not get any vote from Gøta at the 2015 elections, and he was not under the influence of Varðin from Gøta.
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electoral register slate. The committee for Suðuroyar Norðara Javnaðarfelag had to submit their list to electoral committee and without an answer from
Kristin Michelsen, met his ultimatum by removing him from the list. In the meantime Kristin Michelsen had himself hurriedly made for himself a new electoral list, the Kommunulistin, or "Municipality List".
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Further controversies escalated when disagreements arose between
Kristin Michelsen and his local party association Suðuroyar Norðara Javnaðarfelag (Local District Labour Association), concerning the election for the municipality, where the candidate with the most votes usually becomes mayor. Kristin
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Michelsen's relationship with the Labour Party escalated further, as Kristin Michelsen as an elected representative of the Labour Party, refused to work with other parliament members for the party. Kristin also refused to commit himself to the coalition agreement his party had agreed on and
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got the second reading. But after eight hours of discussions
Michelsen and Heðin Mortensen—both from the Social Democratic Party—said that they would not vote for the bill, they recommended instead that the bill be sent back to the Welfare Committee for more thorough reading. Their concern was that
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on the matter, with the ultimatum that he would withdraw as candidate, if not signed. Both the committee and the other candidates for Suðuroyar Norðara Javnaðarfelag refused. Following this, Kristin
Michelsen refused to communicate with the committee and tried, unsuccessfully, to join a different
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Another case where
Michelsen was against his own party was regarding the fishery politics which was one of the main themes during the electoral campaign of the Social Democratic Party. The party wished to sell the quotas by auction, but Michelsen and Bjarni Hammer, who are mayor and vice mayor of
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Since the 2011 parliamentary elections
Michelsen has been a controversial politician on several occasions. The coalition parties had the smallest possible majority with only 17 of 33 members of the Løgting. But after only a few days
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Tvøroyri, were against and therefore the case has not yet been solved. In a debate after the news of
Kringvarp Føroya three former politicians discussed the political situation of the Faroe Islands 100 days after the election.
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who was the first openly homosexual person who was elected to the Løgting chose to leave the Social
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