Career
Høgni Hoydal was a reporter of the Faroese national television station, Kringvarp Føroya, for some years prior to his election to the Faroese parliament in 1998. Høgni Hoydal brought the Republican Party back up from 4 MPs to 8 in the 1998 elections and into government, due to popular opinion at the time. Høgni Hoydal became Minister of Justice and deputy Prime Minister.
This coalition, however, broke down on 5 December 2003 and new elections held.
After these elections another coalition was formed leaving the Republican Party in opposition. In 2008, Hoydal assumed the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The government coalition between the Republican Party, the People"s Party and the Independence Party agreed on a roadmap towards independence and initiated negotiations with the Government of Denmark. The negotiations, however, broke down and the Faroese coalition started going on a path towards greater autonomy by taking over the responsibility of matters taken care of by Denmark until then
16 May 1998 to 5 September 2003 Minister of Justice and deputy Prime Minister
5 February to 15 September 2008 Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Jóannes Eidesgaard
He was re-elected in 2005 and re-elected again in 2007.
But in the 2011 election lost the party"s only Folketing seat to the Social Democrats" Sjúrður Skaale. The family name Hoydal takes name after a neighborhood in Tórshavn named Hoydalar, it is in a valley near Hoyvík. Dánjal Hoydal was the first who took the name, he was Høgni Hoydal"s great grandfather, he was born Joensen.
They have another son called Egil.
Høgni Hoydal is Kjartan Hoydal"s son.