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 Sonja Jógvansdóttir who was the first openly homosexual person who was elected to the Løgting chose to leave the Social Democratic Party, because she did not wish to be a part of a party which she deemed was ruled by a few homophobic men.
