Clas Markussen

The Right Honourable Clas Markuson MP
President of Ordennya
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 June 2019
Vice President	Josephine Petersson
Preceded by	Michel Fallow
Leader of the Opposition
In office 20 May 2019 – 24 June 2019
President	Michel Fallow
Preceded by	Niamh Cooper
Succeeded by	Valdemar Söderberg
Leader of the Green Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 May 2019
Deputy	Loke Mathisen Petra Berntsen
Preceded by	Niamh Cooper
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 10 October 2018 – 20 May 2019
Leader	Niamh Cooper
Preceded by	Bernard Valls
Succeeded by	Erica Öberg
Secretary of State for Federal Affairs & Communities
In office 10 May 2018 – 18 August 2018
President	Ken Turin Niamh Cooper(Acting)
Preceded by	Lilly Carson (Devolution and Constitutional Reform)
Succeeded by	Lucan Saint-Meyer
Deputy Leader of the Green Party
In office 1 December 2016 – 20 May 2019
Leader	Niamh Cooper
Preceded by	Niamh Cooper Albert H. Montpelier
Succeeded by	Loke Mathisen Petra Berntsen
Member of Parliament for Perdrix
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Liliana Surdu
Majority	28,994 (49.6%)
Director of Communications for the Leader of Opposition
In office 15 September 2005 – 10 May 2010
Leader	Jean Oak
Preceded by	Michel Vilod
Succeeded by	Seumas Milne
Personal details
Born	(1973-04-03) 3 April 1973 Perdrix, Osea, Ordennya
Political party	LPV (2010 - present)
Other political affiliations	Independent (Before 2010)
Domestic partner	Aisling Lavigne
Alma mater	Osea State University

Clas Markuson (born April 4 1973) is an Ordennyan politician and journalist. He is currently serving as President of Ordennya, Leader of the Green Party, and Member of Parliament for Perdrix. A former Cabinet Minister, he held positions in the 2015-2018 Coalition of Socialists & Democrats/Green Party coalition cabinet, first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and later as Secretary of State for Federal Affairs & Communities. An Independent before 2010, he served as Director of Communications to former Labour Party leader Jean Oak, while he was Leader of the Opposition. He resigned from this position shortly after the 2010 election, joining the Green Party, becoming the Director of Strategy for the overall Green Party, and is credited as the architect of their 2015 election campaign, where the Greens tripled their seat count and vote share. Markuson himself was elected as an MP in the 2015 election, and was appointed to the cabinet alongside a number of his Green Party colleagues. He stood for election to the Deputy Leadership of the Green Party, after Niamh Cooper and Albert H. Montpelier both resigned to contest the Party leadership. As Markuson was the only candidate in the election, he won 173,991 to 4,822 votes to re-open nominations. As Deputy Leader, he continued his role as Director of Strategy for the Green Party during the 2018 snap election campaign, and, alongside the manifesto and campaign led by Niamh Cooper, is credited with the Greens reaching first place in an election for the first time in its history. In 2019, he was elected Leader of the Green Party, and took office as Leader of the Opposition, before leading the Green Party into the 2019 snap election, the second election in 8 months, in which the Greens emerged victorious.