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'''Ottila Möller''' ({{wpl|née}} '''Schnyder''', born 15 February 1973) is an [[Alsland|Alslandic]] politician and civil servant who has served as [[List of Premiers of Alsland|Premier of Alsland]] since January 2021.
'''Ottila Möller''' ({{wpl|née}} '''Schnyder''', born 15 February 1973) is an [[Alsland|Alslandic]] politician and civil servant who has served as [[Premier of Alsland]] since April 2020 until September 2022.  


Möller was born in Werdau, [[Provinces of Alsland|Garz]] and studied {{wpl|Public policy}} at Glachau University. Möller was employed at the [[Cabinet of Alsland|Department of Finance]] until 2011 when she was elected to the Folkssenaat. Möller quickly became a close ally of the leader of the [[List of political parties in Alsland|Social Democratic Alliance]], [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Roland Kreutzwald]]. Möller supported Kreutzwald in 2013 after he failed to oust Premier [[List of Premiers of Alsland|Jonathan Fraser]].
Ottila Möller was born on 15 February 1973 in Werdau in [[Provinces of Alsland|Garz]], [[Alsland]] and was the only child of Per Schnyder who was an [[Euclean Parliament|MEP]] from 1989 until his death in 2013 and his wife Tanja Jung. In 1991, she attended Glauchau University and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Public Policy. From 1996 until 2002 she lived and worked in [[Verlois]] before returning to Alsland. She became Mayor of Sachsenscheid in 2008. She helped found the Progressive Alliance after it split from the Workers' Party.


Möller became leader of the Social Democratic Alliance in 2017 after Kreutzwald resigned. In 2020 she became the [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Progressive Alliance]]'s candidate for Premier. The Progressive Alliance emerged as the largest bloc following the [[2020 Alslandic legislative election]] and Möller subsequently became Premier on 26 January 2021.
In 2014 she became the first female [[Cabinet of Alsland|Secretary of Finance]] in Alsland after being appointed by [[Liekele Ykema]]. Möller became the leader of [[Progressive Holsteen]] in 2016. After Ykema announced his resignation as Premier in 2018 she was initially the frontrunner to succeed him but ruled herself out and instead backed [[Hepke Veltman]] who succeeded Ykema as Premier. Following the 2020 Presidential election which Veltman won Möller became the coalition's agreed candidate for Premier, her government was formed on 25 April 2020. Möller became the first social-democrat to hold the office of Premier in Alsland since [[Bonne Zijlstra]] and was the first woman and first member of the [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Progressive Alliance]] to hold the position. As Premier she has oversaw the expansion of the Alsrail network, the beginning of the complete phasing out of nuclear energy and the [[2021 Yndyk train bombing]] which was the worst terrorist attack committed in Alsland.
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Möller resigned after the fallout of the [[SYFA spying scandal]].
==Early life==
==Early life==
Ottila Möller was born on 15 February 1973 in Werdau in [[Provinces of Alsland|Garz]], [[Alsland]] and was the only child of Per Möller who was an [[Euclean Parliament|MEP]] from 1979 until 1999 and his wife Tanja Jung. In 1992, she attended Glauchau University and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Public Policy. From 1997 until 1999 she lived in [[Gaullica]] before returning to Alsland. Shortly after this she entered the Alslandic civil service as a Public policy advisor within the Department of Finance.  
Möller was born in 1973 and was the youngest child of [[List of members of the Euclean Parliament for Alsland, 2019–2024|MEP]] [[Alsland|Per Schnyder]] (1930-2013) and Tanja Schnyder (1939-2008, née Jung). She attended the Konrad Drachmann Secondary School in Werdau. She graduated in 1991.


In 2005 Möller helped to organise a civil servants strike after the government introduced a wage reduction of civil servants following the 2005 Recession. The wage reductions were cancelled two weeks into the strike.
She attended Glauchau University and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Public Policy where she graduated in 1995. In 1996 Möller moved to [[Verlois]] where she worked for a Gaullican insurance company. In 2002 Möller returned to Alsland and worked as an accountant in [[Yndyk]] for several years.
==Political career==
==Political career==
===Senator===
===Mayor of Sachsenscheid===
In the [[2011 Alslandic legislative election|2011 legislative election]] Möller was elected to the Folkssenaat. Möller identified closely to the {{wpl|Centrism|centrist}} ideology of [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Roland Kreutzwald]] and [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Manna Wouda]] over the {{wpl|Democratic Socialism|Socialist}} platform of [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Jonathan Fraser]] and [[Bonne Zijlstra]].  
In 2008 Möller became Mayor of Sachsenscheid after she defeated the incumbent Sotirian Schoenauer who had held the position for 20 years. Upon becoming mayor she opposed austerity policies implemented in response to the financial crisis and directed local authorities to increase funding for food banks. She also petitioned the government to grant extra funding to local authorities to handle the financial crisis. In 2013 she and 100 other mayors from Holsteen declared their opposition to Holsaten independence in response to the election of a separatist government in Holsteen.
 
===Secretary of Finance===
In 2013 Möller backed Roland Kreutzwald's unsuccessful bid to replace Jonathan Fraser as Premier. Fraser defeated Kreutzwald who was sidelined from further cabinet meetings. In the [[2014 Alslandic legislative election|2014 legislative election]] the Progressive Alliance was defeated by the National Bloc and Fraser resigned as Premier.  
[[File:Rumen Radev attends the 2019 NATO Summit in Watford (9).jpg|thumb|left|Ottila Möller at a meeting of EC Finance Ministers in 2016.]]
 
After the 2014 legislative election then Secretary of Finance [[Alsland|Roland Kreutzwald]] retired from politics. Shortly after this Progressive Holsteen recommended Möller as his replacement, on 13 October the Folkssenaat confirmed her appointment to the position. She became the first female Secretary of Finance in Alslandic history. In 2016 Möller chaired several meetings of [[Euclean Community|EC]] finance ministers where she endorsed granting the EC further budgetary powers. In 2018 her budget was voted down by the Folkssenaat shortly before the 2018 election which led to intense media scrutiny on if she would be reappointed to the position following the election. [[Liekele Ykema]] was forced to defend Möller's position during a leaders debate prior to the election.  
Möller was a member of a panel established by the Folkssenaat to investigate corruption allegations against Premier [[List of Premiers of Alsland|Aarnd Hellinga]] and [[List of Premiers of Alsland|Aachtsje Wieringa]] and became a household name for her questioning of both Premiers and other officials. Eventually both were found to have knowledge of extensive corruption within the government between 2014 and 2016 and Hellinga was arrested in 2018.


After the [[2017 Alslandic legislative election|2017 legislative election]] Möller criticised the Progressive Alliance's campaign and especially her former ally Roland Kreutzwald who was the bloc's candidate for Premier.
After the election Ykema's coalition partner [[Civic Initiative]] refused to enter negotiations with him leading to his resignation shortly afterwards. As a result Möller was named as the most likely candidate to succeed Ykema by [[Hjoed]] and [[Alslandyske Nijs en Radiotsjinst|ANS]]. She was proposed as a candidate for Premier by [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Progressive Alliance]] and the [[Humanist Sotirian Union]], she ruled herself out as a candidate for Premier and instead recommended Minister-President of Yndyk [[Hepke Veltman]] to the coalition at a meeting. Veltman's cabinet was confirmed in December 2018 where Möller retained her position.  


Eventually Kreutzwald resigned as the leader of the Social Democratic Alliance when coalition negotiations with the [[List of political parties in Alsland|Workers Party]] and [[List of political parties in Alsland|The Centre]] collapsed. Möller won the contest, defeating [[Progressive Alliance (Alsland)|Lars Mittermaier]].
In 2019 Veltman announced his intention to run for [[President of Alsland]] and resign if he was successful. It was agreed by a meeting of coalition party leaders shortly after this that Möller would succeed him if he was successful. After Veltman narrowly won the election he resigned as Premier and Möller was proposed to the Folkssenaat as his successor. Her government was confirmed by the Folkssenaat on 25 April 2020, the same day Veltman assumed the Presidency.
 
Möller was selected as the Progressive Alliance's candidate for Premier in early 2020. The bloc won the [[2020 Alslandic legislative election|2020 legislative election]] and bloc's seat total was the largest since 2003. Möller became Premier on 26 January 2021 after the [[2021 Yndyk train bombing]] caused coalition negotiations between the [[National Bloc (Alsland)|National Bloc]], The Centre and the [[List of political parties in Alsland|National Rally]] to collapse due to the bomber's connection to the latter. Möller became the first Premier to be sworn in during winter in Alsland.
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Shortly after being sworn in as Premier, Möller announced that a public inquiry into the bombing would be established and look into how the attack wasn't prevented. In May 2021 Möller's government introduced strict new anti-terrorism measures to curb further attacks. The measures were decried as draconian and overly strict but the Folkssenaat approved the measures nearly unanimously.
After the [[2021 Yndyk train bombing]] Möller announced an inquiry into the attack and the creation of a new anti-terrorism department. The Folkssenaat passed a strict anti-terrorism bill which some critics said increased government surveillance.
 
Möller's government lost it's majority less than 100 days after she was sworn in when various centrist parties formed [[Together for the Republic]] and withdrew from the confidence and supply agreement negotiated between the Green Party and The Centre. Former Premier [[List of Premiers of Alsland|Asser Toman]] called the country 'ungovernable' following the split and members of Möller's government criticised the new bloc however Möller remained silent on the issue.
 
In July 2021 Möller announced she would seek to form a {{wpl|Grand coalition}} with the [[National Bloc (Alsland)|National Bloc]] and Together for the Republic. Coalition talks between the blocs were confirmed on 17 July. The coalition talks collapsed shortly afterwards and Möller announced that she would lead a minority government until the next legislative election.
 
Möller was criticised in August 2021 for endorsing [[Rupert van Bleiswijk]] in the [[2021 Hennish federal election]] but not [[Armela Viram Srimathi]] in the [[2021 Scoverne federal election]] like many other [[Socialist Alternative for Euclea|ASE]] politicians. Möller was accused of having a {{wpl|Racism|racial bias}} against Armela Viram Srimathi by members of the opposition. Shortly afterwards, Bonne Zijlstra endorsed Armela Viram Srimathi "on behalf of the entire Alslandic government".  
 
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Möller was criticised in August 2021 for endorsing [[Rupert van Bleiswijk]] in the [[2021 Hennish federal election]] but not [[Armela Viram Srimathi]] in the [[2021 Scovernois federal election]] like many other [[Socialist Alternative for Euclea|ASE]] politicians. Möller was accused of having a {{wpl|Racism|racial bias}} against Armela Viram Srimathi by members of the opposition. Following the installation of [[Nesby's Second Cabinet]] Möller was the first Euclean Head of Government to congratulate her. After this a leaked memo was sent to members of the cabinet expressly forbidding endorsing candidates in foreign elections.


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In December 2021 Möller announced a goal to make Alsland carbon neutral by 2050. Shortly after this the Folkssenaat introduced a new carbon tax, this was heavily criticised by the opposition. The plan was also criticised by the Greens who said the plan did not go far enough to tackling climate change.


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On 26 January 2022, an opinion poll showed 58% of Alslanders disapproved of Möller's government, this led to instability within the coalition prior to the [[2022 Alslandic legislative election]]. She announced her resignation on 2 February and was reinstalled by the Folkssenaat on 4 February, her resignation was seen as an attempt to unify the coalition against an early election or the opposition being able to field a candidate for Premier. Since her resignation and subsequent reinstallation as Premier her approval rating has risen.


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==Political views and ideology==
==Political views and ideology==
Möller is part of the centrist wing of the Progressive Alliance and was a key ally of other centrist figures as a Senator, ideologically she identifies as a {{wpl|Social Democracy|Social Democrat}} and a {{wpl|Eurofederalism|Euclofederalist}}. In the past she has identified herself as a {{wpl|Third-way politics|professional socialist}}.
Möller self-identifies as a {{wpl|Centrism|centrist}} as well as a {{wpl|Progressivism|progressive}} and a {{wpl|Eurofederalism|Euclofederalist}}. In the past she has identified herself as a {{wpl|Third-way politics|professional socialist}}. In 2022 Möller endorsed lowering the Federal voting age to 16 and legalising recreational marijuana use.


Möller is against non-[[Euclean Community|EC]] immigration to Alsland and the 2020 Progressive Alliance manifesto says it will take steps to reduce non-EC immigration into Alsland "significantly". Despite this Möller claims that [[Kirenia]] which is not an EC member is unaffected by this and is against cutting immigration from Kirenia.  
Möller is against non-[[Euclean Community|EC]] immigration to Alsland and the 2018 Progressive Alliance manifesto says it will take steps to reduce non-EC immigration into Alsland "significantly". Despite this Möller claims that [[Kirenia]] - which is not an EC member - is unaffected by this and is against cutting immigration from Kirenia. She is a supporter of the [[Alsland-Kirenia relations|special relationship]] between Alsland and Kirenia. The 2022 Progressive Alliance manifesto removed their prior immigration policy. The Alliance and Möller now support allowing high-skilled immigration and pledged to support refugees who arrive in Alsland through legal means.
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Möller is married to Niels Möller. Möller is {{wpl|Infertility|Infertile}} and because of this Ottila and Niels have an adopted son. Möller is a non-practicing {{wpl|Protestantism|Amendist}} and has previously said she doubts her religious beliefs often. Despite being eligible to live in the official residence of the Premier, Möller lives at her own home in in Garz and commutes using public transport. Niels Möller is a member of the [[Provinces of Alsland|Garz Assembly]], Niels was a representative from the [[List of political parties in Alsland|Weranian Peoples Party]] but left the party after Ottila became Premier and now sits as an independent in the assembly.
Möller is married to Niels Möller. Möller is a non-practicing [[Solarian Catholic Church|Catholic]] and has previously said she doubts her religious beliefs on ocassion. Despite being eligible to live in the official residence of the Premier, Möller lives at her own home in in Garz and commutes using public transport. Niels Möller is a member of the [[Provinces of Alsland|Garz Assembly]]. She and her husband are both skydiving enthusiasts which has become a regular hobby after Ottila partook in a skydiving event for a charity in 2021.


Möller is fluent in {{wpl|German language|Weranian}}, {{wpl|Frisian language|Dellish}} and {{wpl|French language|Gaullican}}.
Möller is fluent in {{wpl|German language|Weranian}}, {{wpl|Frisian language|Dellish}} and {{wpl|French language|Gaullican}}.
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Ottila Möller
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Premier of Alsland
In office
25 April 2020 – 23 September 2022
PresidentHepke Veltman
DeputyErmnbryht Vrihte
Eltsje Nicolai
Ạlfgar Þraller
Sjearp Groeneveld
Petra Glasser
Preceded byHepke Veltman
Succeeded byVaiko Kotka
Secretary of Finance
In office
12 October 2014 – 25 April 2020
Preceded byRoland Kreutzwald
Succeeded byPetra Glasser
Mayor of Sachsenscheid
In office
25 April 2008 – 12 October 2014
Preceded bySotirian Schoenauer
Succeeded byTorsten Brunner
Personal details
Born
Ottila Schnyder

(1973-02-15) February 15, 1973 (age 51)
Werdau, Alsland
Political partyProgressives (2005–Present)
SpouseNiels Möller
Residence(s)Sachsenscheid am Adezach, Garz
EducationGlauchau University
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Ottila Möller (née Schnyder, born 15 February 1973) is an Alslandic politician and civil servant who has served as Premier of Alsland since April 2020 until September 2022.

Ottila Möller was born on 15 February 1973 in Werdau in Garz, Alsland and was the only child of Per Schnyder who was an MEP from 1989 until his death in 2013 and his wife Tanja Jung. In 1991, she attended Glauchau University and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Public Policy. From 1996 until 2002 she lived and worked in Verlois before returning to Alsland. She became Mayor of Sachsenscheid in 2008. She helped found the Progressive Alliance after it split from the Workers' Party.

In 2014 she became the first female Secretary of Finance in Alsland after being appointed by Liekele Ykema. Möller became the leader of Progressive Holsteen in 2016. After Ykema announced his resignation as Premier in 2018 she was initially the frontrunner to succeed him but ruled herself out and instead backed Hepke Veltman who succeeded Ykema as Premier. Following the 2020 Presidential election which Veltman won Möller became the coalition's agreed candidate for Premier, her government was formed on 25 April 2020. Möller became the first social-democrat to hold the office of Premier in Alsland since Bonne Zijlstra and was the first woman and first member of the Progressive Alliance to hold the position. As Premier she has oversaw the expansion of the Alsrail network, the beginning of the complete phasing out of nuclear energy and the 2021 Yndyk train bombing which was the worst terrorist attack committed in Alsland.

Möller resigned after the fallout of the SYFA spying scandal.

Early life

Möller was born in 1973 and was the youngest child of MEP Per Schnyder (1930-2013) and Tanja Schnyder (1939-2008, née Jung). She attended the Konrad Drachmann Secondary School in Werdau. She graduated in 1991.

She attended Glauchau University and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Public Policy where she graduated in 1995. In 1996 Möller moved to Verlois where she worked for a Gaullican insurance company. In 2002 Möller returned to Alsland and worked as an accountant in Yndyk for several years.

Political career

Mayor of Sachsenscheid

In 2008 Möller became Mayor of Sachsenscheid after she defeated the incumbent Sotirian Schoenauer who had held the position for 20 years. Upon becoming mayor she opposed austerity policies implemented in response to the financial crisis and directed local authorities to increase funding for food banks. She also petitioned the government to grant extra funding to local authorities to handle the financial crisis. In 2013 she and 100 other mayors from Holsteen declared their opposition to Holsaten independence in response to the election of a separatist government in Holsteen.

Secretary of Finance

Ottila Möller at a meeting of EC Finance Ministers in 2016.

After the 2014 legislative election then Secretary of Finance Roland Kreutzwald retired from politics. Shortly after this Progressive Holsteen recommended Möller as his replacement, on 13 October the Folkssenaat confirmed her appointment to the position. She became the first female Secretary of Finance in Alslandic history. In 2016 Möller chaired several meetings of EC finance ministers where she endorsed granting the EC further budgetary powers. In 2018 her budget was voted down by the Folkssenaat shortly before the 2018 election which led to intense media scrutiny on if she would be reappointed to the position following the election. Liekele Ykema was forced to defend Möller's position during a leaders debate prior to the election.

After the election Ykema's coalition partner Civic Initiative refused to enter negotiations with him leading to his resignation shortly afterwards. As a result Möller was named as the most likely candidate to succeed Ykema by Hjoed and ANS. She was proposed as a candidate for Premier by Progressive Alliance and the Humanist Sotirian Union, she ruled herself out as a candidate for Premier and instead recommended Minister-President of Yndyk Hepke Veltman to the coalition at a meeting. Veltman's cabinet was confirmed in December 2018 where Möller retained her position.

In 2019 Veltman announced his intention to run for President of Alsland and resign if he was successful. It was agreed by a meeting of coalition party leaders shortly after this that Möller would succeed him if he was successful. After Veltman narrowly won the election he resigned as Premier and Möller was proposed to the Folkssenaat as his successor. Her government was confirmed by the Folkssenaat on 25 April 2020, the same day Veltman assumed the Presidency.

Premier

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Premiership of Ottila Möller
25 April 2020 – 23 September 2022
PremierOttila Möller
CabinetMöller cabinet
PartyNB-PA-HSU-G-AK
Election2018
AppointerHepke Veltman
SeatYndyk
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After the 2021 Yndyk train bombing Möller announced an inquiry into the attack and the creation of a new anti-terrorism department. The Folkssenaat passed a strict anti-terrorism bill which some critics said increased government surveillance.

Möller was criticised in August 2021 for endorsing Rupert van Bleiswijk in the 2021 Hennish federal election but not Armela Viram Srimathi in the 2021 Scovernois federal election like many other ASE politicians. Möller was accused of having a racial bias against Armela Viram Srimathi by members of the opposition. Following the installation of Nesby's Second Cabinet Möller was the first Euclean Head of Government to congratulate her. After this a leaked memo was sent to members of the cabinet expressly forbidding endorsing candidates in foreign elections.

In December 2021 Möller announced a goal to make Alsland carbon neutral by 2050. Shortly after this the Folkssenaat introduced a new carbon tax, this was heavily criticised by the opposition. The plan was also criticised by the Greens who said the plan did not go far enough to tackling climate change.

On 26 January 2022, an opinion poll showed 58% of Alslanders disapproved of Möller's government, this led to instability within the coalition prior to the 2022 Alslandic legislative election. She announced her resignation on 2 February and was reinstalled by the Folkssenaat on 4 February, her resignation was seen as an attempt to unify the coalition against an early election or the opposition being able to field a candidate for Premier. Since her resignation and subsequent reinstallation as Premier her approval rating has risen.

Political views and ideology

Möller self-identifies as a centrist as well as a progressive and a Euclofederalist. In the past she has identified herself as a professional socialist. In 2022 Möller endorsed lowering the Federal voting age to 16 and legalising recreational marijuana use.

Möller is against non-EC immigration to Alsland and the 2018 Progressive Alliance manifesto says it will take steps to reduce non-EC immigration into Alsland "significantly". Despite this Möller claims that Kirenia - which is not an EC member - is unaffected by this and is against cutting immigration from Kirenia. She is a supporter of the special relationship between Alsland and Kirenia. The 2022 Progressive Alliance manifesto removed their prior immigration policy. The Alliance and Möller now support allowing high-skilled immigration and pledged to support refugees who arrive in Alsland through legal means.

Personal life

Möller is married to Niels Möller. Möller is a non-practicing Catholic and has previously said she doubts her religious beliefs on ocassion. Despite being eligible to live in the official residence of the Premier, Möller lives at her own home in in Garz and commutes using public transport. Niels Möller is a member of the Garz Assembly. She and her husband are both skydiving enthusiasts which has become a regular hobby after Ottila partook in a skydiving event for a charity in 2021.

Möller is fluent in Weranian, Dellish and Gaullican.