Freidrik Aleksaanderssun

Freidrik Aleksaanderssun
Aleksaanderssun in 2017
Thingspeaker of Azmara
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2023
Deputy	Henrik Jorśsun
Preceded by	Sofija Anasdohter
Leader of Gold Flame
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 August 2018
Deputy	Kaþeriina Karlsdohter
Preceded by	Sofija Freidriksdohter
Member of the Folksmot
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 June 2008
Constituency	Groonbank
Secretary of State of Business and Innovation
In office 1 February 2014 – 30 April 2017
Preceded by	Alan Jonssun
Succeeded by	Niina Aansgaarsdohter
Personal details
Born	(1969-12-29) December 29, 1969 Westhaltuun, Groonbank
Political party	Gold Flame
Spouse	Lilijan Alansdohter (m. 1997)
Children	3
Education	Westhaltuun-Nord Gymnasium
Alma mater	Aalmsted Law School, University of Aalmsted

Freidrik Aleksaanderssun is an Azmaran politician who has served as the Thingspeaker of Azmara since 2023 and as leader of the Gold Flame political party since 2018. A lawyer by training, he has been a Member of the Folksmot for Groonbank since 2008 and formerly served as Secretary of State for Business and Innovation between 2014 and 2017 in the government of Sofija Freidriksdohter.

Early life

Aleksaanderssun was born on the 29th December, 1969 at Westhaaltun Hospital. His father, Aleksaander Henrikssun, was a lawyer who formerly served as a Justice on the Commonwealth Financial Court, one of Azmara's four supreme courts, while his mother was a teacher and city councillor in Groonbank.

He studied at Ost-Westhaltuun Gymnasium before enrolling at Aalmsted Law School, graduating with a Lagensliisens in Azmaran Law in 1991 and a master's degree in 1993. Aleksaanderssun described himself as a "largely apolitical" student, but described himself as a "consistent" Gold Flame voter in elections of his youth.

Career

Early career

Aleksaanderssun would serve as a legal assistant for two years after graduating, before fully qualifying as a lawyer in 1995. Aleksaanderssun would specialise in competition and business law, stating that working in cases in these fields would spark an "interest" in the political decisions behind them.

Thingspeaker of Azmara

The 2023 election led to a stalemate between Anasdohter's governing coalition and Aleksaanderssun and Henrik Jorśsun's centre-right opposition bloc. After the failure of Anasdohter and Jorśsun to negotiate a grand coalition between their parties, Aleksaanderssun and Jorśsun would begin negotiations with Radical leader Ana Freidriksdohter and Green leader Liis Jonsdohter, both of whom had served in coalition with Anasdohter.

Political views

Aleksaanderssun has been widely considered to support economically and culturally liberal policies, with his leadership being seen as further to the economic right than the Freidriksdohter leadership while continuing to reject the "national liberalism" of Jon Jorśsun's government in which the party embraced conservative stances on immigration and law and order.

As a supporter of economic liberalism, Aleksaanderssun has supported a pro-business agenda, advocating for significant deregulation to foster a "competitive spirit" in Azmara by making it easier both to set up a business and to hire and fire businesses, arguing that Azmara's employment protection legislation "chokes" the private sector and "gatekeeps" new workers from entering the labour force and supporting tax breaks and subsidies to develop "high tech" industry in the way Freidriksdohter's government developed the information technology sector. The party under his leadership has also voted against attempts by the Eryk Jorśsun and Sofija Anasdohter governments to increase state control over the transport, energy and communications sectors.

Aleksaanderssun has declared his support for the welfare state, yet has argued that it must be "fit for purpose" and that "freedom of choice" must be maximised within the welfare systems. As such, Aleksaanderssun has argued for less "red tape" in Azmara's universal healthcare system by allowing hospitals within it "more autonomy" over their own actions and easing the restrictions on participation of for-profit hospitals. He has also supported reforms to decentralise control over the curriculum to individual schools and allow schools to specialise while also allowing the formation of "free schools" under tight regulation to give students and parents more choice. Furthermore, he has proposed raising the retirement age from 62 to 65 and allowing employees to choose to invest a portion of their pension contributions in private plans.

Aleksaanderssun also advocates for a culturally liberal outlook, having consistently voted in favour of LGBTQ rights and supporting multiculturalism, immigration and Euclean integration. While supporting the Anasdohter government's legalisation of marijuana, Gold Flame under Aleksaanderssun's leadership opposed the creation of a government monopoly in the sector and supports allowing private sale of the drug. The party has also shown increased concern over climate change, supporting a "bright green" agenda of encouraging technological and market-based solutions to the issue, yet Aleksaanderssun was criticised in 2020 for stating that the construction of the Tuaisceart-Süd II pipeline was a "matter for Werania and Caldia" that Azmara should not intervene in.

Personal life

While studying at the University of Aalmsted, Aleksaanderssun met economist Lilijan Alansdohter and the couple would marry in 1997. The couple have three adult children - Alan and Sofija, born in 1999, and Leif, born 2001, and reside in a five-bedroom house in Westhaltuun.

Aleksaanderssun identified himself as agnostic in a 2019 interview and described his interests as writing, reading and folk music. In 2013 Aleksaanderssun self-published the novella In Stefansburg, inspired by his experiences as a Member of the Folksmot.