Anna Kinnamina

Anna Kinnamos
Leader of the Imbrosian Voters Union
In office 4 May 2016 – 15 February 2018
Chairman	Isaakios Kinnamos Leon Dalassenos
Preceded by	Isaakios Kinnamos
Succeeded by	Leon Dalassenos
Progressive Party Spokesperson for Housing and Local Government
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 June 2018
Leader	Flavia Lepera
Shadowing	John Daedalus
Preceded by	G. Balventius Sura
Senator for Chalcis
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 March 2014
Preceded by	Isaakios Kinnamos
Majority	7,399 (10%)
Personal details
Born	Anna Kinnamos Maria Eudocia (1990-05-19) 19 May 1990 Martis, Castellum ab Alba, Latium
Citizenship	Latin
Political party	Progressive
Other political affiliations	Imbrosian Voters (pre-2018)
Relations	Isaakios Kinnamos (father) Constantine Anistius, 17th Duke of Lugdunum (uncle)
Alma mater	Galata College, Haenna

Anna Kinnamos (Anna Kinnamos Maria Eudocia; b. 19 May 1990) is a Latin politician of Imbrosian descent and sitting Senator for Chalcis.

Kinnamos was the leader of Together for Imbros from 2016 until 2018, succeeding her father, Isaakios Kinnamos. Kinnamos lost a leadership election in 2018, and joined the Progressive Party. She has served as Progressive Party Spokesperson for Housing and Local Government since joining. She was first elected to public office after her victorious election to Senate in the 2014 election for the Chalcis constituency. She was the youngest sitting senator from 2014 to 2017.

Family and education

Anna Kinnamos was born in May 1990 at the Sancta Maria Hospital in the Martis district of Castellum to then Senator Isasskios Kinnamos and Lady Andrea Anistia. She has one older brother, Maurice. Her uncle is Constantine Anistius, 17th Duke of Lugdunum. Through her mother, she is a distant relative of the Imperial House of Claudius, and many other Latin noble families. Her parents met during her father's tenure as Mayor of Olipsio She has three siblings, an older brother Maurice from her mother's marriage to Kinnamos and two older sisters, Paulina and Silvia, from her mother's previous marriage to Thomas Poppaeus, 10th Viscount of Turonum.

Her father previously served in the Senate from 1986 until his retirement in 2010, previously serving as Count of the Imperial Treasury from 2008 to 2010. He was granted a life peerage by the Emperor upon his retirement.

Education

Kinnamos split time in her early educational years between Castellum and her family's home in Olipsio, though she began her schooling by attending St. Cyril Academy in Olipsio. She later attended secondary school through the St. Michael Preparatory private school system in metropolitan Castellum. After finishing secondary school, she enrolled in Galata College, Haenna where she studied Classical History and Ancient Hellenic. While attending university, she became a member of the Young Progressives, the main student organization of the Progressive Party.

During one of her first interviews after joining the Senate in 2014, she stated that her decision to join a youth political movement came down to either the Progressives or Together for Imbros party, which her father was the leader of at the time. Kinnamos held a number of significant internships during her tim at Alexandroupoli. Between her first and second years she worked as a student intern in then Consul Constantine Otacilius's office; between her second and third years, as a researching intern at the MYI headquarters in Olipsio; and between her third and forth years she worked as campaign manager for a local city council election in Olipsio. Following her graduation, she began working as a researcher for Future Imbros, an ethnic Imbrosian think tank.

Political Career

Kinnamos had decided to stand for election to the Senate for the 2014 general election in her father's former constituency of Chalcis. Prior to the election, the seat was held by Konstantinos Iasites of the Conservative Party, who had won the open seat in the previous general election after two recounts. After quickly earning the right to stand for the Together for Imbros, Kinnamos began campaigning in the local Olipsio constituency. On election day, Kinnamos won 48% of the constituencies popular vote and was announced the victor of the election. She was re-elected in 2017.

Party leadership

In April 2016, Kinnamos's father and sitting leader, Isaakios Kinnamos passed away hours after speaking at a rally for devolution in Aigio. After two weeks of mourning, MYI party officials announced a leadership election. Kinnamos was the first to declare her candidacy, and was elected leader in May after running unopposed.

Kinnamos after joining the Progressive Party in February 2018.

Kinnamos continued many of her father's policies, including calls for more powers to local governments and devolved sub-national governments. Kinnamos used the 2017 general election as a platform for pushing the issue of devolution and federalism. Kinnamos led MYI to win 4 seats, 1 less than the previous election, though continued the push for stronger local government through a series of post-campaign rallies and the announcement of Party of the Regions electoral alliance. The rallies eventually prompted debate in the Senate, and comments from Emperor Constantine XX, and two referendums focused on Imbrosian and Gelonian devolution. While Kinnamos was critical of both bills as not going far enough, she was a key figure in the Yes campaign. The Imbros referendum failed.

By 2018, rumors began to surface that Kinnamos lost the confidence of a majority of MYI senators and party administration. Leon Dalassenos announced that he felt the rumors necessitated a leadership election, and eventually Kinnamos agreed to begin plans for a leadership election. The 2018 leadership election saw Kinnamos face off against Dalassenos, and ultimately lose after only receiving 42% of the vote. The following day, she announced that she was leaving Together for Imbros and joined the Progressive Party.

Progressive Party

After joining the Progressive Party, party leader Flavia Lepera appointed Kinnamos as Progressive Party Spokesperson for Housing and Local Government, shadowing John Daedalus of United Latium.

Personal Life

Due to her familial relations, Kinnamos is noted to have attended numerous balls and other royal or noble events. She maintains a close friendship with Lady Constantia Volumnia; Leo Anistius, Count of Chalcis and her other cousins, who are children of The Duke of i; and even The Lady Uria. She has previously been romantically linked to Prince Leo of Ghant, even traveling as his guest to the wedding of Nathan IV of Ghant and Sophia of Dakmoor in February 2014.

Ancestry

Family of Anna Kinnamina

4. Maurice Kinnamos 2. Isaakios Kinnamos 5. Anna 1. Anna Kinnamos 24. Andreas Antistius, 14th Duke of Lugdunum 12. Andronicus Antistius, 15th Duke of Lugdunum 25. Maria Tullia 6. Peter Antistius, 16th Duke of Lugdunum 26. Nikeforos Metochites, 15th Lord of Causennae 13. Theofana Metochites 27. Eudocia Abgralla 3. Andrea Antistia 28. Peter Iasitus, 5th Count of Olite 14. Simeon Iasitus 29. Maria Doukas 7. Demetria Iasita 30. Manuel Volumnius, 18th Count of Antiochia 15. Helene Lucceia 31. Theodora Acropolites