Marianne de Lotbinière

Monseigneur Marianne de Lotbinière AOA MAN MCE
37th Prime Minister of Ainin
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2015
President	Cao Nima
Preceded by	Jean de Finistère (acting) Caroline Évaline
Secretary of State for Labour and Industrial Relations
In office 7 May 2011 – 1 April 2014
Prime Minister	Claude Arceneaux
Deputy for Doval's 1st district
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2010
29th Premier of Linaque
In office 23 February 2005 – 16 May 2010
Preceded by	Alexandir Raveatulu
Succeeded by	Clément Beaudoin
Linaque Minister of Labour
In office 13 August 1997 – 5 December 2001
Premier	Charles Joguet
Member of the Linaque Assembly for Doval–Citadelle
In office 13 August 1993 – 16 May 2010
Personal details
Born	(1963-04-25) 25 April 1963 Wéppy, Oelia
Nationality	Aininian
Political party	Social Democratic
Spouse	Henri de Lotbinière
Alma mater	University of Talon
Profession	Trade union organiser

Marianne Jean Thériault de Lotbinière AOA MAN MCE (born 25 April 1961, née Marianne Jean Thériault) is an Aininian trade unionist, politician and the 37th and current Prime Minister of Ainin. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has headed a grand coalition between the SDP and Citizens' Alliance since 17 June 2015 after winning a plurality of seats in the 2015 election. She is the first Aininian Prime Minister to be born overseas, having been born in Oelia.

With her father serving as Vice-President of the National Federation of Civil Servants (FNFP), Lotbinière was involved in trade union politics from a young age. After returning to Ainin, she lived in Marlane-la-Prairie, Montagnes and attended the prestigious Auxpuis Academy. She later studied industrial relations at the University of Talon and was elected in 1987 as secretary of the Doval section of the FNFP, where she was first acquainted with then-General Secretary Charles Joguet of the Linaque FNFP. Becoming Joguet's protégée, she was nominated and elected as a member of the Linaque Assembly for Doval in 1993, serving as Deputy Minister and then Minister of Labour in Joguet's government. After the SDP's defeat in 2001, she was elected as party leader by a popular leadership contest despite being opposed by the majority of the party's elected officials. In 2005, she defeated the one-term Alexandir Raveatulu Democratic government and led the SDP back to power.

During her premiership, Linaque implemented a landmark participatory management plan for labour relations and pushed for an expansion of vocational education. Her term was also marked by several controversies, including the hydroelectric development of the Linaque River, the creation of the Talon Outer Ring road system and the Presqu'vent Affair relating to corruption in the construction of the Electric Network's Presqu'vent Line. Less than a year after winning re-election in 2009 with a minority government, she resigned to run for the National Assembly in the 2010 election and was succeeded as premier and SDP leader by Clément Beaudoin. Under Prime Minister Claude Arceneaux, she was named Secretary of State for Labour and Industrial Relations in 2011 and served until the government's defeat in 2014.

Winning the SDP leadership on the fourth ballot, she became Leader of the Opposition and led efforts to withdraw confidence from Caroline Évaline's government during the West Aininian crisis, culminating in the 2015 snap election in which her party made modest gains to win a plurality. In subsequent negotiations, she entered a grand coalition with Maxime Bélanger's Citizens' Alliance to become Prime Minister. Her premiership, which began on 17 June 2015, has been marked by the ambitious Grand Project social program, greater integration with the Esquarian Community through a major reform to the Esquarian Common Market, and a controversial military intervention in Mazaristan.

Honours

• Ainin: Adjutant of the Order of Ainin (2010)
• Ainin: Medal of the National Assembly, 1st grade (ex officio, 2015)
• Aucuria: Officer's Cross of the Order of King Viltautas the Great (2017)

Electoral record

National

  Aininian general election, 2015: Doval's 1st district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	44,935	41.25	5.68
	Citizens' Alliance	Colin Suchet	30,296	27.81	27.81
	Communist Party	Marc Boisselot	19,179	17.61	6.00
	Rally of the Democrats	Fabien Blaise	7,825	7.18	25.20
	National Alliance	Joël Astier	4,609	4.23	1.28
	Green Party	Joseph Chausson	1,053	0.97	3.26
	Esquarian Community Reform	Grégoire Demers-Poitier	502	0.46	0.62
	M.D.R.	Silvain Lecocq	195	0.18	0.18
Invalid/blank			335	0.31	N/A
Total			108,929	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		13.44

  Aininian general election, 2014: Doval's 1st district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	39,354	35.57	4.94
	Rally of the Democrats	Xavier Rossignol	35,832	32.38	5.41
	Communist Party	Marc Boisselot	26,120	23.61	0.59
	Green Party	Dominique Loupe	4,684	4.23	1.71
	National Alliance	Joël Astier	3,269	2.95	1.47
	Esquarian Community Reform	Grégoire Demers-Poitier	1,199	1.08	0.37
Invalid/blank			186	0.17	N/A
Total			110,644	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		3.19

  Aininian general election, 2010: Doval's 1st district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	47,318	40.51	10.41
	Rally of the Democrats	Xavier Rossignol	31,504	26.97	3.64
	Communist Party	Coralie Vasseur	28,267	24.20	6.23
	Green Party	Anne-Marie Beaumont	6,936	5.94	1.63
	National Alliance	Christine Martin	1,733	1.48	1.48
	Esquarian Community Reform	Grégoire Demers-Poitier	829	0.71	0.69
Invalid/blank			214	0.18	N/A
Total			116,801	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		13.54

Provincial

  Linaque general election, 2009: Doval–Citadelle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	39,606	49.37	13.12
	Communist Party	Luc Cartier	29,562	36.85	26.59
	Rally of the Democrats	Colin Suchet	7,210	8.99	15.93
	Green Party	Maude Périer	3,522	4.39	2.06
	Independent	Grégoire Demers-Poitier	320	3.98	0.40
Invalid/blank			69	0.08	N/A
Total			80,220	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		12.52

  Linaque general election, 2005: Doval–Citadelle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	56,439	62.49	7.49
	Rally of the Democrats	Colin Suchet	22,503	24.92	3.58
	Communist Party	Guy Beaufils	9,263	10.26	10.40
	Green Party	Maude Périer	2,106	2.33	0.57
Invalid/blank			109	0.10	N/A
Total			90,311	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		37.57

  Linaque general election, 2001: Doval–Citadelle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	47,920	55.00	2.71
	Rally of the Democrats	Marine Dubost	18,592	21.34	5.24
	Communist Party	Guy Beaufils	18,002	20.66	6.12
	Green Party	Benoit Auvray	2,527	2.90	2.90
Invalid/blank			90	0.10	N/A
Total			86,561	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		33.66

  Linaque general election, 1997: Doval–Citadelle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	51,370	57.71	16.01
	Rally of the Democrats	Alexis Gérald	23,643	26.58	6.24
	Communist Party	Guy Beaufils	12,942	14.54	14.54
	Liberal Party	Stéphane Bourseiller	928	1.04	5.98
Invalid/blank			143	0.16	N/A
Total			89,026	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		31.23

  Linaque general election, 1993: Doval–Citadelle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Social Democratic Party	Marianne de Lotbinière	61,325	73.70	3.95
	Rally of the Democrats	Alexis Gérald	16,038	20.34	5.73
	Liberal Party	Lisette Dubost	5,848	7.02	10.13
Invalid/blank			114	0.14	N/A
Total			83,211	100	N/A
	Social Democratic hold		Majority		53.36