Hoàng Lan Mai

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Premier
Hoàng Lan Mai
皇蘭梅
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Mai in 2021
Premier of Nainan
Assumed office
7 January 2016
Preceded byCao Long Phong
General Secretary of the Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity
Assumed office
11 January 2015
Preceded byTrầm Bá Cường
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
4 July 2014 – 11 January 2015
Preceded byVĩnh Quang Đông
Succeeded byTrần Hữu Thống
Assemblywoman of Ảnh Lửa Province
In office
30 October 2000 – 11 January 2015
Preceded byKha Trọng Kiên
Succeeded byDoãn Như Hoa
Provincial Premier of Ảnh Lửa Province
In office
20 October 1986 – 30 October 2000
Preceded byĐặng Phụng Việt
Succeeded byVõ Tuyết Mai
Personal details
Born12 October 1956 (Age 66)
Canhdong, Nainan
Political partyNainan People's Solidarity and Longevity
SpouseNguyễn Gia Huy (m. 1990)
Children2
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RelativesHoàng Lan Trúc (older brother)
Alma materNational University of Canhdong
This is a Nainese name; the family name is Hoàng (皇).

Hoàng Lan Mai (Nainese: 皇蘭梅; Born 12 October 1956), is a Nainese politician and stateswoman who has is currently serving as the Premier of Nainan. She is the youngest child of the founder of the Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity and creator of the Harmonious Republic of Nainan, Hoàng Viện Trai. She served in numerous positions in government for nearly 30 years, from 1986 to 2000 she was the Provincial Premier of the Ảnh Lửa Province. From 2015 to 2015 she served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 2015 to now she sits as the General Secretary of the NPSL. In 2016 she became the first female Premier of Nainan.

Early life

Photo of young Mai at her father's summer home, late 1960s

Born Hoàng Lan Mai on October 12th, 1956 to Hoàng Viện Trai and his wife Diệp Nhã Cam in Canhdong. She was born the same year her father during the first year of the Nainese Civil War and was initially very distant from her father, who was focused on the progress of the war. She lived much of her early childhood with her mother and her older brother Trúc.

She excelled in school, and by the end of the war became a member of her father's political outreach group for the NPSL alongside her brother. Her father is quoted in being "proud" of his children's political activism.

She became a political leader for NPSL student outreach groups and became a member of the Young Partisans of Nainan when it was founded in 1966. She attented the National University of Canhdong and became the leader of the NPSL there. By the age of 22 she became the leader of the NPSL's Canhdong branch. She became a political symbol for the nation by her father. At a speech in 1970 she said "Me and my brother and all of the younger generations of Nainan are the future of this nation, we will grow into the political leaders. Tự Ý Chí is our path, we will follow it into greatness." After her father's assassination she moved away from politics slightly. She would continue to work with the NPSL, especially with the YPN for the next decade.

Career

Provincial Premier of Ảnh Lửa Province

In 1986 Mai became the Provincial Premier of Ảnh Lửa Province and would be the leader of the NPSL in the region. Her brother Trúc had become the Chief of the Canhdong City Council the previous year and NPSL leader within the city. Together they worked as lead the NPSL in the northern regions of the country.

She and her brother would create the National Rally Center for the YPN in Canhdong, where the YPN held rallies and events for the youth. She would be considered one of the most important Provincial Premiers in the country. She was considered for cabinet rules multiple times during the 1990s, but leadership feared the possibility of more political families rising, which they considered to be a form of corruption.

Senator of Ảnh Lửa Province

She eventually would become a Assemblywoman for the Ảnh Lửa Province in the People's Assembly of Nainan where she would work as a leading member of the originalist faction of the NPSL. She sought to continue the ideals of her father and wanted to keep Nainan from straying away from his policies. She created a group in the People's Assembly known as the Great Resolve Bloc, which was made up of her brother and others who sought to preserve her father's vision for the country, and his ideology of Tự Ý Chí. She called for heavily isolating the country, even slightly from allies like Shangea in order to achieve Independence, a crucial part of Tự Ý Chí.

During the political realignment of the party in the late 2000s her faction became much smaller in the People's Assembly, as the National Front, a faction that advocated for reformism in Nainan, began to take power. She would greatly be angered by this, she and three allies, her brother, Cao Long Phong, and Văn Anh Khải, would form a group known as the Hoangists, who would be the leadership for the Bloc moving on.

During Shangea's Operation Eastern Protection she spearheaded Nainan's recognition of Heijiang. In 2015 Văn Anh Khải was made the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he would recommend Mai for Deputy Minister, and she was appointed and approved to the position.

Deputy Foreign Minister

As Deputy Foreign Minister she and Khải would be diplomatic leaders for Nainan, and began to further establish a relationship with the government of Zorasan. When State Director Văn Giang Nam would attempt to join ROSPO, she and Khải would stop the move critically in the People's Senate. Mai stated that ROSPO would push Nainan into being involved in foreign disputes that it shouldn't be involved in, and says it harms her father's ideal of Independence for Nainan.

Mai with Pan Jiayong during a visit to Heijiang in 2014

She would visit Shangea, Heijiang, Siamat, Chistovodia, and others during her time as Deputy Foreign Minister. She was critical in establishing a supply line for the state of Heijiang in 2014, which Nainan became one of the country's major military and civilian suppliers.

In 2015 she began what was called Nainese De-Escalation with the BSC. Which she called for cooling down hostilities with Brown Sea Community nations such as Lavana and South Kabu especially, this however did not end well, with the government of Văn Giang Nam pushing against it. She supported the push for Normalisation in Shangea and advocated for similar crackdowns in Nainan.

In 2015 she would announce her plans to become the next General Secretary of the NPSL and would narrowly win the vote within the party, the first time a narrow vote would ever occur for NPSL General Secretary.

NPSL General Secretary and Premiership

Mai at a NPSL event in Rangcai, 2016

She became the first female General Secretary for the NPSL in 2015. Mai would set a policy for the NPSL to follow that would strictly adhere to Tự Ý Chí, however the government of new State Director Lê Tranh Lộc would diverge on a different course of policy. She would push for Cao Long Phong to become Premier in order to balance power between the reformist and hardliners, Lê would agree.

Eventually in 2016 the Van Dieu, who are considered closely aligned with the hardliners, arrested Lê and forced him to resign. Cao An Tương would take over as State Director and Mai became Premier of Nainan, as well as being General Secretary.

She would greatly increase military influence within the NPSL, and pushed policy to further blur the lines between the military and the party. The first was the passing of a bill to make military high command make oaths to Tự Ý Chí and the NPSL, but not become members.

In 2021 she would begin to push for policy against Sotirian members of the NPSL, and eventually push them out of the party entirely. She would require religious backgrounds be made known by party members, followed by sexuality and ethnicity. The reformists criticised these moves but did little to get rid of them.

She was greatly critical of the government's involvement in the 2022 Hacyinia-Lavana war in support of Hacyinia, stating that it further pushes Nainan towards falling under influence of Zorasan. Later that year Cao Long Phong proposed to ban political factionalism.

She became the first female Premier of Nainan and after the hardliners took power, they banned factionalism within the NPSL entirely and arrested many reformists. Later after this the Van Dieu would arrest many who they claimed were traitors to the party. Her Premiership is marked with the beginning of a more authoritarian government in Nainan.

Controversies

Anti-Hoàng protester during a visit to Kintao, 2020

Denial of father's war crimes

Totalitarianism

Personal life

Mai's brother, Trúc