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'''Niina Hermansdohter''' is an Azmaran politican who currently serves as the High Commissioner of the [[Euclean Community]] and was the Prime Minister of Azmara for a year between 2008 and 2009. Ideologically a {{wpl|social democracy|social democrat}} aligned with the {{wpl|Third Way}} and the {{wpl|Sotirian left}}, she also served as a minister in the second, third and fourth {{wpl|purple (government)|purple}} cabinets between 1996 and 2005. | '''Niina Hermansdohter''' is an Azmaran politican who currently serves as the High Commissioner of the [[Euclean Community]] and was the Prime Minister of Azmara for a year between 2008 and 2009. Ideologically a {{wpl|social democracy|social democrat}} aligned with the {{wpl|Third Way}} and the {{wpl|Christian left|Sotirian left}}, she also served as a minister in the second, third and fourth {{wpl|purple (government)|purple}} cabinets between 1996 and 2005. | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Hermansdohter was born on the 20th February, 1957 in Maancester, Groonbank, Azmara. Her father, Herman Freissun, worked as a fishmonger, while her mother, Ana Godrikssun, had worked at a cotton mill before retiring in 1952 to take care of Hermansdohter's older brother. Her maternal grandfather, Godric Inġesund, was a Buckish farmer and poet, having fled to the border town of Maancester in the late 1920's to escape the Gaullican invasion of Estmere in the [[Great War (Kylaris)]], later naturalising as a citizen after Azmara's withdrawal from the Entente. | Hermansdohter was born on the 20th February, 1957 in Maancester, Groonbank, Azmara. Her father, Herman Freissun, worked as a fishmonger, while her mother, Ana Godrikssun, had worked at a cotton mill before retiring in 1952 to take care of Hermansdohter's older brother. Her maternal grandfather, Godric Inġesund, was a Buckish farmer and poet, having fled to the border town of Maancester in the late 1920's to escape the Gaullican invasion of Estmere in the [[Great War (Kylaris)]], later naturalising as a citizen after Azmara's withdrawal from the Entente. | ||
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Niina Hermansdohter | |
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| High Commissioner of the Euclean Community | |
| Assumed office 24 June 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Rasa Šalaševičiūtė |
| Member of the Euclean Parliament | |
| In office 24 June 2009 – 24 June 2019 | |
| Constituency | Azmara |
| Prime Minister of Azmara | |
| In office 19 March 2008 – 29 April 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Stefan Aansgaarssun |
| Succeeded by | Frei Alekssun |
| Minister for Healthcare | |
| In office 27 November 2001 – 16 March 2005 | |
| Minister for Transport | |
| In office 20 March 1996 – 27 November 2001 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Niina Hermansdohter 20 February 1957 Maancester, Azmara |
| Political party | Workers' SAE |
| Other political affiliations | Third Republic (1975-1977) |
| Spouse | Aodhan Mac Pharláin |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Aalmsted |
Niina Hermansdohter is an Azmaran politican who currently serves as the High Commissioner of the Euclean Community and was the Prime Minister of Azmara for a year between 2008 and 2009. Ideologically a social democrat aligned with the Third Way and the Sotirian left, she also served as a minister in the second, third and fourth purple cabinets between 1996 and 2005.
Early life
Hermansdohter was born on the 20th February, 1957 in Maancester, Groonbank, Azmara. Her father, Herman Freissun, worked as a fishmonger, while her mother, Ana Godrikssun, had worked at a cotton mill before retiring in 1952 to take care of Hermansdohter's older brother. Her maternal grandfather, Godric Inġesund, was a Buckish farmer and poet, having fled to the border town of Maancester in the late 1920's to escape the Gaullican invasion of Estmere in the Great War (Kylaris), later naturalising as a citizen after Azmara's withdrawal from the Entente.
Hermansdohter attended the West-Maancester Ândeskul for primary education, graduating the ÂSWP in 1971 and enrolling in the Maancester Gymnasium the same year. However, in 1972 when Hermansdohter was 15, her father's suicide after struggling with chronic depression left the family in a very precarious economic situation as their primary source of income had been wiped out and the family had to enrol in unemployment benefits for a few months before her mother could find new work at a laundrette.
This experience is one that Hermansdohter cites with inspiring her interest in politics, saying that while she had studied it at Gymnasium, this awakened her to "the effect that political decisions have on ordinary people's lives", and that seeing the inequality between her and middle-class peers at her Gymnasium "radicalised her".
She managed to graduate from secondary education with high grades in 1975, and was successful at applying for a place on the University of Aalmsted's Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree later that year. Hermansdohter has described her university-age self as a "raving socialist", noting her involvement in the Aalmsted-based vanguard communist Third Republic party during the first few years of her studies and her participation in numerous protests and demonstrations for left-wing domestic and international causes, yet says that under the influence of her demand-side and pragmatic economics and politics professors, she moderated towards positions more mainstream in the Azmaran left.