Annika Raudsepp
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| Former Prime Minister of Hurmu | |
|---|---|
| Began | 8.III.1719 AN |
| Ended | 15.III.1720 AN |
| Predecessor | Jamshid-e Osman |
| Successor | Ghawetkiin Enkhjargal (as acting prime minister)) |
| Cabinet | Raudsepp |
| Party |
All-Union Communist Party of Cerulea (1720– ) Social and Democratic Party of Hurmu (1704– ) Social Democratic Party of the Lake District (1690–1704) Social Democrats (1677–1690) |
| Physical description | |
| Gender | Female |
| Species | Human |
| Race | Lakkvian |
| Biographical information | |
| Father | Kristian Raudsepp |
| Mother | Mariina née Rüütel |
| Date of birth | 1659 AN (aged 79 AN years) |
| Place of birth | Vesüha, Lakkvia (Craitland) |
Annika Raudsepp is a Hurmu–Lakkvian and naturalized Cerulean politician who served as the Prime Minister of Hurmu from 1719 until being deposed at the end of the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict. She was also the leader of the Social and Democratic Party of Hurmu (since 1717), Member of the Lakkvian legislature (1686–1690), and of the Assembly of Representatives (since 1708–1720), and Minister of Labour (1713–1717). In 1720, following the socialist defeat in the Hurmu civil conflict, she escaped to Cerulea where she was immediately naturalized and granted membership in the All-Union Communist Party of Cerulea. Between 1721 and 1724, she is the chairwoman of the government of the Livlandic Autonomous People's Republic in Cerulea. In 1726, she was found guilty of treason, treachery, sedition and waging an illegal war against the Order of the Holy Lakes (see the court case), and was sentenced to lifetime incarceration on Samhold Island, where she since resides.
Background and upbringing
Annika's parents were avid supporters of Lakkvia's subjugation to Craitland, naming their daughter Annika after Queen Anika, consort to of King Craitman IV.
Political career
She joined the Social Democrats upon starting university (studying to be a teacher), and quickly became active in student politics at the University of Vesüha. Following graduation in 1680, she worked as a high school social studies teacher until 1686, when she did politics full-time, when she was elected as one of three Social Democrats to the Lakkvian legislature. She campaigned for integration with Hurmu in the referendum of 1689. In next year's Hurmu elections, the Social Democrats, now rebranded as the Social Democratic Party of the Lake District (following their divorce from the Craitish mother party) failed to achieve representation in the Assembly of Representatives, and Raudsepp returned to teaching.
In 1691, she was elected to the board of the party, and began work to rebrand and rework the party for the new Hurmu, making the party less a Lakkvian party and more of a Hurmu party. She led conversations with the Social Democratic Party of Lontinien, with which her party formed a close alliance and partnership. In the next elections, of 1695, the Social Democrats still failed to achieve representation in the Assembly for the Lake District, but the sister party in Lontinien made headway. Frustrated, the same occurred in 1701, and by now, something radical needed to occur for the party to make progress in the Lake District.
In the party congress of 1702, she was elected leader of the Social Democrats of the Lake District on a platform to create a pan-Hurmu social democratic alternative. Negotiations with the other social democratic parties (now supplemented also by the ones in Transprinitica and Rekozemlje) bore fruit, and in 1704, the Social and Democratic Party of Hurmu was formed, with the charismatic Rashid Hasanzadeh as leader and Raudsepp as deputy leader. In 1707, she was elected to the Assembly of Representatives, and elected again in 1712. She was part of the negotiation teams that led to the formation of the cabinet of Patrik Djupvik. In that cabinet, she was Minister of Labour from 1713 to 1716 when she, along with her party, resigned en masse from the cabinet during the 1716–1717 Hurmu political crisis. Thereafter, in 1717, Hasanzadeh resigned, after internal pressure from the party grassroots, and was replaced by Raudsepp, who, in 1718, brought the party to a landslide victory. In 1719, she was nominated by the Assembly and confirmed by the Senate to the position of Prime Minister of Hurmu. She announced her cabinet on 8.III.1719.
Her government in Hurmu was short and marred with conflict with the Senate. While she herself had appeared more pragmatic and willing to cooperate with the Senate, her coalition government was with the hardliner Hizb ul-ʿUmrāti ul-Hurmu and the Communist Workers' Party. These minor parties had red lines against any kind of cooperation with the Senate, as the government programme was introduced to abolish the Senate and disestablish the Order of the Holy Lakes. While the Senate continued to seek cooperation and compromise with Raudsepp, the conflict between the government and the Senate led to what some commentators describe as a civil war.
At the very end of the civil conflict, Raudsepp was almost killed, but managed to escape with several others of her colleagues. However, among the escapees, only three (of which Raudsepp was one) managed to arrive safely in Cerulea, whose communist government granted the socialist and communist exiles from Hurmu citizenship out of solidarity with their failed revolution. Raudsepp took the offer of citizenship and refuge on, and immediately became a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Cerulea, and becoming active in the politics of the newly formed state.
She has since become the chairwoman of the regional government of Livland.
Arrest and extradition
Hurmu authorities want her for investigations relating to the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict. On 16.I.1724, she was arrested by Cerulean authorities, and on 2.II.1720 handed over to Hurmu authorities via Normark, following an intensive period of interrogation. The Senate found her guilty on 8.IV.1726 on all counts (treason, treachery, sedition, and waging an illegal war). Months later (11.XV.1726), the Senate finally sentenced her to a lifetime of incarceration on Samhold Island without opportunity for rehabilitation or parole, a sentence that was controversial among some Senators and in the media of Hurmu.
Personal life
She is unmarried, and has no partner. Enjoys reading crime novels. Vegetarian since her teens. Speaks Lakkvian, Craitish and Istvanistani. Has tried to study Hurmu Norse, Lontinian and Krasnocorian without success. Now studying Cerulean.
| Preceded by: Jamshid-e Osman |
Prime Minister of Hurmu 1719–1720 |
Succeeded by Ghawetkiin Enkhjargal as acting prime minister |
| Preceded by: Vadim Čifutović |
Minister of Labour (Hurmu) 1713–1716 |
Succeeded by Ezabel Kaaq |
