Ingrid Djupvik
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| Former Senator of the Lakes | |
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| Tenure began |
6.II.1758 AN (3rd tenure) 1.I.1746 AN (2nd tenure) 1.III.1734 AN (1st tenure) |
| Tenure ended |
22.IV.1758 AN (3rd tenure; 70 days) 24.VII.1751 AN (5 AN years) (2nd tenure) 4.I.1736 AN (2 AN years) (1st tenure) |
| Positions | Secretary of State for External Relations (1740–1746; also 1734–1736) |
| Senate(s) | XIII, XIV, XV |
| Elected | 1733, 1745, 1751 |
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| Physical description | |
| Gender | Female |
| Species | Human |
| Race | Hurmudan/Norse |
| Biographical information | |
| Father | Samuel Klaron Djupvik |
| Mother | Else Kårestad |
| Spouse(s) | Jakob Tuveland |
| Children |
Matilda Erik Alina |
| Date of birth | 1692 AN (aged 69 AN years) |
Ingrid Djupvik, the granddaughter of Patrik Djupvik, is a Hurmu diplomat and noblewoman. She has served as Ambassador of the Order of the Holy Lakes to the Hexarchy (from 1759), the Benacian Union (1751–1753), and the Xäiville Convention (1728–1733). She was Secretary of State for External Relations (1740–1746; also 1734–1736), Minister of Education (1746–1751), and Senator of the Lakes (1733–1736; 1746–1751; and briefly in 1758). She began her diplomatic career as consul in Raspur, Constancia (1719–1728).
She survived the sinking of the Biternion in 1735, but her husband and children died in it. She consequently resigned from the Senate and the secretariat on 4.I.1736. Her seat in the Senate was filled by Mikhail Maksimilianov-Shvinnskiy, Count of Schwinn.
Re-elected to the Senate in the 1745 election for the Ayreonist List, Djupvik subsequently served as Minister of Education. Following the collapse of the Ayreonist List in the 1751 Senate election, she resigned from the ministry with immediate effect. She vowed, however, to remain in the Senate for the remainder of the Fourteenth Senate, citing the confidence placed in her by her voters at the previous election. She was subsequently appointed Hurmu's ambassador to the Benacian Union. Ahead of taking up the position, she was required to attend scheduled interviews with the External Service of the Benacian Union, the Benacian Censorate, the Commission for the Panopticon, and the Magisters-Carnifex. Authorities in Chryse assured Huyenkula that these would be mere formalities intended to ensure her safety and comfort.
All proceeded uneventfully until IV.1753 AN, when a scuffle occurred on the streets of Chryse after her entourage was set upon and bludgeoned by cudgellers and zealots from the Magisters-Carnifex. During the affray, Djupvik was seized and carried away. Days later, a video was distributed through the Benacian Data Network in which she announced that, of her own free will, she had been negotiating her defection to the Union-State during the months following the signing of the Apollonian–Benacian Community. She consequently left the diplomatic service and joined the Coalition for Democratic Humanism. Although expelled from the Ayreonist List, she retained her membership in the Order of the Holy Lakes and, accordingly, her Hurmu nationality.
In 1758, the Senate was expanded through the creation of one additional permanent seat and one additional elected seat. The resulting reapportionment of the elected seats gave the Ayreonist List a sufficient electoral quota to receive representation on the basis of the votes cast in the 1751 election. As Djupvik had headed the Ayreonist List in that election, the Chancellor declared her entitled to the newly apportioned seat, notwithstanding her subsequent expulsion from the list and affiliation with the humanists. She was inaugurated on 6.II.1758 AN and began her third tenure as a Senator of the Lakes.
The Chancellor's decision was challenged by Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó, who had been placed second on the Ayreonist List in 1751. Óma-ó-Täó petitioned the Senate, sitting in its judicial capacity, to declare him rather than Djupvik the duly elected Ayreonist senator. He argued that the electors had voted for representation by a member of the Ayreonist List and that, as Djupvik had been expelled following her defection to the Benacian Union and the humanist movement, she could no longer take a seat apportioned to that list.
The Chancellor recused himself from the proceedings. In his place, Mother of the Senate Jaya Prabhu presided over the Senate in its capacity as the supreme court of the Order. Nikolaj Jovanović-Smičić was appointed advocate for Óma-ó-Täó and was consequently recused from adjudicating the case. Djupvik was likewise recused from the court's deliberations, but represented herself.
The question accepted for determination was whether an elected Senate seat belonged to the electoral list and its voters, so that, where the leading candidate had left that list before the seat was apportioned and before taking office, entitlement to the seat passed to the next eligible candidate on the list. The Senate answered the question in the affirmative. The proposition was carried by twelve votes to ten, with seven senators abstaining or recused. The ruling was therefore carried by a majority of the votes cast, although its twelve supporters constituted only a plurality of the full membership of the Senate and fell short of an absolute majority. The affirmative votes comprised five traditionalists, two conservatives, two Verionists, one draconic humanist, and two independents; all ten votes against the ruling were cast by humanists.
In accordance with the judgment, the Chancellor announced on 22.IV.1758 AN that the Ayreonist seat was to be held by Óma-ó-Täó rather than Djupvik. Óma-ó-Täó was inaugurated later that day, ending Djupvik's third senatorial tenure after seventy days.
In I.1759 AN, the Chancellor restored Djupvik to the diplomatic service. She was subsequently accredited as Ambassador of the Order of the Holy Lakes to the Hexarchy.
