Paula Vokoun

Paula Vokoun (2022)

**Paula Vokoun** (born September 19, 1987 in Matria) is a Saalenian Politician (RP, former GPP). Since 2019 she has been a member of the Congress of the Realm and since 2020 she has been party leader and parliamentary group leader of the Royalist Party.

## Life

Paula Vokoun was born and raised in New Town, the working-class district in western Matria. Her mother was a bank clerk at the municipal bank and her father was a construction worker. She proved to be very talented as a child and it became clear relatively quickly that she would study.

She often reports that her time in New Town was not so happy because the people were too narrow-minded, it was different in the city center and near the university. From 2005 she began studying literature and theater at Princess Helene University.

She completed her studies in 2013 and initially worked as a writer in the theater of Matria, where she made a name for herself with her pornographic and sex-explicit plays. In 2018 she changed her abret in opera of Matria, although she did not stay there long as she would be elected to Parliament a year later.

 File:Paula Vokoun (2019) .jpg   Vokoun lives in Matria and is married. She describes herself as a nudist, which is common in the intelligentsia, and has therefore appeared naked on television, drawing mixed reactions.

## Political career

According to her own statements, Vokoun was already interested in social issues during her school days. She was already very firm in her idea of matriarchy and protested against the Christian prayer house in New Town at the age of 13, which she said she would no longer do. At 15, she got into a fairly sex-positive reading circle, where LGBTQI issues were also discussed.

Therefore, she was particularly pleased that the then young Princess Katarina II took pro-LGBTQ positions. In her upper school, she was involved in party politics, and despite her sympathy for the princess, she refrained from becoming a member of the Princley Party, which was actually close to the princesses. This was too "right-wing, too conservative and too sex-negative" for her. She joined the Green Progressive Party in 2003. It was only when the Princely Party split into the right-wing Old Saalenian Party and the Katarinianist Royalist Party in 2011 that she joined the latter.

From 2013 to 2018 she was a member of the Magistrate of Matria and since 2019 she has been elected to the Congress of the Realm. A year later she was party and faction leader.

## Political positions

Vokoun describes herself as a Katarinianist.

She called Katarina's gender reforms the "greatest advance this principality has ever seen." During her time as a member of parliament, she worked against censorship measures, especially in the areas of youth protection and blsaphemy.

She voted against introducing a minimum wage for men. She voted for the establishment of humanistic high schools. Unlike the Princess, however, she is entirely anti-clerical. She also contradicted the Princess about her opinion on the absolutist party. She said: "While I agree that the absolutists should be watched by appropriate authorities, they are not as dangerous in size and manner as the Hengstinnen."