Jacinda Ardern (Anglosphere)

## Jacinda Ardern

Ardern in 2027.

**Jacinda Gayford (nee Ardern)** is an Anglophone politician who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of the United States from 2030 to 2038. She is regarded by many to be one of the greatest politicians of all time, helping to consolidate the early Anglosphere and pushing for female rights in the Anglosphere. Her time in office has often been described as "The Red Wave".

## Biography

Born in Auckland, Ardern was elected as the Leader of the Opposition in 2017 and became the Prime Minister of New Zealand that same year after the New Zealand National Party failed to form a government despite gaining the greatest number of votes in the government. She would serve as the Prime Minister 2017 to 2026, when her nation was merged with America to form the Anglosphere.

Shortly after her nation's dissolution, Ardern immediately ran for the Governor of Zealandia as the citizens of non-American states were unable to register in time for the Midterm elections in 2026. Ardern would win by a landslide and continued her career in practically the same location as she had been for a decade. Ardern would later be one of the founding members of the Anglican Labour Party along with Antony Albanese, who was the Senator for Victoria, and Angela Rayner, the Governor of Lancashire. Ardern would attempt to run for President in 2028, but failed to secure a nomination, losing to Alexandria Oscaio-Cortez.

In 2029, Ardern announced her bid to become the Party Leader of Labour, putting up against Ed Millband from England. Ardern's more moderate policies, combined with her general charisma and popularity would culminate in her being elected as the party leader. She would later run for the House of Representative seat at Auckland, and in the 2030 General Election, her party edge out Ron DeSantis' Republican-Tory Coalition, becoming the second Prime Minister of the Anglosphere. During her first term, she helped to draft up a new constitution, giving more power to the Prime Minister instead of the President.

2032 would be a huge year for Ardern, both in a good way and in a bad way. On 19th June that year, she was taking a stroll in Washington D.C. unprotected with her daughter Neve and sat down at a Starbucks without being recognized. As the two were chatting, a young man turned around from his stool, and pulled out a homemade gun, shooting Ardern twice in the neck. One of the bullets punctured her artery, while another went through one of her shoulders. She would be critically injured, and many compared it to Shinzo Abe's assassination in 2022. Despite doubts if she would even survive, Ardern recovered, though would spend several months in hospital, while using social media to rally for Labour's Presidential Candidate, which like 2028, was Oscaio-Cortez. Her efforts would pay off, as AOC won the Presidential Election in 2032, shocking the American populace.

With Labour sweeping all 3 main positions in the US Leadership, Ardern, Oscaio-Cortez and Rayner were able to pass the controversial 2033 Constitution, which mainly restructured the government by increasing the House of Representative member count to 1000 seats: stripping power away from the President and to the Prime Minister, as well as most controversially dividing up the US to 5 regions with 200 seats each. Many of Ardern's detractors called her a tyrant, while others saw her as a hero to prevent American domination. In 2034, a scandal broke that during the COVID-19 pandemic 14 years ago, she was breaching lockdown rules with her husband by having private parties, with photos as evidence. It was concluded later on by the Auckland police that the accusations were false, as the photos were authentically deepfaked.

After Ardern won the leadership election in late 2033, she swept the general election in 2034, she pushed for the total ban of civilian-owned guns, claiming that they do nothing but harm to the Anglophone populace. In an interview later on, she told British news outlet The Guardian that she shared a deep hatred of guns after she almost died in 2032, and more importantly as Neve was traumatized after seeing her mother shot in front of her and is now suffering from PTSD from the experience. Although the bill was rejected, Labour was still able to pass a modified version, which while didn't ban civilian-owned guns entirely, handguns and assault rifles were banned as they were too easy to be concealed. New restrictions were also put in place, with a background check to prevent crazed maniacs from owning a gun.

Foreign diplomacy wise, Ardern and Oscaio-Cortez strived for repairing the broken relationship between Europe and America, while being more practical in dealing with China. During the Russian Collapse, the US was the last of the superpowers to move into Russia, only after China and Europe had already taken most of European Russia and Southern Siberia. Thanks to Vice President Rayner's negotiation skills however, they were able to secure most of Siberia barring the area directly bordering China in the Mariupol Agreement in 2034, forming the Siberian Republic. Her leniency with China however eventually bit them in the back, as China invaded North Korea during the nation's collapse in 2036, as well as their aggressive approach to Taiwan has drawn much criticism.

Her diplomacy with Europe has been one of settling aside the two's differences and attempts to revive trade and visa-free travel between the two. During her visit to the British state of Wessex in 2034, future Prime Minister Greta Thunberg would visit her with a European diplomat to the US. The meeting, although unable to have direct effects, eventually proved useful for the rebuilding of Euro-American relationship. Ardern also helped the US to strike a trade deal with Europe towards the end of her premiership, trading microchip and 7G technology. She also helped the Erin O'Toole Cabinet to begin a potential construction of an Eastern North American High-Speed rail link, which eventually became the Euro-American Hyperlink Project.

In 2037, Ardern announced that she will not run for the leadership for Labour despite as expected, stating that the Red Wave was over after Oscaio-Cortez decided to not run for a second term, and the victory of Ron DeSantis in 2036. She would leave the office and return to the backbenches in 2038 with an approval rating of 43%, still the highest for any Prime Ministers as of 2050. Ardern would continue to represent the Auckland Bay congressional district, with her daughter Neve eventually beginning a political career of her own after she sponsored Sadiq Khan for the 2044 Election. Ardern eventually spent her 60's writing memoirs, which became bestsellers across not just the Anglosphere, but around the world.

As of 2050, Ardern is still serving as the representative for Auckland Bay, now residing in Auckland, though often travels to Canberra as the 5 congressional regions also have their own parliament to tune into Washington due to overcrowding in the Congress. Her daughter Neve is currently rumored to be preparing for a bid as a senator for Aotearoa (renamed from Zealandia in 2033). She has announced that she will retire in 2054 after being the representative of Auckland Bay for 30 years.