Jennifer Friedrickson

**Jennifer Victoria Friedrickson** (June 19, 1969 -) was an Avalonian politician and stateswoman who served as the inaugural Väldeminister of Avalonia between February 1, 2005 and September 27, 2009, and as the 13th, 15th and 18th Prime Ministers of Avalonia between September 27, 2004 - February 1, 2005, September 27, 2009 - September 27, 2017 and from September 27, 2025.

Elected as Prime Minister in 2004, Jenifer Friedrickson discovered fame for her exposé of the way that the Johansen royal family controlled the democratic process under Kind Olav V (1969 - 1991) and then Queen Victoria (1991 - 2005), with a famous January 2005 speech which denounced the regime, riding on the back of other pro-democracy campaigners who had discovered the scale of the autocratic nature of the Johansen family to begin an uprising against the royal family in the later days of January 2005. Acting as Prime Minister for the new monarch, Queen Elsie , Friedrickson outlined the fabrics of the new constitution for the Avalonian Republic, becoming the first Väldeminister of the nation and is generally remembered as the mother of Avalonian democracy too. Serving as Prime Minister on three separate occasions, as well as the inaugural Väldeminister of the new republic, Fridrickson is generally regarded as an above average Prime Minister, as well as one of the best Väldeminister and all around leaders of the Scandinavian nation. Known for her no-nonsense attitude to politics, Fridrickson laid out the basic principles upon which the federal government stood upon, leading bipartisan governments throughout the 2010s and then throwing her political energies behind the campaign of Ada Nilsen in 2025, becoming Prime Minister for an unprecedented third term the same year.

Friedrickson was the Prime Minister of Avalonia on three separate occasion, serving last as part of the Ada Nilsen Administration and was one of the founding members of the Liberal Liberal Party, of which she was the parliamentary leader of between 2009 and 2017 and from 2018, with a brief period of maternity leave in the middle with the birth of her daughter. As one of the elder stateswomen of Avalonian politics, her voice and input could be found in most policies of Liberal Socialist administrations in the early 21st century, and even that of Labour governments, with a famous coalition with the Maeve Anderson Administration between 2013 and 2017.

Friedrickson's four main premierships were notable for the passing of key sets of law through parliament that abolished the use of nuclear and fossil fuel in exchange for green renewable energy resources which benefit the environment of the Avalonian Peninsula. The abundance of clean green energy in Avalonia allowed the Nielsen Administration to begin a mass export of the unused deposits of non-renewable energy to other nations, financing an economic re-birth as a global leader whilst also beginning a period of dependency on Avalonian fuel as the world began to run out of coal and oil by the end of the 2020s. In 2033 Jennifer Friedrickson declined to stand for re-election as Prime Minister, and subsequently in September 2033 was replaced by Nina Auber, as Friedrickson retired from politics after nearly 30 years of being a major player in state politics, and having played a key role in the establishment of the modern Avalonian nation.

Despite her career as a strong advocate of democracy, Friedrickson's successors in government would later undo much of the work that Jennifer Friedrickson had stood for during her terms in office - by 2044, the main opposition in the form of the Labour Party of Avalonia had been banned and Väldeminister Wren Lindquist was beginning to assert her near total dominance over the political system; in 2045, just prior to the 2045 Väldeminister election, Jennifer Friedrickson led former väldeministers Owen Peters and Maeve Anderson in signing an open letter criticizing the direction of the government, resulting in all three being placed under surveillance by the state.

## History

Born in 1969 at the start of the reign of House Johansen, Jennifer Friedrickson grew up in a middle class family in Malmö before attending secondary school and then later college in the 1980s and early '90s, before graduating with a degree in politics in 1994. Joining the coalition for progress in the 1996 elections, she served as a cabinet member in several key departments in the early 2000s, securing critical experience before managing to secure enough votes in the 2004 Prime Minister election to take over as PM the same year.

Shocked by the level of monarch intervention by Queen Victoria in the supposedly democratic nation, Friedrickson took her qualms public, denouncing the way that the monarch bullied and manipulated Prime Ministers into following her will, forcing the PM to stand as an independent as well as blocking the formation of political parties. With with backing of several ex-prime ministers, she led a public uprising against the monarchy, with the royal family and House Johansen all arrested and detained by militia groups comprising of servicemen and women from the army and police forces, whilst Princess Elsie was crowned as an interim Queen.

Having overthrown the reign of the Johansen family and Queen Victoria in January 2005, the Coalition for Progress installed Princess Elsie to the throne as queen until the declaration of the Federal Republic of Avalonia on February 1, 2005. With the monarchy gone, the new republic set out it's new agenda for governance under the leadership of Väldeminister Jennifer Friedrickson, the former Prime Minister who's January 2005 speech on the corruption of government directly inspired the revolution of the same month. Establishing the office of Väldeminister as an equivalent to the office of a President to take the role of head of state, the Federal Republic designed a new temporary constitution in the 5 day reign of Queen Elsie, before introducing a complete constitution after the election of Friedrickson to office (which up until the election has only been on a temporary basis). Meanwhile, the office of Prime Minister was retained but reformed, with the PM being elected indirectly by the population, with the party leader with the most seats in parliament becoming Prime Minister and the Väldeminister would be selected by a popular vote nationwide.

## Premierships

### Väldeminister

 Prime Minister

Having overthrown the reign of the Johansen family and Queen Victoria in January 2005, the Coalition for Progress installed Princess Elsie to the throne as queen until the declaration of the Federal Republic of Avalonia on February 1, 2005. With the monarchy gone, the new republic set out it's new agenda for governance under the leadership of Väldeminister Jennifer Friedrickson, the former Prime Minister who's January 2005 speech on the corruption of government directly inspired the revolution of the same month. Establishing the office of Väldeminister as an equivalent to the office of a President to take the role of head of state, the Federal Republic designed a new temporary constitution in the 5 day reign of Queen Elsie, before introducing a complete constitution after the election of Friedrickson to office (which up until the election has only been on a temporary basis). Meanwhile, the office of Prime Minister was retained but reformed, with the PM being elected indirectly by the population, with the party leader with the most seats in parliament becoming Prime Minister and the Väldeminister would be selected by a popular vote nationwide. Setting about establishing the fundamental basics of the office of Väldeminister, Jennifer Friedrickson would become responsible for the creation of the independent judiciary systems, as well as the development of parliamentary checks and measures to prevent an autocratic leader from ruling over the nation once more. Despite her dedication to checks and balances, the office of Väldeminister of Avalonia would be subject to infinite re-elections, although only future leader Ada Nilsen would be able to continue to secure re-election in her abnormally long premiership.

### Prime Minister

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 Väldeminister

With the end of her first term of office as Väldeminister, Jennifer Friedrickson decided to step down from the role and become the new Prime Minister of Avalonia, allowing her own PM Owen Peters to become the new Väldeminister on September 27, 2009 and instead inherited a majority of Liberal Socialist members of parliament from PM Peters, which she used to implement a series of liberal policies as a part of the new agenda, working with Väldeminister Owen Peters to introduce a raise to minimum wage payments nationwide, introducing safeguards on policies implemented by his predecessor like same-sex marriage and state endorsed abortion, whilst experimenting with economic politics like abandoning the gold standard in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis and a National Living Wage to be paid in monthly instalments to all citizens to either top-up their wages or to ensure that everyone could afford housing and food to live a comfortable standard of living. At the same time, a two party system came to emerge, with Labour and the Liberal Socialist parties becoming the two major institutions in the nation, making it one of a rare handful of nations where the two main political parties are on the same side of the political spectrum.

Defeating the incumbent Väldeminister Owen Peters in the 2013 Väldeminister election, Labour party candidate Maeve Anderson stormed to power on the back of a generation who desired a return of Avalonia to the world stage after decades of isolationism. Unable to carry parliament with her electoral victory, Anderson became close allies with Prime Minister Jennifer Friedrickson, with the pair only coming to friction over more contentious issues like the 2014 Eurozone Referendum and the revoking of the National Living Wage in 2016. Setting a precedent for bipartisan collaboration, the premiership of Väldeminister Maeve Anderson managed to inspire a generation of free thinkers and liberals during her 8 year premiership, and remained at the forefront of the national zeitgeist for a decade after she left office. Retaining the Labour party nomination into the 2017 Väldeminister election, Anderson also managed to overturn the Liberal Socialist majority in Parliament, placing Matti Vanhanen as Prime Minister.

Carrying parliament in her election to office of Väldeminister, Ada Nilsen brought back Jennifer Friedrickson to serve as her prime minister, showing a clear distain for the constitutional parameters set out in the original constitution, leading to the 2027 revision of the Avalonian constitution which did away with the requirement for the Prime Minister to be the leader of the largest party, instead changing the law to mean that the Väldeminister has the constitutional right to appoint whomever they please to the office, separating government from parliament and reducing scrutiny that is normally upheld to government officials. Despite this, the government still has to seek parliamentary approval to pass legislation, thereby meaning that it is still of paramount importance for a political party to win control of parliament as well as the head of state office. Passing key sets of law through parliament that abolished the use of nuclear and fossil fuel in exchange for green renewable energy resources which benefit the environment of the Avalonian (Scandinavian) Peninsula. The abundance of clean green energy in Avalonia allowed the Nielsen Administration to begin a mass export of the unused deposits of non-renewable energy to other nations, financing an economic re-birth as a global leader whilst also beginning a period of dependency on Avalonian fuel as the world began to run out of coal and oil by the end of the 2020s. In 2033 Jennifer Friedrickson declined to stand for re-election as Prime Minister, and subsequently in September 2033 was replaced by Nina Auber, as Friedrickson retired from politics after nearly 30 years of being a major player in state politics.