Lesedi Mabaso

State Portrait of Premier Mabaso, 2265

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**Lesedi Mabaso** (born 2234) is a Prussian-born politician who has served as the nineteenth Premier of Neo-Europe, from May 2264 until March 2271. A member of the Constitutionalist Party, she held anti-Tekin views as well as strong beliefs regarding law and order. She is the first Premier to have been forcibly removed from office via impeachment.

## Early Life

Mabaso was born in Hamburg, Prussia, to single mother, Zulian immigrant **Letsha Mabaso** (2216-2262).

Letsha worked as a concubine to Ekrim Tekin in the early 2230s; one of their sexual encounters made Letsha fall pregnant. Fearing the loss of her daughter, Letsha did not mention the pregnancy but eventually fell out of favour with Tekin anyway and was cast out of his concubine circle. Several months later, Letsha gave birth to Tekin's unknowing child, naming her Lesedi.

She never knew her father, and Letsha had nothing to do with him months before Lesedi's birth. Through her mother, Mabaso has ancestry from the African state of Zulia, namely from the Basothu, Zulu and Swazi peoples.

Mabaso and her mother would often relocate to where it suited Letsha's work; they lived across Neo-Europe, from London, to Berlin, to even Tashkent and Lahore. However, she grew up in relative poverty, but found time to study

## Political Career

Mabaso was elected as a Constitutionalist Deputy, representing the **Saxony Northern Region,** in 2259.

### Selection as Constitutionalist Candidate

Following the assassination of Bernado Iancuni, she was hastily selected as the Constitutionalist Part Candidate for the 2264 elections.

## Premiership

Mabaso was surprisingly elected Premier in 2264, narrowly beating National-Liberal candidate Jan Novotny. Mabaso became the first (and currently only) black Premier of Neo-Europe, the youngest Premier upon election (at twenty-nine years of age) and was the first Prussian since Frederich Gruber, almost two centuries prior. Although unpopular with much of her own party, she set out various popular policies that proved benefitial to Neo-Europe.

## Post-Premiership

Shortly after her removal, Mabaso insisted she would remain a Deputy, but chose to sit as an independent. Supposedly, Milosovic was already in the works to remove her party whip.

Once Tekin took power, she was arrested by his regime and imprisoned. During the Domolaki invasion, her status is currently unknown,

## Personal Life

Her mother, Letsha, died in 2262 aged 46 due to what was believed to be a suicide while working in Grisea, the Moon. However, Mabaso believes she would never have done such a thing, and is convinced other factors were at play.

Mabaso, having discovered her true fatherhood aged 17, tried to hide the fact for much of her early political career, before it was uncovered by rival Constitutionalist Deputies, including Dmitri Milosovic, and she was forced to admit the truth, although reaffirming her stance against Tekinism.

### Family

Through her father, Mabaso is half-sister to French Guyanese President Felonius Tekin, as well as Emine Tekin and the other Tekin children. Obviously, there is a significant age difference (due to Tekin being 103 years old at the time of her conception). She had no relationship with them as they were simply unaware; however, if her mother did choose to state the relation, she would have been given compensation by Tekin's government, as was customary with his illegitimate offspring.