Premiership of Susan Kwon

 

Premiership of Susan Kwon

35th Prime Minister of Sierra
In office May 4, 2020 – November 28, 2022
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Cabinet	Kwon Ministry
Preceded by	Nemesis Heartwell
Succeeded by	Maggie Chan
Other information
Seat	Getty House, Porciúncula, Gold Coast, Sierra
Political party	Social Democrats of Sierra

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The premiership of Susan Kwon began on 4 May 2020 after Susan Kwon was elected prime minister after her upset victory in the 2020 Sierran federal election against her Royalist predecessor Nemesis Heartwell and ended on 28 November 2022 where she was succeeded by Maggie Chan in the 2022 Sierran federal election. After her party won the largest plurality in the House of Commons, she would form a coalition government with the Democratic-Republican Party and Green Party of Sierra in order to strengthen her position in a hung parliament. She was sworn in three days after the election occured on May 1 and is the first Social Democratic Prime Minister in Sierran history.

Upon being sworn in as Prime Minister, Susan Kwon's government has been nicknamed the "unlucky ministry" due to the various issues she inherited as Prime Minister after defeating Heartwell including the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra, a major economic recession from the pandemic, and the ongoing wildfire season across the country. Her first major healthcare legislation was the National Health Protection Act of 2020 which nationalized all healthcare facilities and established a formal nationwide single-payer healthcare system as opposed to the decentralized provincial-level single-payer healthcare systems instead. She also had Sierra join Operation Red Swallow, a military operation of the Conference of American States to deliver food, medicine and other supplies to various communities in CAS member states to alleviate the pressure caused by the pandemic and its socio-economic effects.

As Prime Minister, Kwon has repealed a number of executive orders issued by Daniel McComb and Heartwell including quotes restricting immigration from certain Muslim majority countries, cancelled a proposed border wall between Sierra and Mexico and also canceled plans to send Sierran troops to Sierra's territories in the disputed El Norte region, and stated her intent to reopen diplomatic relations with Mexico. In September, she would declare a state of emergency across Central Sierra due to the wildfires and would deploy the Sierran Royal National Guard to aid with the evacuation of people from areas under threat from the wildfires. While she has been accused of being the "Chaos Prime Minister" by her opponents in the Royalist Party, Kwon has enjoyed relatively high approval ratings, with her highest rating being 63% in November of 2020.

Kwon would be re-elected following a snap election in 2021, with the Social Democrats and the Progressive Coalition retaining control of the House of Commons. With her election came the start of her second term, though many political observers have viewed it as a continuation of her first term, largely due to the closeness between her election in 2020 and her re-election less than a year later.

In 2022, Kwon would face controversy over her handeling of the Caribbean diplomatic crisis for opposing most sanctions proposed against the United Commonwealth and United People's Committees despite public support for said sanctions. In September, controversy emerged over Kwon potentially benefiting from Continental interference in the 2021 elections. This lead to a government crisis on September 25 following the resignation of several cabinet members and the withdrawal of the Democratic-Republican Party of Sierra from her government. On September 27, a vote of no confidence successfully passed the House of Commons, paving the way for another early federal election. During the ensuing 2022 Sierran federal election, the Social Democrats suffered major electoral losses and the Democratic-Republicans took control over the House of Commons with Maggie Chan becoming prime minister. Due to talks between the DRPs and the Royalist Party on forming a grand coalition, Kwon succeeded Royalist leader Kenneth O'Conner as Leader of the Opposition.

Election

Main article: 2020 Sierran federal election

In January 2020, the Red Rock Castle crisis had occurred amidst controversy surrounding Prince George the Elder of Sonora and his ties to Ethan Liebermann, a prominent businessman, associate of the Sierran Royal Family and close friend of Prince George, who had been accused of engaging in acts of sexual abuse, violence and assault and was later charged on said crimes. Prince George was suspected of being an accomplice to said crimes and suspicion intensified over his resignation as Regent in October 2019. He would flee to the Red Rock Castle in Clark and would later be found dead eight days later, ending the constitutional crisis, and his death was ruled as a suicide. This lead to Maggie Chan, then Leader of the Opposition of the Democratic-Republican Party, to push forward the Early Parliamentary Federal Election Act of 2020 to call for an early election. Kwon voted in favor of the act and it would pass in both the House of Commons and Senate with the election scheduled for April, but later moved up to May due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kwon would be the main representative of the Social Democrats as the party's leader and would represent them in the 2020 Sierran federal election debates. There she would be praised for her presence, charisma, response to her opponents and willingness to take on various opponents at once. She gained popularity for her harsh rebukes of both Heartwell and Chan and for campaigning as the one to break the traditiona de-facto two-party system that Sierra has had for most of its history. She would go after Heartwell for her controversial policies, shifting of the Royalist Party to the right and for her interventionist foreign policy and would criticize Chan for her party being "too open to compromise" and for its traditional neo-liberal leadership, though she would later state her willingness to lead a coalition government with the Democratic-Republicans. As the election continued, opinion polls showed both the Social Democrats and Democratic-Republicans were neck-in-neck with a hung parliament being predicted as the outcome. Come May 1, election day, the Social Democrats would outperform gaining 56 seats and winning a total of 73 seats and flipped various Democratic-Republican districts with Kwon being declared the new Prime Minister with her party holding the largest plurality in an otherwise hung parliament. Kwon would begin her premiership in May 4 after being sworn in as the 35th Prime Minister of Sierra along with the formation of the 66th Parliament of the Kingdom of Sierra.

Appointments

Kwon cabinets

Main articles: First Kwon ministry and Second Kwon ministry

Kwon's first appointment was Nazareth Ontorio-Diaz who was selected to serve as her Deputy Prime Minister in her cabinet and was announced on May 2. That same day, Kwon selected Democratic-Republican Party Leader Maggie Chan to serve as a senior cabinet member succeeding Joe Millard as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Diaz was chosen due to her joining the Social Democrats in 2019 and for her left-wing progressive and social democratic positions while Chan was chosen as a means of forming a coalition government with the Democratic-Republicans, which was necessary in the hung parliament, and also due to Chan's long non-interventionist and anti-war record. Further cabinet picks were announced on May 4 and on a later date in the same month.

Chan's second government was formed in 2021 following the 67th federal election which expanded Kwon's coalition government. With the incorporation of Bajaría as the fourth constituent country of the union, Kwon's second ministry included the Democratic Party and Progressive Democrats with the latter being the regional ally of the Social Democrats in the country.

←Kwon Ministry→
May 4, 2020 — November 28, 2022

Prime Minister
Susan Kwon

Military	Parliament	Executive and Privy Councils	Supreme Court
Sierran Crown Armed Forces	Senate President President pro tempore Majority Party Leader Opposition Party Leader House of Commons Speaker Majority Party Leader Opposition Party Leader	Susan Kwon (head)	Chief Justice Preston Brantly
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Foreign policy

Main article: Foreign policy of the Susan Kwon government

United Commonwealth

Main article: Kingdom of Sierra–United Commonwealth relations

Mexico

Main articles: Mexico–Kingdom of Sierra relations and Mexican–Sierran border crisis

China

Main article: China–Kingdom of Sierra relations

Domestic policy

Healthcare

COVID-19 pandemic

Main article: COVID-19 pandemic in the Kingdom of Sierra

Operation Red Swallow

Main article: Operation Red Swallow

National Health Protection Act

Main article: National Health Protection Act of 2020

Social issues

Criminal justice

Police brutality

Following the murder of George Floyd in Saint Anthony, Minneapolis, Superior, by an officer of the Saint Anthony Police Department, a series of protests, demonstrations, and riots broke out across Superior and later the rest of Anglo-America and later escalated beyond North America. Kwon would support the protests and campaigned on addressing the issue of police brutality in Sierra.

On April 22, Kwon would propose the Public Security Reformation Act of 2021 which calls for the fundemental reorganization and restructuring of the system of public security in Sierra. The bill calls for the reduction of funding for police departments, the allocation of said funds to other public services and alternatives to policing, and also calls for the demilitarization and partial disarming of the police in general.

Territorial incorporation

Following the 2021 El Norte status referendums, Sierra's territories in the El Norte region voted to be integrated into the wider union as a fourth constituent country. This new country was organized as Bajaría and would include all four territories in the region as states with a fifth state being created known as South Sonora. Kwon supported the move believing in the self-determination of the peoples in the region and backed the move later sponsoring the Organic Act of 2021 to include the territories as a new country.

Approval ratings and image

Main article: Public image of Susan Kwon

See also

• Forwarding the Movement
• Republicanism in the Kingdom of Sierra

Sierran premierships
Preceded by Nemesis Heartwell	Kwon premiership 2020–2022	Succeeded by Maggie Chan