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Premier Bjorksdattir to leave office before next election
“35 years is long enough,” says long serving Socialist leader
Kaliburg, Ananto
August 31, 5094


Bjorksdattir will be stepping down to focus on her personal life

The long serving Premier of the Republic, Agnethe Bjorksdattir, has announced that she will step down as Party Leader and Premier of the Republic ahead of the next election. She has been taking a reduced role in developments of the Republic over the last four years and has decided that three and a half decades at the helm are long enough.

“I am getting close to my mid 50s,” said the perennially youthful Premier, “and the Republic does have a mandatory retirement age. Being the Premier has been the most rewarding and most challenging job I can ever imagine, but now it is time to move out of the way to let someone else take the helm.”

The Premier has recently begun making noise about retiring from office, and the pace of her comments picked up after the second Majatran expedition. Close associates have noted her frustration with the glacial pace of naval and aircraft procurement, the continuing conflict in Lourenne, and associated refugee crisis which has seen more than 2 million refugees resettled in Kalistan, and a number of other issues that have been left unaddressed by the Assembly as its attention is turned to things going on in other nations.

“She also would like to get married and settle down,” said government watcher Chris Jolli. “It is very difficult to have a personal life when you can be called in to work at any hour of the day to deal with some ridiculous crisis that isn’t if your making but that others decide to make your problem because they want to act like children.” The Premier would also like to focus more on her faith, which she has noted is difficult when you have to focus on rebuilding a military.

It is unknown who will replace the Premier, but that decision is still a few years in the future. Meanwhile, Comrade Bjorksdattir is focused on getting the various fusion power centers built across the Republic and sharing that technology abroad.