Clauzia Sarohart

Clauzia Sarohart
Sarohart in December 2020
2nd Prime Minister of Vothetria
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 June 2019
Deputy	Immima Magolen
Preceded by	Lupe Juentines
1st President of the North Ethalrian Confederacy
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 September 2019
Preceded by	position established
Leader of the Vöhmian Workers Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 April 2018
Preceded by	Jina Xurzese
MP for Silverdale
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 February 2019
Preceded by	Joan Lukista
Chief of Propaganda for the Vöhmian Workers Party
In office 15 March 2018 – 13 April 2018
Preceded by	Rita Schmidt
Succeeded by	Gloria Tassenburg
Personal details
Born	Clauzia Mirajane Sarohart (1981-03-09) 9 March 1981 Wüller, Ethalria (Matriarchy)
Political party	Vöhmian Arbeiterpartei
Residence	Silverdale
Awards	Arkian Campaign Military Medal
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Matriarchy of Ethalria
Branch/service	Ethalrian Army
Years of service	2001-2017
Rank	Lieutenant
Unit	21st Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	Arkian Civil War Belstradt Hetzë Auroran-Pacific War Arkenvel Karinthus

Clauzia Mirajane Sarohart (born 9 March 1981) is an Ethalrian-born Vothetrian politician who has been leader of the VWP (officially the Vothetrian Workers' Party) since 2018. She rose to power in June 2019, defeating Lupe Juentines to become the second prime minister. During her tenure she formed a coalition government with the Vothetrian Unionist Party, the relationship of which broke down in December 2020, triggering the ongoing 2021 general election.

Sarohart was born in the Matriarchy of Ethalria and was raised in Wüller. She attended a military academy and was deployed as part of a peacekeeping force to the Nilovian region during the Salovian Civil War. Sarohart was decorated for her service in the Ethalrian Army in the Arkian Civil War in 2004-05 and later the Auroran-Pacific War. After her injury in the Battle of Karinthus she spent over six months recovering from a tibia fracture in Silverdale. There in February 2018 she joined the Vothetrian Workers' Party, gaining popular support with her revived nationalistic, pan-Ethalrian and anti-communist views as their lead public speaker and by April the same year had become its leader. Sarohart became a MP for Silverdale in the February 2019 general election and became a major proponent in the exposure of the Juentines Scandal and the ousting of Conservative government.

By June 2019 the VWP had the most seats in the Vothetrian Unterhaus but did not hold a majority in government. Sarohart and Jemima Leubel formed the first Vothetrian coalition as the Workers'-Union government. A month later Leubel was killed in the Muren Train Bombing and Sarohart became the face of a national scandal. When members of the VWP led a coup d'etat in August against Sarohart at Phoenix House, investigations by police decreed she was innocent. Sarohart narrowly survived and through legislature banned the Vothetrian Socialists' Party, and any communist party from politics. Through later patent from the late Kothalrian Prime Minister Gweneth Moor, Sarohart formed the foundations of a North Ethalria through a de jure confederacy of equal states.

Sarohart's initial foreign policy involved furthering trade deals with Great Morstaybishlia to agree with Barvata's terms to the Ocean Access Deal. She became instrumental in the founding of the Ethaln League to further align the interests of the Ethalrian-speaking nations of Aurora. Sarohart formed a strong alliance with Rodenia, but threatened to pull out of their alliance after the 2020 Puntalian Crisis.

Sarohart had inherited a country close to bankruptcy following the Auroran-Pacific War and beset by food, housing and resource shortages; despite the nation having been run under Conservative administration for nearly one and a half years. Encouraging private investments and receiving loans from Morstaybishlia and Arkalarius, Sarohart began overseeing the largest infrastructure investiture since the late 1970s, rebuilding cities, roads, flood defences and the military.

Early years

Childhood and education

Clauzia Sarohart was born on 9 March 1981, in Wüller, during Sofura's regime of the Matriarchy of Ethalria. She was the third and last child to Edrena Sarohart (1942-present) and Hans Sarohart (née Smitga; 1925-1992). The Saroharts were sharecroppers and their ancestral home was Benzfeld, a small village near Aerundel-on-Ider, until Clauzia's parents were forced from their property when Morstaybishlia took control of the Marislian region during the Auroran Imperial War.

The Sarohart ancestral home, pictured in the early 1960s

As a child, Sarohart was a loner with mood swings and an explosive temper. Her family moved from Wüller to the village of Küsbeskirchen. She grew up in the northern countryside around the towns of Millestätt, Wupoßwalde and Schlickburg, where she attended first school. Her father died of oesophageal cancer by the time she was eleven. When she was fourteen and on her way to second school she was harassed by a gang of men who wanted to rape her, but she was saved by her brother Kimber and his friendship group who fended them off with sticks and stones. In 1995 she began a brief stint as a shop assistant to help support her family which coincided with her second school exams.

The loss of her father stayed with Sarohart throughout her life. She later stated:

"He died when I was only eleven. I remember how much of a lovely, kind and warm person he was for the family. When I attended his funeral I remember saying my final goodbyes; they were heart wrenching. Can you imagine saying your last farewell to your father? When he passed away, he took something of me with him. I still haven't found what it is."

Early adulthood

When Sarohart completed second school at sixteen she moved out from Küsbeskirchen and took up a job in the postal service. At the time she was living in Nirenach, a town ten miles from Wüller. When she was seventeen she expressed her unpleasant experience in the job to her family and friends who later urged her to sue her male colleague Frederich Nunes for sexual harassment and gross misconduct, to which she was successful and received a lump sum of ♅5,450 in compensation. Nunes was later jailed for a separate conviction of molestation. A year later she quit her job in the postal service to pursue a more "advantageous career".

Military career

Salovian Civil War

Sarohart completed her basic training between 1999-2000 at Wüller Military Academy. She enlisted as a private in 2001 at the age of 20, where she was sent as apart of a peacekeeping operation to the Nilovian region in Tuvaltastan during the Salovian Civil War where she helped the import of thousands of tonnes of food, medicines and essential items to war-stricken families. She was there for a 14 month rotation until recall in 2003.

Arkian Civil War

Between 2004-2005 Sarohart was deployed to Arkalarius to support the Imperialist faction of the civil war. The fascist stance of the Matriarchy much favoured an imperialist victory over communist. She fought in two important battles; the Seige of Belstradt and the Battle of Hetzë, where the latter she received the Military Medal for bravery after taking a defensive stance in a building against upwards of thirty opponents to protect a civilian family caught in crossfire. She received the Arkian Campaign medal in 2006.

Auroran-Pacific War

When Sarohart was deployed in May 2017 she was a Lieutenant. She led a platoon in the offensive into Caltharus, where she lost twenty four of her forty six platoon mates during an ambush at their camp at 02:44. She was relocated to the western front where she defended from a Morstaybishlian-led invasion, though after a month it culminated in the defence of Arkenvel. Harimann ordered a general retreat from the northern cities to defend the more strategically important of Irvindel, Rorikton, Karinthus and the capital, Rivendale. Sarohart was sent to Karinthus where she engaged in street-to-street gunfight, at one point she described her position narrowly being overrun.

Sarohart was shot in her leg and was incapable of continuing her fight. She was evacuated on a train to Rivendale where she was assessed. A surgeon team removed a bullet from her leg which had pierced her tibia bone and splintered it into her muscle and connective tissue. According to surgeon notes, one bone fragment measured 12mm long and missed her anterior tibial artery by less than 2mm which would have been fatal. Along with many others in her situation she fell under the rehabilitation program and was sent to a rural community far from the front to recover. Sarohart was sent to the village of Silverdale close to the border with Durentrus, then the Republic of Ethalria. Her injury, and then the dissolution of the Matriarchy effectively ended her military career.

Entry into politics

Silverdale

Sarohart spend over six months recovering from a tibia fracture from the Auroran-Pacific War in Silverdale, an old rural mining community in the west of the Matriarchy of Ethalria, later Vothetria. Sarohart grew ill contempt of the fracturing of the Matriarchy into four nation states; Vothetria, Faethalria, Kothalria and Thalria - overseen by at the time Prime Minister Walter Johannes of Great Morstaybishlia.

Shortly after being able to walk independently, Sarohart discovered that Silverdale was the headquarters of a near decade-long minor political movement that had hitherto been unsuccessful. She joined the Vothetrian Workers Party in January 2018. Sarohart soon befriended their leadership, particularly Immima Magolen and Kiara Lunenburg.

Chief of Propaganda and oration

Her public speech in an Ohmnervel tavern, 2018

Sarohart discovered a since unknown knack for public speaking after stepping in for Kiara Lunenburg during one of her planned lectures in January 2018. Her public speaking originated in pubs and lecture halls in Silverdale and Kalingsa, before moving into the cities of Ohmnervel and Wüller. Sarohart soon became the lead vocalist in their tavern lectures, where her oratory and propaganda skills were praised by her party leadership. Jina Xurzese appointed her Chief of Propaganda in less than two months of being a party member.

Over time, Sarohart demonstrated oratory strength and began to transform a once unknown and localised political party. Sarohart organised their biggest meeting, which exceeded 2,500 people on 15 March 2018 in the Ohmnervel tavern Weißer Fasan, which became a huge success and turning point; receiving booming applauds as she cast her opinion and threw insults at the Conservative government, blaming them for many depravities, including their living conditions imposed by their slow policies and the presence of an occupying Great Morstaybishlian armed forces which she described as "oppressing, backwards and wrong". As Sarohart became the lead party speaker and Chief of Propaganda, the VWP became recognised in the media for its transformational effect and its huge incline of membership through its pan-Ethalrian, nationalistic and anti-communist rhetoric; though Sarohart reigned in her explicit anti-government and anti-Morstaybishlian occupation sentiments when police began monitoring her public speeches.

Becoming party leader

Clauzia Sarohart in 2018

Sarohart and Immima Magolen were on a trip to Karinthus in early April when a mutiny broke out within the VWP. Members of its executive committee including the founder, Jina Xurzese, wanted to merge with the rival Vothetrian Socialist Party led by Hanna Boeler. Sarohart returned to their new Ohmnervel headquarters and angrily tendered her resignation. The committee members realized that the resignation of their leading public figure and speaker would mean the end of the party. Sarohart announced she would rejoin under one condition- that she would assume party chairman as replacement for her former mentor Jina Xurzese and that the party headquarters would remain in Ohmnervel instead of merging into Karinthus. With some hesitance, the committee agreed, and she rejoined the party on the 9 of April as member 4,380. In the days following, Sarohart organised several tavern speeches that were, on the night, absolutely packed, and defended her new position to vibrant applause. Her strategy proved successful, and at a general membership meeting she was granted absolute powers as the party chairman with zero votes against.

When she rose to party leader and chairman on the 13 April 2018, she immediately resigned as chief of propaganda, although the position had been initially suspended during her absence. She appointed Gloria Tassenburg to replace her. Sarohart expelled Jina Xurzese from the party shortly after, some time in April, and publicly denounced her for ideological betrayal and negligence to the party.

Entering parliament

In January 2019, Lupe Juentines failed twice to rally a majority of votes in parliament which would allow her to send forces alongside Faethalria to deal with the Southern Auroran Front; requiring 209 of the 211 conservative seats she held but only achieving 205 because of backbench Conservative rebels. She called an early general election to be held in February and the Opposition Leader Carla Schmidt agreed, whipping her party to unanimous vote.

Sarohart elected over one hundred members of her party to run for seats for the election, targeting swing seats of Labour and the Unionist Party. She installed a hard work ethic in the running party members and fiercely campaigned herself in the Silverdale constituency, which was a gamble as it was held by a 21 percent Conservative majority of votes. Her efforts paid off, and her party entered parliament for the first time, winning 34 seats of their fielded 104 in their first election. Sarohart gained a 10 percent majority of votes in her own constituency. Alongside Sarohart, both Kiara Lunenburg and Immima Magolen entered parliament.

Exposing Lupe Juentines and ascension to prime ministership

Clauzia Sarohart declared that Juentines had been stealing money from public sectors after Tell The Truth (TTT) published some findings on Juentines the day before. Eventually, when Juentines was investigated, she was found as a fraud and subsequently sent to jail with the chamber calling for a new general election. During this time, Sarohart campaigned fiercely, introducing a Männer Soldaten (MS), a paramilitary force run by men within the party- the first time it had happened in over 500 years, in which she enlisted the leadership skills of Brookmar Von Fansburg and Waltar Eustmach. On the same day and to Sarohart's disapproval, Marza Leuredofer, a key ally and the leader of the Schutzeinheit (SZ; Sarohart's first paramilitary corps) made several bold statements to merge the SZ and the Vothetrian Army which caused significant consternation within the army's hierarchy.

Prime Minister: 2019-present

Exposing to wearing scandal

In late July 2019, Sarohart was accused of the murder of several Unionist MP's including her coalition partner Jemima Leubel. National news broadcasters and papers accused her of the murder as CCTV footage showed a camouflaged jeep from the Schutzeinheit (SZ) enter a train tunnel with a truckload of bombs and leave without any. Shortly later, a train entered the tunnel and never left, the detonation collapsing the tunnel and killing everyone inside. Clauzia reassured that she was not responsible and soon drew to conclusions that it was Marza Leuredofer's ambitions to overthrow her. She dismissed Marza, and she then conspired with the socialists Hanna Boeler and Jina Xurzese. It was only on the 20th of August, when the socialists orchestrated an attack to what would be the failed glorious communist revolution in the Workers' Party headquarters; the Phoenix House Gunfight, that Sarohart realised the train assassination of Jemima Leubel and her comrades was apart of this greater plot to overthrow the government. She condemned and exposed these actions to the world press.

Before the attack on Phoenix House, President Gweneth Moor of Kothalria gave her a Letter Patient from the government of Kothalria to form an Ethalrian Confederacy which would see the five Ethalrian-speaking Vothetrian states of Rauma, Nirvon, Vügarnitz, Deloria and Neuza, as well as the five Ethalrian-speaking Kothalrian states of Audervel, Ukst, Rorik, Aalzing and Dolsche form a Confederacy. It would entail an new trades union as well as propel both the country's into a decade of prosperous economic development. Sarohart declared her intentions to go forward with her "final wish" in the coming month after her injury healed to discuss how the balance of power will be established.

Sarohart also revealed that the former Grand Matriarch Amalda Harimann sacrificed her life to save hers. She stated that Amalda was working in secret for Lady Posol.

"I had no idea that Amalda Harimann was in the same room as me. They all wear masks and identifying people becomes very difficult."

Sarohart and Magolen attended the funerals of Kiara Lunenburg, Ursula Mayr and attended Amalda Harimann's funeral which was in Rerikdale, Faethalria, on 6 September 2019.

Personal weapon

Sarohart's Kafvoer Luger

Clauzia Sarohart carries around a Kafvoer Luger 22 that she attained during the Auroran-Pacific War for personal protection. Gun-laws in Vothetria allow for Sarohart to open-carry with exceptions. The pistol is designed with a straight blowback action, and is crafted using 7075 aluminium alloy. The gun uses .22 Long Rifle ammunition, with a magazine holding ten rounds. The gun comes equipped with a thumb safety as well as front and rear iron sights. Her modifications include a blackened stainless steel slab side barrel with polished flats, laminated rosewood coloured grips and fiber-optic front sights with two golden devil horns on either side of the pistol grip. Sarohart is not allowed to take it into parliament.