Snø Jens

Snø Jens
Deputy Prime Minister
Assumed office 3 June 2019
Prime Minister	Apollo Cerwyn
Predecessor	Shounn Virny
Secretary of Commerce
Assumed office 3 June 2019
Prime Minister	Apollo Cerwyn
Predecessor	Emmanuel Starlynn
In office 1 October 2016 – 22 May 2017
Prime Minister	Shounn Virny
Predecessor	Shassel Marlaryen
Successor	Emmanuel Starlynn
Leader of the National Artists' Guild
In office 5 March 2017 – 29 June 2017
Deputy	Harmê Bertram
Predecessor	Shounn Virny
Successor	Harmê Bertram
Lieutenant Secretary of Salisse
In office 23 February 2014 – 4 August 2015
Predecessor	Ernesto DaVilha
Successor	John Lingyi
Minister for Home Affairs and Demography
In office 1 January 2013 – 1 June 2013
Prime Minister	Osez Kóvérsz
Predecessor	Vinter Jens
Successor	Dovedán Pashor
Minister for Health and the Environment
In office 18 October 2012 – 1 January 2013
Prime Minister	Napoléon Bleuberrie
Predecessor	Office established
Successor	Amaro Perdeut
Personal information
Birth name	Snø Sigurd Jens
Citizenship	Sabia and Verona
Political party	Democratic Party (since 2017)
Other political affiliations	Socialist Party (2012–13) Communist Party (2013–14) Left Alliance (2014–15) National Artists' Guild (2015–17)
Spouse(s)	Léon Jens-Galieri
Religion	None (Atheist)

In this traditional Sabian name, Ašuvái is the matronymic and Jens-Galieri is the family name.

Snø Sigurd Jens-Galieri (Sabian: sinnó sigúr ašuvái jens-galieri) is a Sabioveronese career politician who has been Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of Commerce in Apollo Cerwyn's Democratic government since 2019, and has sat in the Parliament of Sabia and Verona since 2015.

Jens' involvement in politics started in the Sahoedang as a minor Minister in Napoléon Bleuberrie's first government (2012–13). He served a term as as a legislator for Salisse and held ministerial posts in two occasions under Bleuberrie and Osez Kóvérsz, then going on to be mayor of Salisse from 2012 to 2015. He served as Secretary of Commerce from 2016 to 2017 under Shounn Virny, and was leader of the National Artists' Guild in interim fashion from March to June 2017 following Virny's resignation. Jens-Galieri joined the Democratic Party in 2017.

In 2015 he became one of the Salissian participants of the Haronos Plan, which sought to establish a permanent Sabioveronese settlement outside the Valtir Sector. On 25 August 2015 he became one of the founders of the city of Alios. He has twice been a constituent of Sabia and Verona, having participated in the Congress of Salisse, which redacted the Constitution of 2015, and of the Constitutional Assembly, which wrote the present Constitution of 2017.

Early life

Snø Sigurd Jens is of Venezuelan origin, but was born in Hamburg, Germany into the Jens family, one of the oldest families in the Valtir. Snø spent much of his early life in Hamburg, living under the Kârjasary household. Snø is the godson of Pomme-Gabrielle Gauvier and Ulla Müller. From an early age, Snø was exposed to a highly political environment; his brothers Vinter and Berth were involved early on with the Tiburones Ballena pa' la Asamblea campaign in 2012, before the creation of Sabia and Verona. Vinter was formed in Marxist thought, while Berth was an early supporter of Bleuberrism. Snø became involved with politics after meeting Napoléon Bleuberrie, at the time leader of the Sabia and Verona People's Movement (MPSV).

Political career

Early career

Jens became a member of the Sahoedang when the SVPM dissolved. He was chosen to be Minister for Health and the Environment by Napoléon Bleuberrie when his first government was formed, and held the position from October 2012 to January 2013. Jens later admitted that he was chosen because of his brother's preassure on the Prime Minister. After the 2012 general election, Jens remained in the cabinet under Osez Kóvérsz as Minister for Home Affairs and Demography, a position that had been previously held by Vinter.

In May 2013, Jens caused controversy by declaring the month of May of 2013 the "regional month of Pashqari grievances" following the Abrelian referendum that removed Lt. Secretary Cameron Green from office. During the Schubert-Moss affaire, Jens was an outspoken supporter of both Anton Schubert-Moss and Napoléon Bleuberrie, and offered himself to represent Schubert-Moss as his attorney, even though he was not a lawyer. Following the May 2013 general election, Jens was elected to represent the Capital Municipality of Salisse in the Courts of Sabia and Verona, for the Socialist Party and the left-wing faction. Jens would remain in this position until the failed self-coup attempt of Napoléon Bleuberrie on 25 July 2013, which resulted in Bleuberrie's arrest and the establishment of a provisional government. Following the failed self-coup, Jens among other important Socialist Party politicians left the party, now headed by Pomme-Gabrielle Gauvier. Alongside other leftist figures, Vinter Jens, Léon Galieri and Snø founded the Communist Party of Sabia and Verona (KMCW), which took an anti-Bleuberrist stance. Jens would become member of the party bureau.

Following the creation of the Federal Union of Juclandian Lands, Jens was elected to become the Lieutenant Secretary of the Capital Territory. The KMCW and the Socialist Party merged into the Left Alliance, of which Jens became a prominent figure. In July 2014 Jens oversaw the itroduction of reforms in which the City of Agâmilosh was declared an independent city from Salisse and the Municipality formerly known as "Salisse" became the Capital Territory, and thus Jens became the first Lieutenant Secretary of the Capital Territory. Later on August 2014 the Capital Territory was again renamed to Salisse as the Salisse Prefecture, and Agamilox was traspassed to the Abrelia Prefecture while the smaller city of Evra to the west was placed on the Salisse Prefecture's jurisdiction. In August 2015, he was succeeded by John Lingyi of the Unity Party as Lieutenant Secretary.

Congress of Salisse and Member of Parliament

Jens (center, behind Bertrand Rivière) in the Congress in Salisse.

In August 2015 he became one of the Salissian participants of the Haronos Plan, which sought to establish a permanent Sabioveronese settlement outside the Valtir Sector. Jens participated in the Congress of Salisse, and co-wrote the current Constitution of Sabia and Verona alongside other Haronos participants such as Galieri, Napoléon Bleuberrie and Bertrand Rivière. On 25 August 2015 he became one of the founders of the city of Alios. At the 2015 parliamentary election, he became one of the seven NNS members of parliament, representing the constituency of Darmosari North.

Jens retained his seat with a majority in the 2016 general election, and was appointed by Shounn Virny as Secretary of Commerce in the eighth government. On 5 October 2016 he succeeded Janina Amosiry as Vice-Chief Artist of the National Artists' Guild.

Ahead of the 2017 constitutional referendum, Jens was one of the dissenting voices within the National Artists' Guild that supported the 'Yes' option, in opposition to party leader Virny's staunch support for the 'No'. Following the resounding victory of the 'Yes' in the referendum, Virny resigned as party leader and the position went by default to the Deputy, Jens, who on 5 March 2017 became the second leader of the party since its foundation.

Leadership of the National Artists' Guild

Jens's accession to the Guild's leadership came at a hard time for the party: Virny's divisive administration had left the Artists split into two factions, the Virnyists and his own supporters, the Jensists. Jens himself had in various occasions criticized the Prime Minister. Shortly after he became leader, he became a constituent of the Kingdom once more by participating in the Constitutional Assembly. The Artists were the smallest group in the Assembly, and were consistently divided on every issue. In the 2017 general election, the Artists lost 2 seats and nearly 20 percentage points, their worst result in the party's history. Infighting within the party grew during his leadership, as the divide between Virny's supporters and his own deepened and important figures in the party defected, such as Étienne Boulin, Mayor of Alios, who departed from the party on 27 June. Jens admitted his main reason to resign were Napoléon Bleuberrie's comments on his disillusionment with the state of the Guild, and his feeling of having lost the party's trust.

Personal life

Jens has been in a relationship with Léon Galieri since 2011. Galieri is an activist, jurist and former politician who was twice Prime Minister of Sabia and Verona and currently sits as a magistrate in the Supreme Court of Sabia and Verona. Jens and Galieri, followers of the same ideology, have worked together in many political projects in Sabia and Verona, including the Socialist Party, the KMCW and the National Artists' Guild. The couple married in August 2013, which brought forth the legalization of same-sex marriage for plush toys across all of Sabia and Verona. Following Galieri's ascension to premiership, the couple resided together at the House of Blue in Salisse, the first time in Sabioveronese history a couple had lived together in the PM's official residence. The couple are jointly known as Snéon by the local media.

Jens has a degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Elinore. Though he is a self-declared atheist and supports state secularism, he has in recent years started to follow the Pahunnia.

References

Political offices
Preceded by Shounn Virny	Deputy Prime Minister 3 June 2019 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Emmanuel Starlynn	Secretary of Commerce 3 June 2019 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Shassel Marlaryen	Secretary of Commerce 1 October 2016 – 22 May 2017	Succeeded by Emmanuel Starlynn
Preceded by Ernesto DaVilha	Lieutenant Secretary of Salisse 23 February 2014 – 4 August 2015	Succeeded by John Lingyi
Preceded by Vinter Jens	Minister for Home Affairs and Demography 1 January 2013 – 1 June 2013	Succeeded by Dovedán Pashor
Preceded by New post	Minister for Health and the Environment 18 October 2012 – 1 January 2013	Succeeded by Amaro Perdeut
Parliament of Sabia and Verona
Preceded by New constituency	MP for the Alios List 22 May 2017 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by New constituency	MP for Darmosari North 1 October 2015 – 22 May 2017	Succeeded by Constituency dissolved
Preceded by Harmê Bertram	MC for Salisse 1 June 2013 – 1 October 2013	Succeeded by Noa Dargany
Party political offices
Preceded by Shounn Virny	Leader of the National Artists' Guild 5 March 2017 – 29 June 2017	Succeeded by Harmê Bertram
Preceded by Janina Amosiry	Deputy Leader of the National Artists' Guild 5 October 2016 – 5 March 2017	Succeeded by Vacant
Honorary titles
Preceded by Rosalind de Rivière	Spouse of the Prime Minister 23 August 2015 – 1 October 2015	Succeeded by Vacant
Preceded by Berth Jens	Spouse of the Prime Minister 1 April 2014 – 1 October 2014	Succeeded by Rosalind de Rivière