Shahrazad Martinique

Shahrazad Martinique (née Rogére; born 25 September 1958) is the current Premier of The Kingdom of Belmont and Leader of the Coalition Libérale. Martinique is the only woman to have held either post. She is also the youngest Premier since 1926.

First elected to the Chambre des Communes in the 1980 general elections, Martinique was one of the few new Libéralistes MCs elected in that election, which ushered in the beginning of the Conservative Era in Belmontien politics and kept the Libéralistes out of power for the next thirty years.

Throughout the 1980s, Martinique was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition. After the 1990 and 1995 general election defeats, Martinique was made the Shadow Minister for Housing and the Interior, respectively. After the electoral defeat in the 2000 general elections, the new party leader, François Vilbanois, appointed her deputy leader. After the 2005 defeat, and subsequent resignation of Vilbanois, she was elected unanimously to the leadership of the the Libéralistes.

In her foreword in the 2010 Libéraliste manifesto, Martinique had written of "a feeling of helplessness, that a once great nation has somehow fallen behind." The 2010 general elections proved to be the most successful showing for the Libéralistes since their founding Martinique to Premiership of the Kingdom. She became Premier determined to reverse what she perceived as a precipitate national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies have emphasized flexible regulation, particularly of the financial sector, and flexible labour markets, and the selling off and closing down of unprofitable state owned companies and boosting defense spending.