Adrienne LeCoultre-Overstraten

Overview
Adrienne Larissa Jacqueline LeCoultre-Overstraten is a Dranian politician of the right-wing Grand National Party currently serving as its parliamentary leader, trade and industry spokeswoman and MP for Santa Sharika.

Early Life
Adrienne was born in 3368 as the daughter of Janice LeCoultre, then-former Governor of Ulbrach Province and her husband Jacob van Overstraten, who was the CEO of a coffeehouse chain. From early, she enjoyed a privileged education due to the vast wealth of her parents (deriving from her father's company and her mother's 15% share of LeCoultre Hotels, a hotel chain founded by her grandmother, Larissa LeCoultre, who served both as Head of Government and Head of State of Dranland in the 3200s).

After school, where she had developed an early interest in political issues, she visited the famous First Private Dranian University (FPDU), an academic stronghold of the GNP, the party that her grandmother had founded. She studied political science and economics there, when her Professor in the former subject, Obadiah Lodwick, a one-time GNP presidential nominee, discovered her natural talent for political debate, rhetoric and writing and began to encourage it actively. After having earned a doctorate in political science in 3385, she began to teach at the FPDU for over ten years before getting involved in actual politics for the first time in 3395. By that time, her mother had become Prime Minister of Dranland after having ousted Delia Breckinridge. Adrienne became a member of the Santa Sharika city council and an advisor to local GNP leader Michèle Desyeux.

In the 3397 elections, she was elected to the federal Parliament via the Valdor party list of the GNP, alongside two of her family members, namely her mother Janice and Marco LeCoultre II., who descended from a different line of the LeCoultre dynasty. In Parliament, she first became GNP spokeswoman for trade and industry and subsequently parliamentary leader, after the departure of Sabrina McMahon. Due to the emerging of several far-right and far-left parties like the Valdorian Blue Shirt Movement and the Democratic Socialist Party, she was soon at the forefront of economic debates, fervently defending capitalism and free market economics at every occasion. However, she also became a popular target of the DSP which attempted to portray her as a lackey of the rich and privileged and a foe of the working class. LeCoultre countered by calling DSP leader Butterworth a "sexist" and "loathsome person" after some of his remarks towards her were deemed disrespectful against women in general.

Political Views
Despite the social liberalism of her mother, LeCoultre-Overstraten is one of the more conservative proponents of the GNP, opposing both abortion and gay marriage (although she supports civil unions with regards to the latter issue). On economic issues, she staunchly supports capitalism and anti-interventionism. She is also in favor of large privatization projects and tax cuts for all brackets of income.