LENA SEFER

Lena Sefer (6/4/1915 - 19/5/1998) was an Auroran politician who served as the first and sole Prime Minister of the Olympic Republic of Aurora. She was born in Greyton,AUR and her father was a community medical doctor. She received an MSc in Economics at the International School of Trandor and an honorary degree in political science as well. Lena Sefer was the parliamentary leader of the Democratic Union Party of Aurora since 1955. On the basis of the Statute of Westminster, she introduced a constitutional amendment which turned Aurora into a Republic (the Olympic Republic of Aurora). Despite the opposition of the British, the claim was valid and well documented, thus Aurora was proclaimed the first independent republic on the island's modern history, on 19 May 1961. She stood as Aurora's Prime Minister until the declaration of the Federation in 1975, serving also as President of the Joint Council in 1971 and 1972. After the Federal Republic was formed she continued as Aurora's Premier of the local Parliament until 1983, when the DU lost the elections to the NDP-AOEM coalition. She remained a local MP until 1994. Lena Sefer was also a Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organization which works to support democratic leadership, prevent and resolve conflict through mediation and promote good governance. She was also an acomplished ceramics artist.