Eunice Olsen 'among most beautiful politicians'

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Sat, Mar 28, 2009
The Straits Times

Eunice Olsen 'among most beautiful politicians'

EUNICE Olsen already has the Miss Singapore Universe crown in her court. Now, the 31-year-old Nominated Member of Parliament is in contention for another beauty title.

She ranks among the Top 10 in the list of the world's most beautiful women in politics and government. With 18,980 points, she is in 10th position, just after Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The ongoing online pageant, to be decided by a poll, has been posted on Spain's 20 Minutos newspaper since December last year. It invites netizens to vote for their choice of contestants. The posting features 64 candidates from 30 countries, including China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu. By yesterday, Ms Jiang was ranked 47th with 6,533 points, just three notches below US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

 

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Poll on political beauties
'Among most beautiful'

Taking top spot in Spain's 20 Minutes newspaper's ongoing online pageant as of yesterday was Peru's Luciana Leon. Singapore's Eunice Olsen (above) was 10th; Japan's Yuri Fujikawa, fourth; China's Jiang Yu, 47th; and Peru's Mercedes Araoz, second. -- PHOTOS: WIKIPEDIA, ALBERT SIM, ST FILE, JAPANGLISH.TYPEPAD.JP, FMPRC.GOV.CN, EMBASSYPERU.ORG.SG

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EUNICE Olsen already has the Miss Singapore Universe crown in her court. Now, the 31-year-old Nominated Member of Parliament is in contention for another beauty title.
She ranks among the Top 10 in the list of the world's most beautiful women in politics and government. With 18,980 points, she is in 10th position, just after Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The ongoing online pageant, to be decided by a poll, has been posted on Spain's 20 Minutos newspaper since December last year. It invites netizens to vote for their choice of contestants. The posting features 64 candidates from 30 countries, including China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu. By yesterday, Ms Jiang was ranked 47th with 6,533 points, just three notches below US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Peruvian politician Luciana Leon, 30, was in first place with 46,512 points, while her compatriot Mercedes Araoz, 47, was second with 28,576 points.

The other Asian in the list is Japanese Yuri Fujikawa, 27, who was in the fourth position with 25,422 points.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was ranked 32nd, while Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was ranked 31st in the list.

Ms Olsen, the winner of the Miss Singapore Universe contest in 2000, is a Eurasian Singaporean. She is of mixed Swedish and Malaccan Portuguese ancestry from her father's side and Chinese from her mother's.

She is an active volunteer, providing counselling services to troubled teens. A former TV artist, she now aims to raise awareness about youth issues and to promote youth programmes and volunteerism.

The Beijing-born Ms Jiang has worked for the Foreign Ministry for more than 20 years and has been posted around the world, including the United Nations headquarters in New York.

She was designated the ministry's spokesman and deputy head of its information department in 2003, becoming the country's fourth woman to hold that position since the spokesman system was introduced in 1983.

The online poll does not say when the vote ends and when the winners will be announced.

 

[zhihau]

:p:p:p wondering if she's in the dark now :p:p:p

 

[popdod]

And how "beauty" helps the people????

:o

 

[Whats4]

:p:p:p wondering if she's in the dark now :p:p:p

so wat u wanna do? :p:p:p

 

[macky888]

not my type... i dun find her pretty.

 

[niigata]

Yuri Fujikawa, 27 ....
saw her waving at people at hachinoe train stn some time back.
definitely chiobu politician, a few classes above our very own E.O... *slurp..

 

[angie II]

Take a close look, don't lie to yourself if shes ugly
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[zhihau]

Yuri Fujikawa, 27 ....
saw her waving at people at hachinoe train stn some time back.
definitely chiobu politician, a few classes above our very own E.O... *slurp..

kawaii!!! :p:p:p

 

[dysentry]

E.O.

 

[Trout]

kawaii!!! :p:p:p

Politician 藤川優里 / Yuri Fujikawa (27), known for her most comely visage, as well as her youthful political success, has evoked a storm of criticism from her own supporters after it emerged she decided to pursue the release of her own image DVD and even a gravure photo album, adding insult to injury by not bothering to consult her support group, which has disowned her.

Ms Fujikawa holds the seat of a city councillor in Hachinohe, a city of 240,000 in the northern prefecture of Aomori, and is described as an independent conservative, though all her notoriety stems from being known as the 美人市議 / Bijin Gishi, or Belle Councillor. Her appearances frolicking in the snow in a bikini certainly also helped.

Rather than waste time talking about her tedious career let us examine it in pictures:

She was approached directly by Pony Canyon with a view to publishing the usual DVDs and photo collections of her (it’s not clear if she can sing as well), bypassing her political support infrastructure.

It is claimed when first approached, she initially refused, but soon decided it would be ok, so long as she could publicise the city as a tourist destination by doing so. It seems possible she might take this opportunity to stop wasting her time serving the city and instead take to cavorting in bikinis full time.

Her support group, responsible for getting her elected, is disgusted with what it sees as a complete betrayal of it and the city, with the chair saying the group can no longer support her under these circumstances.

He parts scathingly: “She’s massively betrayed the expectations of the constituents who voted for her, as well as all her supporters locally, nationally, and overseas. Personally, I find it hugely regrettable, but there’s nothing to be done now.”

These support groups are what gets Japanese politicians elected, and in many cases are rather more crucial to the business of being elected than the qualities of the candidates themselves, so it appears she will have to put on her skimpiest bikini if she wishes to make amends, otherwise her political career is finished.

Via Itai News.

We have already seen much of the constant interplay of idols and AV with other image professions, and it also seems the masses are only too eager to idolise public figures irrespective of their wishes (though this is likely human nature); perhaps this is only an extension of that?

Also, aren’t so many politicians already in office solely on account of their charisma, physical or otherwise?

 

[Leegimeremover]

This is confirmation that the ST is a tabloid paper. All the news are papparazzi fictional.

 

[zhihau]

whoa... hope she can retain the support from her people :p

 

[Trout]

whoa... hope she can retain the support from her people :p

Interesting fact though:
When Fujikawa was elected to the local parliament in Hachinohe she won double the votes of her nearest rival in the Komeito (6962 vs 3665) and drew the biggest voting turnout (56%) in the town for 12 years despite it being a rainy day. And most of her supporters are actually women.

 

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

Btw it's widely known we have at least HALF of the world's TOP 20 UGLIEST male / female politicians here.

 

[pfingo]

y no lily neo?

 

[johnny333]

Btw it's widely known we have at least HALF of the world's TOP 20 UGLIEST male / female politicians here.

Don't know what's selection criteria LKY used but its not
inner or outer beauty

Eunice Olsen is ok but not a real beauty, no offence to her fans

 

[Watchman]

What beauty got to do with politics ! Unless PAP is always deceptive and deceitful !

Always blindside the people with trifle issues !


My favourite all time girl !

 

[Watchman]

 

[diversifyx2]

Face dont turn me on, only CB