Candidate Name: Ilmaras Kalessed
Home Nation: Istkalen
Office(s) sought: Internal Affairs Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: PEL
Biography: Ilmaras Kalessed was born in 1947 to a family of craftspeople, in an Istkalen recently disturbed by revolution. She would become one of the few rural Kitetois-speaking people to obtain a university education in Istkalen's history, and would initially enter the civil service before joining the Agrarian Union, a left-wing agrarian party in Istkalen, in 1977 following the destructive liberalization of the economy in 1973, which had led to millions losing their work and income, alongside severe social upheaval, in which she would rise rapidly, becoming its leader in late 1982. In 1983, the party was banned, along with all others, and Kalessed was placed under house arrest, where she would remain until 1992. Upon her release, she sought the introduction of a multi-party system in the then-Communist Istkalen, arguing that it was necessary to avert the collapse of the government. Her efforts succeeded in October of 1995; she was appointed as Prime Minister, a new position at the time, in January of 1996, heading a government of national unity, as the Republic of Istkalen collapsed as hatred for the communist government, particularly after a series of botched economic reforms spearheaded by the party against the advice of the Minister of Finance, greatly increased. She would flee the country during the "Revolution" in March, and was deposed in favor of a restoration of absolute monarchy, which she agitated against from abroad. Upon a military coup in June, after reports of extreme atrocities, she returned to the country, and was appointed Head of State by the ruling military junta of the time, a position in which she would serve, attempting to stabilize the country and create the foundations for democracy, until May of 1997, when the civilian cabinet of Istkalen was dissolved by the junta. In late 2002, she attempted to campaign for the Agrarian Union in elections to be held in January of 2003; in the end it was for nothing, as, merely fourteen days before the election, it was announced that the elections would merely the approval of a "Joint List," prepared by the junta, including several parties but excluding the Agrarian Union. She was placed in an internment camp for political dissidents after the Social Democrats took power later that year, in late March, where she would remain until the declaration of war of 2021, at which point she, alongside the rest of those in the camp, were forced to march over 100 km in an "evacuation," during which many died. Upon the end of the march, she appeared to be on her deathbed, and entered a comatose state; she was abandoned in a requisitioned barn, alongside the dying, where she was discovered by liberating troops. She has spent the last few months recuperating from this, and retired from politics during this time. She now seeks to take her expertise to Europe.
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