Commission Nominations, July 2022

[Inquista]

EUROPEAN COMMISSION ELECTIONS

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES

It is time to elect the next European Commission. In these elections, all offices of the European Commission will be up for election, including the Premier Commissioner, the Commissioner for Internal Affairs, and the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs.

The offices of Premier Commissioner and Internal Affairs are subject to a four-month term, while the Foreign Affairs office is subject to an eight-month term.

Premier Commissioner Joe Biden (Reitzmag) is term-limited and may not run for re-election.

As is traditional, I shall quote the words of our Returning Officer back in January 2011, who opened these nominations thus:

"These elections are supposed to give our member-states fair representation in this region - if candidates cannot take it upon themselves to be active, then I in particular, question their ability and willingness to take part in a body who must be active, accountable and able. I do not wish to threaten nor scare, but I want, for once, our European Commission to consist of Commissioners who are active and who play a part in the region both on and off this forum."

Interested candidates should fill out all information below:

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Candidate Name:
Home Nation:
Office(s) sought:
Incumbent? (Y/N):
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Nominations are NOW open and will close at 23:59 GMT on July 9th, 2022.

[Spain]

Candidate Name: Jean-Claude Juncker
Home Nation: The Kingdom of Spain
Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: European Progressive Alliance (EPA)
Biography: Jean Claude Juncker was the first secretary of State on the Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and European Union Minister. He has been the author of many projects and treaties that the Spanish Government has signed with other European Governments. He was born in 1955 in Luxembourg (Germanium). His father was a doctor and his mother was an University teacher. He studied in the prestigious University Carlos III de Madrid, where he got the double degree of Law and Political Science, and then he completed 3 master's degrees on Diplomatic Relationships, European Politics and Economics. He is a fluent speaker on Spanish, English, French, Nicoleizian and German, and he learnt Duxburian during his terms as Internal Affairs Commissioner, a position he was elected for in May 2020 and September 2020.

[Leagio]

Candidate Name: Kevin Cotilla
Home Nation: Commonwealth of Leagio
Office(s) sought: Internal Affairs Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: European Progressive Alliance (EPA)
Biography: Kevin Cotilla was he was born 1942 in Loors and on started out as a State Representative of the House of Representatives in Loor for the Progressive Alliance Party from 1982 to 1988 and even served Minister-Governor of Loors under a Conservative - Progressive Coalition government from 1984 to 1988. Eventually, he decided to move onto the national platform of the Progressive Alliance as a Councilor for Loors in the House of Councilors, where he served the position from 1988 to 1994. During his tenure, he would receive his doctorate in International Politics and Law from the Loors State University. As a counselor and member of the National Congress, he presented various pieces of legislation that ensure better rights and powers to the State and Territorial Governments of Leagio. For example, he presented a bill of legislation that officially gave the Karptniz minority in Leagio their own autonomous territory under the Karptniz Minority Status and Protection Act of 1992 with added money support from the Common Government for a period of 10 years to improve the living standards of Karptniz's in Leagio. His popularity would be on the rise to where he would serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Civil Populist Presidency of Alberto Malillos from 1994 to 2000, where he would run for the Senate of Leagio for the now State of Loors and serve said position since 2000. He serves now as a Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign ad European Affairs since 2020.

[BrumBrum]

Candidate Name:Calvin Kühnert
Home Nation:United Duchies
Office(s) sought:Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N):N
Eurogroup Affiliation:None
Biography:Calvin Kühnert is a politician in Westseaxna and one of the premier PSD politicians in the Duchy having been party leader there for 4 years a position he will resign if elected. He is running to increase the budget pledging to spend at least 85% but preferably 90% of the revenue the EU receives this budget with plans to increase the EDA budget to at least 30 billion euros per year out of the surplus funds. He would also look at what other departments could do with additional funding. His rallying call is "Use the budget" with a pledge to make a more equal union with more funding for transition from oil based and mining economies such as in DU and Vayinaod ensuring they get a bigger share of the pie and also making sure developing nations get a bigger share of the pies for example in Gaddaland and Aspern and Nofoaga. He proposes reforming the application process allowing nations and local or regional authorities to bid for yearly funds rather than project funds from the EDA allowing greater autonomy in how they spend the money with the need to report back how the money is spent.He is the candidate if you want an EU that does something and actually backs its talk with money.

[Inquista]

Candidate Name: Antoni Reynels
Home Nation: Inquista
Office(s) sought: Foreign Affairs
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: EPA
Biography: Antoni Reynels is an Inquistan diplomat and Bishop of the Inquistan Orthodox Church. Reynels received his BA (International Relations) from the University of the Mediterranean in 2002, and then completed his MA (International Political Economy) from Saint Pierre University in Icholasen in 2004. Upon completing his MA, Reynels worked as a researcher for various Inquistan foreign policy-related think tanks and research groups. In 2009, Reynels was made Consul General of the Inquistan Consulate in Verington, Duxburian Union. In 2013, Reynels was named High Commissioner of Inquista to Icholasen. Reynels served as the Inquistan High Commissioner to Icholasen with considerable distinction until 2020, when he was then elected to the European Commission as the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Reynels served one 8-month term as Foreign Affairs Commissioner, serving in the Whiteford and Merkel Commissions. In 2021, Reynels was elected to the College of Bishops for the diocese of Grand Canal-Pavillion. Reynels concurrently serves as the Bishop Secretary of Trade and as Bishop Secretary of International Aid and Development within Archbishop Mikaela Kligenberg's Church Secretariat.

[Istkalen]

Candidate name: Ilmaras Kalessed

Home nation: Republic of Istkalen

Office sought: Internal Affairs Commisisoner

Incumbent: Y

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 spent a few months recuperating from this, and retired from politics during this time. She now seeks to take her expertise to Europe.