Commission Nominations, Aug/Sep 2020

[Inquista]

EUROPEAN COMMISSION ELECTIONS

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES

It is time for elections to the next European Commission. In these elections, two offices - Premier Commissioner and Internal Affairs - will be up for election.

The offices of Premier Commissioner and Internal Affairs are subject to a four-month term.

Due to term limits, candidates from Icholasen may not stand in these elections.

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):
Eurogroup Affiliation:
Biography:

Nominations are open from NOW and will close at 23:59 GMT on August 25th, 2020.

[Kingdom of Reitzmag]

Candidate Name: Atty. Edmund Jasper Winston IV, PhD
Home Nation: Reitzmag
Office(s) sought: Internal Affairs Commission
Incumbent? (Y/N): No
Eurogroup Affiliation: European Liberal Democrats
Biography:
Born June 12 1966 from the family of foreign diplomats and lawyers. He graduated law at the University of Strathe. He also studied education at the same university and garnered a doctorate degree. He became a professor at many schools and is an impressive polyglot and public speaker on which he can speak 14 different european languages. He became a former Foreign Affairs Minister under the administration of Prime Minister Carl Dewitt from the Labour Party. Atty. Winston ran for the Internal Affairs Commission Race in April 2020 but lost against Jean Claude-Juncker.

[Leagio]

Candidate Name: Senator Maria Cecilia Kerstin, PhD
Home Nation: Commonwealth of Leagio
Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: EDLR
Biography: Born in 1984, Maria went to college at the University of Gopen in Vese for Economics and Political Science through a dual major program. Then she went forward with a PhD in Economics from the University of the Commonwealth in Tullion. She ran for election in the Gopen State Senator in 2014 then would go to serve as Senator for Gopen in 2016 within the National Congress. She has continued to serve as a Senator for Gopen since then. By rising through the ranks of Leagioan politics,
Senator Kerstin would be Chairman in the Senate Commitee of the Economy since 2018. She was one of the Senators that would sponsor the Eastern Economic Development Act that would be passed through both houses of the National Congress, which helped to solve the economic crash that occurred back in April that resulted in Leagio joining the European Union not long afterward.

[Spain]

Candidate Name: Jean-Claude Juncker
Home Nation: The Kingdom of Spain
Office(s) sought: Internal Affairs Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): Y
Eurogroup Affiliation: EPA (European Progressive Alliance)
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 term as IAC.

In May 2020, he was elected as Internal Affairs Commissioner. During his 4 months term, he has set the first European Assembly meeting, travelled to Leagio, Czech Slavia and Eastern Haane, where he solved the conflicts that were taking place on the nation by the Treaty of Kiel.

[Inimicus]

Candidate Name: Dr Walter Cocx
Home Nation: Empire of Inimicus
Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: N/A
Biography: Walter was born in the northwestern Inimician city of Astro and began his career as a theoretical physicist. He made the switch from science to politics after the founding of the Empire in 2012 - he was twice elected as Duke of his local Territory and represented his administration as Chair of the Ducal Council last year. His term as Duke was characterised by widespread social and economic reforms, including the introduction of wealth-dependent traffic fines and trials with a universal basic income. He was encouraged to run for Premier Commissioner by the Inimician National Imperial Council.

[Vayinaod]

Candidate Name: John Oliver
Home Nation: Vayinaod
Office(s) sought: Internal Affairs
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: Independent (Affiliated with MEGA)
Biography:

John Oliver has a...controversial history with the European Union. From a rather disastrous stint as a Council Speaker and EV Host to a condemned 'talk show persona' Mr Oliver knows what it means to fail Europe.

He has held various local offices in Vayinaod, and has a masters in Communications from the University of Falkor. He seeks to join the race to counter the current rhetoric of the candidates and offer his own view of where Europe should go. Mr. Oliver has matured and changed since his time before in European Government and seeks to now atone for those sins through Making Europe Great Again.

He stands for a pragmatic Europe intent on working on true European issues, and working to ensure solutions are driven by member-states through cooperation from than forced through the EU.

[Czech Slavia]

Candidate Name: Sofie Čikarová
Home Nation: Democratic Republic of Czech Slavia
Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: PEL
Biography: Born in 1979, Čikarová studied Journalism at Charles University. She began her career as a writer for the Communist Party of Czech Slavia newspaper, Red Justice. In 2014 she was nominated by the CPCS and elected to the Council of the Czech News Agency and was reelected in 2019.

[A Former User]

Candidate name: Katrin Weber
Home Nation: Confederation of Eastern Haane
Office sought: Internal Affairs Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: None
Biography: Katrin Weber was born under the capitalist dictatorship of 1972-1996, becoming, even in her youth, a major voice for the movement for the reestablishment of democracy. By the age of 14, she had become the head of the youth wing of the democracy movement in all of Eastern Haane. She served as a representative for her home canton of Kiel in the 1996 peace deliberations at the age of 20.

In 1996, she began to attend the University of Kiel, previously having been delayed by the near war-like situation of the 1990-1996 period. She would continue to study for the next 12 years along her activism, eventually earning a Ph.D in Sociology.
She was the unofficial head of the revolution of 2001, which exiled the former dictators of 1980-1996. In the revolution of 2005, which resulted in a massive decentralization of political power and the resignation of the Supreme Councillor and Consul of the time, she played an important role in coordinating the nascent workers' councils in both their protest and governance. In 2008, she stood with ethnic groups protesting for recognition and autonomy.

In 2013, during a major famine, she coordinated aid efforts when the government refused to, distributing remaining food, as well as medication for such diseases as cholera, to survivors, at the same time working herself on volunteer brigades that helped repair infrastructure.

All of these actions, combined with a campaign that focused on compassion and solidarity, helped her win the Consulship in 2014. As Consul, she acted as a neutral arbiter between the state owned worker and employer unions, breaking an awful tradition of siding with employees.

At the same time, she greatly liberalized, through decree, independent trade unions, establishing an important role for them in the economy in a new 'social partnership.'

She also expanded the use of referendums and initiatives, allowing any petition sent to her that reached 125,000 signatures to go to vote, at the same time holding binding referendums on every single one of her decrees.

She was a major role in instituting a minimum income as well as the expansion of sex education and the availability of abortion and birth control, at the same time improving access to health care by nationalizing hospitals and clinics and making them open to all, bringing down medicine prices through negotiations and price controls.

[Pravoslaviya]

Candidate Name: Dragan Trympov
Home Nation: Pravoslaviya
Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: N/A
Biography:

Dragan Trympov is the very definition of the European success story, setting the standards of excellence in his business endeavours, and now in Pravoslaviyan and European politics.

A self-made billionaire, Trympov inherited just a few million Pravoslaviyan dinars and a modest property portfolio from his father, Fridrik Trympov, who had entered the world of business after the fall of Communism in 1989. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Trympov created an empire of skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, golf courses, steaks, board games, and vodka – and much, much more. In the late 2000s, Trympov – already a byword for business success in Pravoslaviya – became even more of a household name as the host of the Pravoslaviyan edition of phenomenally successful TV show The Apprentice.

Most recently, disgusted at the corruption at the heart of the Pravoslaviyan political system under former Prime Minister 'Retard' Apostol Tsrvenovski, Trympov entered politics as leader of the League Against Corruption. He tore up the political rule book and took his message directly to the people, and in 2016 became Pravoslaviya's Deputy Prime Minister, in coalition with Prime Minister Metodi Pravoslav. During his time in office, Trympov has kept his promises to defend Pravoslaviya's borders against illegal immigration, speak out against fake news, and denounce the crimes of Europe's corrupt globalist elite.

In 2020, Dragan Trympov took his movement Europe-wide. Campaiging to drain the swamp in Europolis, stop the coups and Make Europe Safe Again, and standing up to Communism and globalism, he went from nowhere to over 30% of the vote in just three weeks, against the full weight of the globalist machine. Now, he is continuing his fight to Make Europe Great Again!

[Fremet]

Candidate Name: Angela Merkel
Home Nation: Kingdom of Fremet
Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: EPA

Biography:
Born in 1955 in a fishing village in the suburbs of Nordhavn, Angela's father, the Commandant for Helmsdorf in the Staatspoliti, would be assassinated by Nicoleizian agents in 1963. Angela and her mother would then move to Fjellmark, where she lived with her mother until leaving for the Universitet i Trondheim in 1973. Angela would stay at the university until, in 1981, having earned a PhD in Theoretical Mathematics, she would go to work at the National Particle Physics Laboratory in Rhodenheim. Angela would go into politics at the dissolution of the Third Republic with her appointment as Deputy Minister of Science and Research in 1988. She would serve as Minister of Science and Research from 1992 to 1996, when she ran on the party list for the Liberal Democrats. Angela quickly became a rising star in the Fremetian Staatsrat, helping to push through legislation that would open Fremet's borders to the newly formed Nine Dominions of Icholasen. Angela would win the leadership of the Liberal Democrats in 2000, where she would lead the party to one of its most significant gains in its history. She would serve as Statsminister from 2000 to 2008 in Coalition with the Socialist Party (led by Erik Johansen) and formed a coalition government with Charles Michel, then head of the Venstre Party, from 2008 until 2012. Upon Charles' retirement from the Venstre in 2012, Merkel would lose the LD-Venstre coalition to Nikki Oleman, who served as Statsminister from 2012 to 2016 in coalition with the Venstre. Merkel would make a return to the Statsministership in 2016 with the Golden Coalition, a rekindled landmark agreement between the Liberal Democrat and Socialist Parties. Angela would retire from the Staatsrat in 2017 in order to address certain 'personal concerns', naming Ursula von der Leyen as her successor.

Since her retirement from the Statsministership, Angela has traveled promoting Fremet and participating in humanitarian efforts across the globe.

During her 13 year tenure as Statsminister of Fremet, Angela passed through a series of sweeping reforms that would strengthen Fremet's domestic and international position. She spearheaded the passage of legislation that would require businesses to pay a carbon tax on excess emissions in 2003, and greatly increased funding to the sciences and education in Fremet. Angela would go on to invest billions of Francs into numerous fields of scientific research, a policy still in place today. Angela is also credited with the reformation of the Fremetian education system, allowing for a more streamlined process of admission and aid to all students of merit.