Speaker and Deputy Speaker Election, Jan/Feb 2021

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The Speaker of the European Council has tendered his resignation, which will become effective immediately upon the election of a new Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the European Council.

The Speaker and Deputy Speaker terms last for 18 months, and their roles involve keeping and maintaining Council records, keeping order within the Council chamber, and making sure Council procedures run smoothly and properly according to the law.

Candidates for the role of Speaker or Deputy Speaker should enter thus:

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Candidate Name:
Councillor country:
Intended Position?: (Speaker/Deputy Speaker)
Incumbent?: (Y/N)
Experience:

NOMINATIONS start NOW and end at 23:59 on January 27th. Speaker candidates will then DEBATE until 23:59 on February 3rd. A VOTE will then be held for BOTH Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and will last until 23:59 on February 10th.

[Alkharya]

Candidate Name: Aylin Gökçen
Councillor country: Alkharya
Intended Position?: Speaker or Deputy Speaker
Incumbent?: N
Experience: Member of the provincial parliament of Alfur Province (2006-2008), Member of the regional parliament of Alfur (2008-2012), Member of Kurultay (2012-2018), Minister of Justice (2018-2020) 1st Councillor of Alkharya (2020-present)

[Spain]

Candidate Name: Donald Tusk
Councillor country: Spain
Intended Position?: Deputy Speaker
Incumbent?: N
Experience: Vice-Chancellor of Germanium from 2015-2019, Member of the Regional parliament of Germanium (2005-2019), Councillor of the Germanium's Government (2009-2015), 2nd Councillor of Spain (2019-present).

[Inimicus]

Candidate Name: Hetty Tilki
Councillor country: The Empire of Inimicus
Intended Position?: (Speaker/Deputy Speaker) Speaker
Incumbent?: (Y/N) N
Experience: Cllr Tilki has served as Councillor for Inimicus for the past six month, having been extensively tutored by former Councillor and ex-Commissioner Sir Augustus Barrington. Since then, Cllr Tilki has had a reputation for direct and proper argumentation, impeccable manners, and a keen political mind.

[Fremet]

Candidate Name: Charles Michel
Councillor country: Fremet
Intended Position?: Speaker
Incumbent?: N
Experience:

Charles Michel was born in 1975 to a pair of artisan furniture makers in Northern Blumenfeld. In 1997, he graduated from the Universitet i Rhodenheim with a BS in Psychology. He then graduated from the Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Trondheim in 1999, receiving his Federal Bar Certificate in 2000. Charles had been active in Fremetian politics since he joined the Ung-Venstre in secondary school. After working as a public defender in Trøndelag from 2000 to 2003, he was selected by the Venstre to run for the national party list in the 2004 election. In 2008, he was elected as leader of the Venstre Party. He would form a coalition government with Angela Merkel, with him serving as Deputy Statsminister until 2012. He would not run again in the 2012 General Election, instead going to work at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of his home province of Blumenfeld.

Charles Michel was selected Fremet’s Councillor to the European Union by the Staatsrat in 2016 (an arrangement met by the Høyre-Venstre coalition government), following the arrest and subsequent conviction of former councilor Benito Ôst on corruption charges. Michel would retain his appointment as Councillor under Nikki Oleman’s administration and into the Merkel and Von der Leyen administrations. In 2016, then newly-appointed Councilor Michel would become a founding member of the European Progressive Alliance, serving as its first Party Secretary.

Michel would spearhead Fremet’s continued cooperation and integration with the EU, building lasting political alliances with nations across Europe.

Michel was elected to serve as Councilor to the European Union by the people of Fremet in 2020, becoming Fremet's first nationally elected Councilor under the Elected and Accountable Act.

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Nominations are now closed. The candidates are thus:

Speaker
Aylin GÖKÇEN (Alkharya - non-inscrit)
Charles MICHEL (Fremet - EPA)
Hetty TILKI (Inimicus - non-inscrit)

Deputy Speaker
Aylin GÖKÇEN (Alkharya - non-inscrit)
Donald TUSK (Spain - EPA)