Commission Nominations, June 2023

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

Due to term limits, Premier Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker (Spain) is term-limited.

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 NOW open and will close at 23:59 GMT on June 12th, 2023.

[Elthize]

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Candidate Name: Wirt Harland
Home Nation: The State of Elthize
Office(s) sought: Internal Affairs Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): Yes
Eurogroup Affiliation: None
Biography: A politician of the Labour Party's moderate wing, Harland was an assembly member from April 2008 until June 2009, when he became a senator until his retirement in April 2022, winning in 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2018 elections. During his time as a Senator, he became the main figure pushing for the impeachment of the former president, Archibald Franklin. He was one of the biggest advocates for Elthize's ascension to the European Union. He was the presidential candidate of the opposition in 2018 and was defeated by the incumbent Greenwich Grimwald by a minuscule margin. Some Elthics still consider him to be a possible successor to the presidency after Grimwald.

Harland assumed office as the Internal Affairs Commissioner on January 15, 2023, and is seeking a second term as the Internal Affairs Commissioner. On his first term, Harland submitted a constitutional amendment that would put unopposed candidates in commission elections in a referendum to see whether the member states approved of the candidate. He also successfully managed to strike out a deal between the United Duchies, Reitzmag and Svarna Surya after conflict arose between the three nations. Harland also opposed Guthrun Wond's rebellion against the member state of Gadalland and Aspern and initiated the Fourth European Leaders Summit on May 2023 alongside Premier Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker.

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[BrumBrum]

Candidate Name:Ricarda Schmitz
Home Nation:United Duchies
Office(s) sought:Premier Comissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N):N
Eurogroup Affiliation:None
Biography:A politician fed up of the status quo she believes the European Union is a force for good if it can just be administrated effectively and unleash its power in partnership with its members. She is critical of the activitity of the comissioners who she sees as having been inactive and achieving nothing especially over EDA funding of which none has been approved or gone through and critical with the openness of the comission which has not communicated reasons for its votes on applications making it impossible for any issues that are potentially in applications to be resolved or to assess whether applications were judged fairly. She wants to get the EDA moving its funds.

[Istkalen]

Candidate name: Akem Linek

Home nation: Istkalen

Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner

Incumbent: N

Eurogroup Affiliation: None

Biography: Akem Linek, currently Istkalen's Deputy Councillor, is the leader of the country's small but defiant conservative-liberal movement. He seeks to take his small-government, anti-corruption ideology to the Commission.

[Czech Slavia]

Candidate Name: Sofie Čikarová
Home Nation: Democratic Republic of Czech Slavia
Office(s) sought: Premier Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: EF
Biography: Born in 1979, Čikarová studied Journalism at Charles University. She began her career as a writer for the Communist Party of Czech Slavia (predecessor to the Socialist Republican Party) 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. She ran for the position of Premier Commissioner in the Aug/Sep 2020 elections and ended up third behind Merkel and Trympov. In December 2020 she was removed from the Council of the Czech News Agency for political reasons during the government of Michal Plachta, but she was reinstated to the Council later in the same month, after the Socialist Republican Party lost confidence in Plachta's government, withstood a coup attempt and established a new government led by president Albína Reiserová.

Čikarová ran for the position of Premier Commissioner again in May/June 2021 and ended up winning, becoming a Premier Commissioner. She has sought second term in October 2021 and won again. During her terms she passed the creation of the European Development Agency, the European Budget for the for the fiscal year of 2021-2022 and passed minimum standards regarding establishing and terminating employment relationship.

After her second term as Premier Commissioner ended Čikarová was appointed by the government of Czech Slavia to be a Councillor in August 2022, replacing Václav Kohout. She proposed the Prohibition of Private Prisons, Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners and Minimum Standards for Correction Officers Act, which has been rejected by the European Council.

[Inquista]

Candidate Name: Tomáš "Tomo" Krejčí
Home Nation: Inquista
Office(s) sought: Foreign Affairs Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): N
Eurogroup Affiliation: EF
Biography: Krejčí was born in the small Czechslavonic town of Rudolfov in 1980. Upon completing his high school education, Krejčí went on to work as a manual labourer at the nearby Lišov Mine. After two years of manual labour, Krejčí was trained to become a mining machine operator. After another two years, in 2002, Krejčí's prowess and efficiency with the mine's machinery led him to be promoted to lead machine operator on the site, which is a position Krejčí has dutifully and loyally held ever since.

More than two decades of operating heavy machinery has taken its toll on Krejčí's body and he is now looking to spend his time serving the European people. Krejčí cites having an "affair" with a "foreign" woman as making him a competent FA Commissioner, and he touts his long-distance relationship with Archbishop Mikaela Kligenberg as providing him with international relations experience. Despite being a Czech citizen residing in Czech Slavia, Krejčí has been granted citizenship and sponsorship from Inquista to run as a candidate.

[Inquista]

Nominations are now closed. These are the candidates to the European Commission:

For the Office of Premier Commissioner

Sofie ČIKAROVÁ (Czech Slavia)
Akem LINEK (Istkalen)
Ricarda SCHMITZ (United Duchies)

For the Office of Internal Affairs Commissioner

Wirt HARLAND (Elthize)

For the Office of Foreign Affairs Commissioner

Tomáš KREJČÍ (Inquista)