ISSUE 1THURSDAY, 02 JULY, 2015GENERAL ELECTION CALLED!
Current Chancellor, Mark Foster, launching his parties campaign.
Written By:
Arthur Jessop, Political Editor
This morning, the Chancellor travelled to Palazzo Reale, to submit his recommendation to the King for Senate to be dissolved, triggering an election. His Majesty this morning signed a declaration calling a general election.
The Right Honourable Chancellor of Edom, Mr. Mark Foster (44) was born in 1971 and raised in the city of Statelli. Upon completion of high school, he went on to attend the University of Themos, graduating three years later with a BA (Hons) in Politics. Following his degree, Mr. Foster went on to become a political journalist for some news agencies, before moving to become a political editor for a national news channel. In 2002 Mr. Foster joined the Centre Party, and ran for a seat in the Senate for his local city.
After winning his seat, Mr. Foster was successful in winning a second term for the seat. During his second term as Senator, Mr. Foster was successful in appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice. Mark continued to hold this position for three years, before being moved to as the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs - this was considered as a large boost for Mark's political career (with the Secretary Foreign Affairs being one of the four Great Offices of State).
In 2012, Jim Endslow, resigned as Leader of the Centre Party, this triggered an election for a new party leader. Mark stood for party leader, was expected to come in third. However, after the first round of voting, he emerged as second, which sent him into a second, head to head round with Timothy Spurton, who was favourite to win. Mark's campaign focussed on economic growth, political accountability, removal of poverty and furthering education. This platform saw him be elected as the Centre Party Leader, with a majority of 68.4%.
In 2013, the Centre Party was victorious in the general election, where Mark became Chancellor. He has announced his intention to continue as Party Leader and run for his second and final term as Chancellor.
The second Candidate who announced that they would be continung to as Party Leader as running for Chancellor is Senator Ella Thorning (65). Ella has been a Senator for almost 25 years. Before starting her political career, she was a primary school principal. Ella has been the Leader of Liberal Party since September 2008, and led the party to have their biggest election win in 2013, gaining 105 seats of 795, which made them the second largest political party.
Ella has been a strong advocate for developing the economy of the country, through increasing exports and decreasing imports. She has spoken at several events by the National Union of Farmers, on how funds should be increased to aid productivity. Ella has worked hard to gain the support of trade unions throughout country, and spoken on how the minimum wage should be raised in line with inflation, which would see an increase of ƒ2.00 from the current ƒ6.50.
Since August 2010 Ella has been a member of the National Union for Education, which has seen her gain a honorary Masters Degree in Education.