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by Fascesia » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:25 am
by Fascesia » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:51 am
by Sebastianbourg » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:03 am
Fascesia wrote:Third way and third position are extremely different ideologies, look what wikipedia says
by Fascesia » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:25 am
Fascesia wrote:Fernando Ponçe de Léon - Partido Tradicionalista
Account Name: Fascesia
Occupation: Senator
Party Position(s):Member
Positions in Government:None
Constituency: N/A
Political Ideology: Religious Fundamentalism, Anti-Communism, Classical Conservatism
Family: Wife - Sancha, Son - Domingo Fernando
Background:
Faith: Roman Catholicism
Likes: Religion, Family Values, History
Dislikes: Islamism, uncontrolled Immigration
Any Questions from the Public to be answered?
by Collatis » Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:09 am
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by Fascesia » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:28 am
Collatis wrote:Senator Fernando Ponçe de Léon, are you, in any way, a descendant of the spanish explorer Ponçe de Léon who visited Florida (not actually looking for the Fountain of Youth)?
by Ikania » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:15 pm
Ikania wrote:Senator Javier Escuella is now open to questions.
by Fascesia » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:51 pm
Ikania wrote::arrow:Ikania wrote:Senator Javier Escuella is now open to questions.
by Ikania » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:44 pm
by The Nihilistic view » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:52 pm
by Oneracon » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:58 pm
Caleb Rios Maestas - Social Democratic Alliance
Account Name: Oneracon
Occupation: Senator, Political Analyst
Party Position(s):
Member
Positions in Government:
None
Constituency: Torrecerro
Political Ideology: Social democracy, environmentalism
Family: Derek Johnson (partner)
Background:Caleb Rios Maestas was born in San Cristobal on February 8, 1982 to Francisco and Angeline Maestas (née Bellerose). Both of his parents were active leftist community organizers in the pre-Junta era and his father was a prominent reporter for Voz del Trabajador, a newspaper closely allied with socialist and trade union movements. Caleb's childhood in the capital was mostly uneventful, the surviving photographs show him as a child living what was a normal Calaverdean life, until the events of September 1984.
When the city of San Cristobal was plunged into darkness during what would later be called El Sábado Negro, so to were the lives of the Maestas family. Caleb's father Francisco, assigned as a journalist to cover a high profile political event, was killed in the attack by the alleged "separatist rebels" that wiped out the entirety of the coalition government's leadership. Fearing for her son's safety, Angeline sent Caleb to his father's family in neighbouring Costa Rica shortly before the emergency military government tightened border controls. After some telephone negotiation with the Canadian Embassy in San Jose, the Canadian government accorded Caleb a visa on compassionate grounds and he was then sent to live with his mother's brother in Ottawa, Canada. Angeline Maestas was never able to leave Calaverde and disappeared under mysterious circumstances at some point during the establishment of the Junta.
Caleb was raised by his Franco-Candian uncle and aunt (Stephane and Jennifer Bellerose) in Ottawa without any knowledge of his parents, besides their absence, and initially struggled with his education due to depression during his childhood. In 1998 the Belleroses finally told 16-year-old Caleb about what happened to his parents and his birthplace of Calaverde. The revelation gave him a renewed sense of purpose with the goal of studying politics to help continue the work his parents did. Before entering university, he applied for Canadian citizenship and became a dual citizen of Canada and Calaverde.
He entered the Political Science department at the University of Toronto in 2000 and threw himself into his studies, focusing as much as he could on the politics of Latin America. Together with a group of like-minded students, he established a Calaverdean human rights watchdog group called Faro ("Beacon") in honour of the English translation ("Tower hill") of his father's hometown of Torrecerro in 2001. Living away from home also gave him the chance to explore his identity a bit more freely and Caleb came out of the closet that same year after he began an ultimately short-lived relationship with Ignacio Cruz, one of the co-founders of Faro.
Through his advocacy work with Faro, and with the gay rights groups EGALE, Caleb found an ally in left-leaning city councillor Olivia Chow. Working together with Chow, Caleb was able to get Toronto City Council to pass a motion authored by Faro recognizing the human rights abuses of the illegitimate Junta regime in Calaverde.
Caleb was active in the UofT Campus New Democrats and began devoting his spare time to the social democratic New Democratic Party, including volunteering in Chow's unsuccessful 2004 campaign as a New Democratic candidate for the federal riding of Trinity--Spadina. After graduation in 2005, he took on a paid position in Chow's office and was one of the employees during her successful 2006 campaign to represent Trinity--Spadina in the House of Commons of Canada.
He returned to the Canadian capital as a member of Chow's political staff and Faro becoming a registered charity that moved with him, relocating to cheap office space in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans. A private members' bill in the House of Commons presented by Chow and NDP leader Jack Layton, her husband, would have called on the Canadian government to recognise the human rights abuses in Calaverde that the hardworking employees at Faro were consistently tabulating. The bill was never given a second reading or advanced to committee which led many of its supporters to believe political pressure had been placed on Prime Minister Stephen Harper by the US government, who had been humiliated when the CIA was revealed that year as the perpetrators of El Sábado Negro.
Caleb was occupied on all fronts in the following years. As the metaphorical guns began to fire on Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government, so to did the actual guns begin to fire in Calaverdean Civil War. In between sitting in on coalition discussions with Chow, Layton, and other NDP higher-ups Caleb joined other Faro employees in flying back and forth to Costa Rica and later to a newly liberated San Cristobal to observe and document the findings of anti-Junta forces as they swept the Generalissimo out of power. He resigned from his job with the NDP in 2009 and relocated Faro's main offices to Costa Rica to be nearer to their work in Calaverde, though the legal headquarters of the charity remained in Canada. Following the establishment of the Provisional Government of Calaverde, Faro's operational headquarters relocated to San Cristobal.
Returning to Canada only twice briefly, to assist in the very successful "Orange Crush" NDP 2011 federal campaign and later to attend the state funeral of Jack Layton that same year, Caleb and the other employees of Faro worked in sometimes hazardous conditions documenting the damage caused by the Junta rule. As the constitutional convention of 2014 began, Caleb settled down in Torrecerro and began construction of a permanent office space for Faro in the town that inspired its name. He began a relationship with Derek Johnson, a political lobbyist from Ottawa that he had convinced to join Faro, and the two moved in together.
He ran in the 2015 election (the first democratic election since 1984) as a candidate for the former Democratic Left party and won by a significant margin, largely because of the work he had done with Faro. With its watchdog mission now served, Caleb and the other directors renamed the group to the Faro Institute and realigned its mission to be a think tank advocating for human rights and other progressive causes within Calaverde. The motto, also shared by Caleb's election campaign, remained the same: "A brighter future for Calaverde".
Faith: Irreligious
Likes: Civil libertarianism, inter-party cooperation, workplace democracy, public transportation, outdoor activities
Dislikes: Religious fundamentalism, American imperialism, union-bashing, greenwashing
Any Questions from the Public to be answered?
- As a social democrat, do you believe that democratic socialism is foreseeable or desirable within our lifetimes - I see the establishment of democratic socialism as desirable, but only time and the will of the people will determine whether Calaverde will achieve such a system in any of our lifetimes. In the meantime I do what I can to gradually and progressively reform the existing capitalist system.
by Radiatia » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:16 pm
Israel Benjamini - Free Democratic Party
Account Name: Radiatia
Occupation: Senator
Party Position(s): Member
Positions in Government: N/A
Constituency: N/A
Political Ideology: A cross between one-nation conservatism and ordoliberalism. Basically liberal-conservatism or progressive conservatism.
Family: Wife, Edith, no children
Background: Israel Benjamini was raised in a Catholic family, although his ancestry is Jewish - though he himself identifies as an atheist. Before running for the Senate he was a successful author, although his later works became increasingly political until such time as he decided it was time to run. He married his wife Edith, who was the heiress of a wealthy business man, although Benjamini himself came from a working class or lower middle class background. As evidenced in his writings, he ran to champion personal freedom, security and social mobility and believed that the FDP were the best vehicle to do so.
Faith: Atheist
Likes: One-nation Toryism, Ordoliberalism, Third Way, Meritocracy, Social Mobility, Literature
Dislikes: Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Religious Fundamentalism, Political Extremism
Any Questions from the Public to be answered? Feel free to ask!
- *ADD QUESTION* - *ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS HERE - COME UP WITH THEM YOURSELF, OR ADD QUESTIONS YOU'VE ANSWERED FROM OTHER PEOPLE ON THE FORUMS*
by Ikania » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:33 pm
by Sebastianbourg » Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:50 pm
Count Frederik Lorentz von Haas
Account Name: Sebastianbourg
Occupation: Naval officer
Positions in Government:Chief-of-Staff of the Calaverdean Navy
Admiral of the Calaverdean Navy
Family: N/A
Background: Count Frederik Antonio Lorentz von Haas was born in was born on 19 June 1962 in Zürich, Switzerland to the Anton Daniël Lorentz, son of the majority shareholder of the Lorentz banking group in Calaverde, and Daphne von Haas, an Austrian-Swiss socialite and member of the untitled nobility. Anton Daniël Lorentz was residing in Zürich due to his position at Credit Suisse while Daphne von Haas had moved from Geneva since only Lorentz was capable of financing her opulent lifestyle replete with soirées and frequent pan-European travel.
By 1967, the marriage between von Haas and Lorentz had been dissolved but they continued to live together in a grandiose mansion in the outskirts of Zürich and went on frequent skiing and sailing holidays (depending on the season of the year) across the European continent and even Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon. These holidays allowed the young child of a banker and a socialite notoriously profligate and imprudent in her spending and supposed investments to develop a love for sailing and the sea which would have an enormous role later in his life.
In December 1975, Anton Daniël Lorentz left Switzerland due to the passing of his father, [Papal] Count Hans Lorentz. Frederik however, remained in Switzerland and entered the Institut auf dem Rosenberg in St Gallen, Switzerland where he lived until the age of eighteen and did not perform excessively well or excessively bad. Following the completion of his secondary studies, Frederik Lorentz entered the Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and read Geography which he completed at age twenty-one with first-class honours.
Having completed his education, Frederik was able to obtain an officer's commission in the Calaverdean Navy through his father's contacts. Moreover, after completing his basic training he would be sent to the United Kingdom as a military attaché to the Calaverdean Embassy in Paris, France.
As a military dictatorship rose to power in Calaverde Lieutenant-Commander Frederik Antonio Lorentz von Haas was stationed in Paris believing the Calaverdean Armed Forces would promptly restore the diplomatic order of the Republic of Calaverde. The sham convention of 1986 in which the leader of the coup d'état was proclaimed President-for-Life caused Lorentz to resign his diplomatic post. He argued he wanted to serve the navy in another way and to that he would have to spend two years at Britannia Royal Naval College and Royal Air Force College for he wanted to develop the naval aviation.
After completing both programmes he asked for a one-year extension to his leave and took up a master's degree in International Strategy and Diplomacy at the London School of Economics. Following the completion of his master's degree he re-entered the Calaverdean Navy and was immediately promoted to captain in recognition of his academic achievements and most-importantly the fact that he was one of the most-educated officers in the armed services of the Republic.
As captain he assumed command of one of the Navy's ships and criss-crossed the entire globe flying Calaverde's naval jack; his dream of playing a vital part in the foundation of Calaverde's military aviation was never to be accomplished. In the year 2004 he reached the rank of rear-admiral and became a military attaché at the Calaverdean Embassy in the Russian Federation. While stationed in Russia he married a twenty-year-old woman from Belarus named Maryja Manionak but they divorced a year later. Furthermore, he used his position in the diplomatic service to supply state secrets to Sebastian van Oldenbarnevelt who publicised these in several conferences and books on Calaverdean economic history.
During the civil war he joined the side of the rebels and led much of the Navy under the anti-Junta banner. Furthermore, he played a vital role in the re-capture of the island of Adrius which had declared itself independent from the Republic of Calaverde. In recognition of his education, expertise, experience and dedication the cause of Calaverdean democracy he was named Chief-of-Staff of the Calaverdean Navy and promoted to the rank of admiral by the Provisional Government established after the ousting of the Junta.
In early 2014, Frederik inherited the family's noble title as Count Anton Daniël Lorentz passed-away; Sebastian van Oldenbarnevelt y Lorentz will be the next count if Frederik dies without issue (there are no restrictions on the sex of the heir).
He is considered the second most-prominent playboy in Calaverde's history behind his nephew, Sebastian van Oldenbarnevelt y Lorentz.
Likes: Calaverdean Armed Forces, Calaverdean nationalism and unionism, Combat re-enactment
Dislikes: Junta, Marxists, Separatists
Any Questions from the Public to be answered?
- What defence policy does the Calaverdean Navy plan to follow? - As the Navy's commanding officer I will preside over a very ambitious defence policy aiming to co-operate with neighbouring nations to eliminate all threats to our security. At this very moment, those partaking in the illegal trade of narcotics are our greatest threat; we will annihilate them.
- How will the Calaverdean Navy react to the threats of separatists? - We vow to maintain the territorial integrity of this country. However, the separatists are free to pursue a political and diplomatic solution to their problems. They are Calaverdean citizens and they can publicise their concerns.
- Can your loyalty to this nation ever be questioned? - No, the recently-passed Calaverdean Nationality Act does not penalise multiple citizenship in any way, manner or form. I hold several passports as reminders of my heritage and genealogical history. I do not and will not ever cease to be a loyal citizen of Calaverde.
by Sebastianbourg » Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:51 pm
by Ainin » Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:31 am
by New Zepuha » Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:31 am
[13:31] <Koyro> I want to be cremated, my ashes put into a howitzer shell and fired at the White House.
by Collatis » Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:53 am
New Zepuha wrote:Ask away, link in sig.
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by Illuminination » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:20 pm
by Ubstijan » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:06 pm
Criston Montesano - Democratic Left
Account Name: Ubstijan
Occupation: Senator
Party Position(s): N/A
Positions in Government: N/A
Constituency: N/A
Political Ideology: Social Democracy, Secular Liberalism
Family: None
Background: Criston Montesano is a native-born son of Calaverde, and was born in 1987. He grew up in a smaller city, and attended public elementary and high schools. He graduated from university with bachelor's degrees in history and political science, and then began working as an intern for the Democratic Left. Before long he had a salaried position in the party, and worked his way up to a position as an assistant to a DL Senator. At the age of 28 he decided to mount his own run for Senator in his hometown after the retirement of the longstanding Senator created an open field. He won the election with a comfortably margin.
Faith: Unitarian Universalism (Deist)
Likes: Equality (gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.), Democratic participation, Separation of Church and State, Welfare State
Dislikes: Monarchy, Discrimination, Fascism, "Laissez-faire capitalism"
Any Questions from the Public to be answered?
by New Zepuha » Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:27 am
[13:31] <Koyro> I want to be cremated, my ashes put into a howitzer shell and fired at the White House.
by New Werpland » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:05 pm
Sebastianbourg wrote:Admiral Frederik Lorentz von Haas is open to questions.
by Arkolon » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:05 pm
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