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'''Žarís Nevran Alandar''' (alternately spelled '''Zharis Nevran Alandar''', born 2 January 1975) is the current [[Cabinet of Tavaris#Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] of the [[Tavaris|Kingdom of Tavaris]], serving in that position since February 18th, 2021. In this position, Nevran Alandar also serves as President of the [[Cabinet of Tavaris#Council of State|Council of State]], which is similar to a privy council in other monarchies. From 2017 until 6 March 2021, she was Deputy Prime Minister under [[Shano Tuvria]] and also held the portfolio of Minister of International Trade and Development. She is the leader of the Democratic National Party (DNP), the leading center-to-center-right political party in Tavaris. Like her predecessor, Nevran Alandar is considered to be in the "centrist" camp of the DNP and is generally identified as neoliberal.
Nevran Alandar assumed the office of Prime Minister after her predecessor resigned to serve as Secretary-General of the [[International Forum]]. 46 years old at the time of her election, she is the youngest woman, and second-youngest person overall, to serve as Prime Minister of Tavaris. She is also noted as an Aldanic Games gold medalist in volleyball; she and her team took home the gold at the 1992 Summer Aldanic Games held in [[Nuvrenon]]. Nevran Alandar was 17 years old at the time. She also competed at the 1994 Summer Aldanic Games in Stromharad, [[Asendavia]].
==Early Life==
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Nevran Alandar was raised by her parents, Nari and Daronal Nevran Alandar, in Nakaš, a city in southeastern Tavaris on the opposite side of the Strait of Kings from the capital, Zaram. Her father was a teacher, while her mother was at that time an elected member the Nakaš provincial legislature. Her mother, Nari Nevran Alandar, would later be elected to the national Diet and serve as a member of the Cabinet. Žarís was known for being athletic in school, in particular playing football (soccer) and volleyball. With Nevran Alandar on the team, her secondary school Nakaš Country Day Academy won the national volleyball championships in 1992 and 1993.
For university, Nevran Alandar attended the University of the Aequator, a small, private liberal-arts university, on an athletic scholarship, where she played volleyball all four years while studying for a degree in economics. She graduated in 1997 with honors. Upon graduating, she began her mandatory 3-year period of conscription in the Royal Tavari Armed Forces. She served in the Royal Tavari Air Force as a military police officer, spending the majority of her conscription at Sinajärv Air Base in Rodoka. After her service, she worked as a volleyball coach at the University of the Aequator from 2000 until 2005, winning national collegiate championships in 2001 and 2002. From 2005 until her election to the Diet in 2012, she worked as a policy analyst and later fellow at the Tavari Institute for Economics, a think tank associated with the Democratic National Party.
==Member of the Diet==
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