Cathryn Gargano

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First Minister Cathryn Gargano
Gargano in 2023
First Minister of the Provisional Government
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 May 2023
Premier	Cleveland Durand
Deputy	Gabriel Le Druillenec
Preceded by	Position established
Leader of the People's Reform Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 October 2021
Preceded by	Sally-Anne McCarthy
Personal details
Born	Cathryn Judith Kipling (1975-01-17) January 17, 1975 Kimmeridge, Wealden
Political party	People's Reform
Spouse	Johnny Gargano (m. 1999)
Relations	Isaac Kipling (brother)
Children	2

Cathryn Judith Kipling Gargano (born 17 January 1975) is a Wealdenite politician who has served as the First Minister of the Wealdenite Provisional Government since 2023. Since October 2021, Gargano has been the leader of the People's Reform Party. She is known in Wealden as a pro-reform, anti-corruption politician, having served in multiple local government positions from a young age.

Gargano grew up in Thomaria and attended East Shores Institute in her home town of Kimmeridge. In 1993, she started attending Moyen-Orient University, graduating with a degree in politics and international relations. After serving for several years as a local councillor in her hometown, Gargano was elected as one of the members of the Federal Council in Cappedore in 2010 to 2023.

Early life

Gargano was born in Kimmeridge, in the state of Thomaria, on 17 January 1975. Her father, Thomas Kipling, was a member of the Thomarian Liberation Front, and had been kept under custody by the Cappedorite state at the time of her birth. He was eventually sentenced to eighteen years in prison. Gargano has stated that for her entire life, she has still not been able to track down or contact her father. As a child, Gargano enjoyed a middle-class upbringing with her mother, Maria Morrisson-Kipling.

At the age of 16, Gargano joined the People's Reform Party. She became deeply involved with the party on a local, becoming a youth officer, chair of the Young PRP in her area. In 1993, at the age of 18, Gargano started studying politics and international relations at Moyen-Orient University, and graduated in 1997. She reportedly took on the course with a w:Foundation year, having recieved below average grades during her A-Levels.

Political career

Early career

After graduating, Gargano contested and won a local council seat in Kimmeridge in 1997, where she served up until 2010, when she ran for Federal Council in Thomaria (now the Provisional Congress of Wealden). Gargano was known as a steadfast and passionate politician, who viewed the growing CSDP state with suspicion, especially after the election of Austin Merrill and Maya Murray respectively.

Federal Council

Gargano served as one of three federal councillors from the state of Thomaria, with the other two being members of a Thomarian secessionist party. On 23 January 2020, her brother Isaac Kipling, who served in the Gemotern, was killed by a knife attack during one of his constituency surguries. He was a member of the CSDP, and Gargano grew infuriated at the party after they failed to give any form of recognition to her brother. At Kipling's constituency's by-election, the CSDP did not concentrate any campaigns there, and therefore the seat was lost to the Conservative Union.

Leader of the People's Reform Party

In October 2021, Gargano ran for leader of the People's Reform Party. Although initially she had one opponent, they were forced to withdraw on personal grounds, and Gargano won the election unopposed.

The Homradska

In 2023, mass protests, riots, and demonstrations broke out across Wealden's predecessor state of Cappedore. Gargano became a leader in the campaign to force Murray and Merrill to resign.

On 14 May 2023, the CSDP suffered a mass defection of its Gemotern members to independent posts or opposition parties. Gargano siezed the opportunity and immediately called for a vote of no confidence, which she won.

Provisional Government

On 15 May 2023, Gargano and members of the Gemotern successfully withdrew the 2001 concordat of Cappedore and replaced it with a 'provisional concordat.' On 18 May 2023, the documents of provision were signed, making Gargano the provisional First Minister and Cleveland Durand the premier of the provisional government.

Personal life

In 1999, she married Wealdenite wrestler Johnny Gargano. The couple have had 2 children, Diana and Orlando.

In a 2022 interview, Gargano stated that she still felt "deeply hurt" by her brother's assassination in 2020 and the government's inaction to prevent such an atrocitiy from ever happening again.