Franklin Barvata: Difference between revisions

|office = 25th24th and 27th26th [[Prime Ministers of Great Morstaybishlia|Prime Minister of Great Morstaybishlia]]

|office2 = [[Leader of the Labour Party (MBE)|Leader of the LabourProgress Party]]

|birth_place = Lambertupol, [[KaltarKaltariezh]], [[Great Morstaybishlia]]

|party = Labour[[Progress Party (MBE)|Progress Party]]

'''Franklin Victor Barvata''' (born 7th July 1968) is a [[KaltarKaltariezh|KaltariKaltariz]] politician who is currently serving as [[Wikipedia:Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] of [[Great Morstaybishlia]] and [[Leader of the Labour Party (MBE)|Leader of the LabourProgress Party]] from July 2022. He previously held the position of Prime Minister between 2019 and 2021 and LabourProgress leader between 2017 and 2021. He was Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1999 to 2005. Barvata has been MP for Cavenhelm since 1991. Ideologically, he identifies as progressive left.

Barvata grew up in KaltarKaltariezh and was praised as an academic genius, completing his Post 16 Examination at the age of 14. He attended Lambertupol University at the age of 16. During University, Barvata had joined the LabourProgress Party and volunteered as staff at party lectures, and by 18 he had tried for local council elections but was unsuccessful. When Barvata graduated from University with a Bachelor's in Politics and International Relations, he campaigned and was elected to the House of Representatives as MP for Cavenhelm in 1991; at the time he was the youngest person to ever be elected to the House at the age of 22. During the [[Verlhanz Rothgerus|Rothgerus Administration]] Barvata served in the cabinet. From 2005 to 2012 he held two shadow cabinet positions. Barvata campaigned and won the 2011 Cavenhelm Mayoral Election and subsequently served one term alongside being a Member of Parliament until 2015 where he ushered in major redevelopment of the city's West Harbour Communities, introduced greener methods of transport and established the first vehicle-free zone in the city center.

During the [[Auroran-Pacific War]] Barvata became a prominent LabourProgress politician with his foreign policy rhetoric. He became Leader of the Opposition on his election as LabourProgress Party leader in August 2017, following the sudden death of his predecessor, Arlin Rudiger. Barvata scrutinised the incumbent Prime Minister [[Walter Johannes]] for his [[2018-2019 military intervention in Rodenia]] after the prime minister had promised but was faltering on delivering the 5 Year Post-War Plans. In the [[2019 Great Morstaybishlia General Election|2019 General Election]], Barvata was appointed prime minister and led the LabourProgress Party to its first government in 14 years. He followed through with his election campaign and withdrew from [[Rodenia]] to focus on internal matters, but this led to [[Kirk Santon]] establishing himself as Supreme Archon and breaking the previous governments' agreement. In June 2020 Barvata condemned the [[Union of Commonwealth Alliances|UCA]]-[[NSTO]] Coalition but quickly responded as a mediator to Rodenia's invasion of [[Puntalia]] by sending the Home Fleet and hosting the 2020 PCT Sani Bursil Summit, which prevented war between the UCA-NSTO Coalition and Rodenia's allies of [[North Ethalrian Confederacy|North Ethalria]] and [[Packilvania]] but dampened the fragile relationship between [[Great Morstaybishlia]] and [[Norgsveldet]].

Following the [[July 2020 KaltarKaltariezh attacks]] and the [[August 2020 KaltarKaltariezh police attack]], Barvata initiated a state of emergency which was declared across Great Morstaybishlia to help fight terrorism and civil unrest in eastern KaltarKaltariezh, Barvata enacted Black Alert with a curfew of 21:00 within the conflicted provinces. In October 2020 Barvata came under heavy scrutiny from the Opposition after LabourProgress passed the controversial Anti-Terrorism Bill which gave the cabinet plus executive military command more powers to act against groups or people that fall under an umbrella term of terrorism.

Barvata survived a deadly [[Lantern Tower bombing|rocket launcher attack]] in August 2021, where many others were not as fortunate. He is currently recovering in Ewising, [[Joralesia]]. Due to his absence in politics, [[Riannar Karmer]] successfully rallied enough LabourProgress MPs to [[2021 LabourProgress Party leadership election (MBE)|contest his LabourProgress leadership]], where he was constitutionally and physically unable to run. Karmer succeeded him in September as [[Leader of the Labour Party (MBE)|Leader of LabourProgress]] and prime minister. Barvata was heavily critical of Karmer during his tenure, later contesting his leadership when the Nicki Jenkins report was released, which later resulted in the conviction of Karmer as a [[Wikipedia:Sex offender|sex offender]]. Barvata succeeded uncontested, and assumed leadership and thus prime ministership for a second time on 12 July 2022.

The Barvata family legacy is traced back to the village of Amberiz in Dovia. One of Barvata's paternal great-grandfathers, Morvan Barvata, was born in 1900 from a [[Wikipedia:Breton language|KaltarKaltariz]]-only speaking household, but was sent to an Staynish orphanage after his family were killed in the [[Great War]]. Barvata commonly visited his maternal grandfather Elver, who, after coming from a farming background, became a mechanic and died in 2007.

He was educated at Vinsten's Academy of Secondary Education. From a young age his teachers encouraged his advanced mathematics and science knowledge and he took his Post 16 Exams at the age of 14, scoring high in mathematics, science and business studies but failing his civil engineering course. He attended Lambertupol University two years later at the age of 16 and graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor's in Politics and International Relations. During this time he was a member of the LabourProgress Party and volunteered for lectures, fundraisers and events for the party.

However, during the [[Great Morstaybishlia#Meremaa Civil War|Meremaa Civil War]] and immediately after graduating from Lambertupol University, Barvata founded a localised anti-Delari committee which garnered a lot of support. He ran as a member of LabourProgress in his local constituency, Cavenhelm, and beat the Democratic incumbent Johnery Frawldes in the 1991 General Election. Barvata was a relatively behaved back-bencher.

During the [[Auroran-Pacific War]] Barvata criticised Johannes for two major things; his "use of soldiers like cannon fodder", a very controversial comment that put Barvata in the spotlight of Morstaybishlian politics, and Johannes' handling of the fragmentation of the two Ethalrian nations which put their successor states into a period of recession. Soon thereafter in August 2017 he won the LabourProgress Leader Election. Criticising Johannes on many accounts since the war, Barvata called a motion of no confidence in September 2017 but it failed to reach a majority of seats in the house. When the next election came around, Barvata campaigned across all four constituent countries and put more effort in his campaigning than both Walter Johannes and Paddy Lukamortz combined, later going on to win the [[2019 Great Morstaybishlia General Election]] with LabourProgress netting 910 seats.

After 20 years of being a LabourProgress MP, and 14 of those under Conservative administration where he commented "I have not seen yet one change!", Barvata indicated his intention to seek election as the Mayor of Cavenhelm. On 16 July 2011, Barvata won the election on a second round vote with 55% of the votes, compared to 45% for his Conservative opponent Nico Belaisi. As Mayor he ushered in major redevelopment of the city's West Harbour Communities, introduced greener methods of transport and established the first vehicle-free zone in the city center.