Franklin Barvata

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Barvata in November 2019
24th Prime Minister of Great Morstaybishlia
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 February 2019
Monarch	Lambertus VII
Preceded by	Walter Johannes
Leader of the Labour Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 August 2017
Preceded by	Arlin Rudiger
Secretary of State for the Home Department
In office 1 December 1999 – 4 May 2005
Preceded by	Anders Lynton
Succeeded by	Garet Liespa
Shadow Minister of Health
In office 4 May 2005 – 4 April 2007
Preceded by	Nicola Knose
Succeeded by	Immanuel Hoziama
Shadow Minister of Defence
In office 14 September 2009 – 15 March 2012
Preceded by	Nicola Knose
Succeeded by	Immanuel Hoziama
Mayor of Cavenhelm
In office 16 March 2011 – 2 April 2015
Preceded by	Berin Yusov
Succeeded by	Martin Gonderi
Member of Parliament for Cavenhelm
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1991
Preceded by	Johnery Frawldes
Majority	71,545 (75%)
Personal details
Born	Franklin Victor Barvata (1968-07-07) 7 July 1968 Lambertupol, Caltharus, Great Morstaybishlia
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Sophia Bostin (m. 1995)
Residence	1 Bursil Street
Alma mater	Lambertupol University, Lambertupol
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Franklin Victor Barvata, informally Frankie (born 7th July 1968) is a Caltharusian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Great Morstaybishlia and Leader of the Labour Party since 2019. 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 New Labour and Third Way.

Barvata grew up in Calthia 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 Labour 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. During the 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 Labour politician with his foreign policy rhetoric. He became Leader of the Opposition on his election as Labour 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 General Election, Barvata was appointed prime minister and led the Labour 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 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 Ethalria and Packilvania but dampened the fragile relationship between Great Morstaybishlia and Norgsveldet.

Following the July 2020 Caltharus attacks and the August 2020 Caltharus police attack, Barvata initiated a state of emergency which was declared across Great Morstaybishlia to help fight terrorism and civil unrest in eastern Caltharus, 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 Labour 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.

Political career

During the Meremaa Civil War and immediately after graduating from Lambertupol University, Barvata ran as a member of Labour for the Cavenhelm constituency, and beat the Democratic incumbent Johnery Frawldes in 1991. 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 Labour 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 Labour netting 910 seats.

Premiership

Barvata's first hurdle in office came with Kyrloth. Their annexation of Izria saw the Embask oil rigs off the coast of the Undirnor and Slodhir Islands unlawfully and illegally signed away by King Tegura IV to Sinter Tass, which sparked controversy and outrage. Barvata failed to negotiate with Tass and the later sent a blockade of corvettes to the oil rigs. Norgsveltian Prime Minister Sverdrup hosted a meeting between Tass, Barvata and Kuthern leaders. In the meanwhile one of the oil rigs was blown up on order of Artun Sotarikos and sunk the destroyer MBS Dovia. The incident was known as the Lion of Taren Incident, and in the Osfjord Summit Barvata pressured Sinter Tass's government to pay a sum of 20 billion Kiribs (5% of their GDP) for the oil rigs and in compensation. Barvata later sacked Secretary of State for Foreign and Oversea Territory Affairs Janietta Rubis from the cabinet for her poor handling of the situation, replacing her with Ron Wehrasbi.

In May Barvata flew to Albaburg and signed an agreement with Supreme Archon Kirk Santon to politically isolate Alyunthia in an attempt to demonise the matriarchal ideology that governed the nation. Barvata insinuated that the MBE would remain neutral, unlike Rodenia, who had declared hostilities.

Attempting to resolve the differences between Great Morstaybishlia, Meremaa and Norgsveldet left behind from the Meremaa Civil War, Barvata arranged a summit between himself, Johanna Sverdrup and Njord II in Riberoe, the capital of Dalmaghar. The leaders signed the Riberoe Pact; a non-aggression treaty and delimitation of the Sjøguds Sea, effectively ending a 26 year dispute over the Exclusive Economic Zone of Lanis Island, where Norgsveldet and Great Morstaybishlia have claims on.

Barvata asserted the MBE's position in the 2020 Puntalian Military Intervention. Barvata reassured the world that the MBE would mediate the conflict between the UCA-NSTO coalition and Rodenia after the latter invaded and occupied Puntalia. Barvata received harsh criticism for his direct involvement from political opponents and world leaders.

Barvata passed the Anti-Terrorism Bill, but faced huge scrutiny over its controversy.