Maya Murray

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The Right Honourable Maya Murray MG
Official portrait, 2022
Leader of the Unionist Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 May 2023
Preceded by	Position created
Chancellor of Cappedore
In office 8 June 2018 – 14 May 2023
President	Austin Merrill
Deputy	Thomas Coleman
Preceded by	Ken Yates
Succeeded by	Position abolished
General Secretary of the CSDP
In office 7 June 2018 – 20 May 2023
Preceded by	Ken Yates
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
In office 7 December 2016 – 8 June 2018
Chancellor	Ken Yates
Preceded by	Michael Brierley
Succeeded by	Lionel Hudson
Chairman of the CSDP
In office 14 April 2011 – 11 November 2015
Chancellor	Cleveland Durand Ken Yates
Preceded by	Cleveland Durand
Succeeded by	Keir Crosland
Minister of State for Transport
In office 1 July 2010 – 14 June 2011
Preceded by	Sean Syms
Succeeded by	Alexander Crosland
MG for Phoenix
In office 4 May 2010 – 14 May 2023
Preceded by	Matt Howard
Majority	17,283 (2018)
Personal details
Born	Dominika Maya Muverovich (1970-06-27) June 27, 1970 Nassau, Ivyland
Political party	Social Democrat
Children	3
Education	Blackpool Grammar School
Alma mater	Chepstow University

Dominika Maya Murray (née Muverovich; born June 27th, 1970) is a Cappedorite politician, diplomat, writer, and photographer who served as Chancellor of Cappedore from June 2018 to May 2023. She has been Member of the Gemotern for Phoenix, Thomaria, since 2010. During her premiership, she has faced major problems with Thomarian seperatists, especially in her current town of residence, where she has lived for over 20 years. Murray is Cappedore's first female Chancellor, and is the first woman to have held more than three of the Great Offices of State since former president Mary Jane Revie.

On 14 May 2023, she was forced to resign after the 2023 coup.

Murray grew up in Ivyland and attended Blackpool Grammar School after having moved away from Nassau at the age of four. After finishing a full two years of sixth form there, she went on to study Politics at Chepstow University in Shinrarta. After graduating in 1991, she worked at the Bank of Cappedore and the Association for Payment Clearing Services. She also served as a councillor for Ulysi in Shinrarta. After two unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the Gemotern, she was elected as the MG for Phoenix after a by-election in the constituency, and has held a strong majority since. From 2010 to 2018, Murray held several roles in the cabinets of Cleveland Durand and Ken Yates respectively. She was also Chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 2011 to 2015.

Following the formation of the coalition government following the 2010 general election, Murray was appointed Minister of State for Transport and later Chairman but gave up her first role in 2011. She soon became the Secretary of Foreign Affairs following the CSDP and CLU's narrow election victory in 2015. During her tenure she pursued reform of Cappedorite foreign affairs policy, implemented a more liberal line of immigration policy including the inclusion of lesser recognised religions in national visa applications. She also oversaw the introduction of an elected Board of Foreign Affairs, the deportation of Kiaran Graves in a joint effort with the Ministry of National Affairs and the creation of the College of Immigration and Human Migration. Murray opposed the unsuccessful Isles Out of The Union campaign for the United Isles to leaved the United Republic, which failed after losing the 2017 United Isles Seperation Referendum.

Murray stood the CSDP leadership election to succeed Ken Yates, who resigned after it was discovered that he was supporting the trafficking of illegal substances into Cappedore after the release of the Slade Inquiry. She instantly began the process of integrating the United Isles with the United Republic, triggering Article 100 in June 2018. The same month, she announced a snap general election, with the hopes of clearing the CSDP's name and reassuring the people that the party didn't reflect the mistakes of Yates.

Early life, family, and education

Murray was born in Nassau, Greater Ivyland, on June 27th, 1970, to former Federal Councillor and member of the Administrative Council Alexander Nikolai Muverovich and Olivia-Jane Duffy, a local lawyer and probate soilictor from Elizabeta. Being born in a political household, Murray often found it difficult to escape political ongoings and happenings, and she rarely saw her father, so for the majority of her childhood and early teenage years, she would be living with her mother. However, Duffy died suddenly in October of 1983 after being in a car accident with Murray, who was 13 at the time, involved. Greatly affected by the sudden death of her mother, Murray became closed off and quiet, and faced additional stress when she had to consistently move around with her father.

By the time Murray was 15, her grandparents had moved back to Cappedore from Great Morstaybishlia, and offered to care for and look after Murray in her later teenage years. She moved to Blackpool, in Ivyland with them, where she attended Blackpool Grammar School Sixth Form studying Politics, History, and Sociology. After completing her two years in sixth form and passing all three subjects, Murray moved away to Chepstow, Shinrarta, where she would attend a university course in Politics and International Relations.

Early career

Before her entry into politics, during her years at university, Murray became leader of Chepstow University's politics society, and she also worked for the local CSDP in Shinrarta, becoming a campaigner, and working with local MG Iain Cromwell.

Entry into politics

Councillor

Murray graduated from Chepstow University in 1991, with an undergraduate degree in Politics and International Relations. After graduating, she became fully integrated with Shinrarta's local CSDP committee, and ran for a by-election in the local Chepstow Council seat of Chepstow South following the resignation of former Chancellor Frederick White. She won the election with a majority of 674. According to Chepstow Council leader Jane Sufford, Murray was a "hardworking, passionate individual" whos "aspiration was to become Secretary of Foreign Affairs some day."

During her time as a local councillor, she met the MG for Phoenix, Matt Howard, during a CSDP rally in Shinrarta City Center.

Chancellor (2018 - 2023)

Divisions in the Welfare Coalition

Assassination attempt

On 14 September 2020, on a visit to the Thomarian capital of Helkani, Murray was shot at by Thomarian seperatist Alexander Durovigria. She was shot once in the upper right arm, with the second shot barely missing her hip, and was taken away from the scene safely without harm.

Vote of No Confidence (Gemotern)

On 15 December 2021, CCU leader Ellis Hampson called for a surprise vote of no confidence in Murray's government, after firmly believing that he had managed to influence the CLU that the CSDP were planning to start blocking liberal-based bills. However, Hampson had failed to realise that the CSDP had just allowed a CLU bill to pass firmly through the Gemotern earlier in the same day. Once the vote actually occured on 19 December, it failed massively, with many of Hampson's own CCU MPs rebelling against the motion.

Public opinion

At the beginning of her premiership, Murray was viewed with suspicion by both the opposition in the Gemotern and the populace itself. Despite this, during the 2018 general election campaign, Vikki Slade assured the voterbase that Murray had very little knowledge of the scandal surrounding Ken Yates and urged voters to continue supporting the welfare coalition.