Nina Boyko
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The Honourable Nina Boyko MP | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| 16th Prime Minister of Wealden | |
| Assumed office 21 February 2021 | |
| President | Mykhailo Marchenko |
| Deputy | Arseniy Antonov |
| Preceded by | Andrii Vasylyk |
| Leader of the Worker's Labour Party | |
| In office 21 February 2021 – 24 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Andrii Vasylyk |
| Succeeded by | Arseniy Antonov |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 22 July 2020 – 21 February 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Andrii Vasylyk |
| Preceded by | Aleks Marchenko |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Gavrilyuk |
| Member of Wealdenite Parliament | |
| Assumed office 19 July 2008 | |
| Constituency | Pivdenny |
| Majority | 14,874 (2020) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nina Melaniya Holub September 15, 1983 Brahma, Wealden |
| Political party | Worker's Labour |
| Spouse | Ivan Boyko (m. 2007) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Brahma |
Nina Melaniya Boyko (born 15 September 1983) is a Wealdenite politician who has been serving as the sixteenth Prime Minister of Wealden and Leader of the Worker's Labour Party since 2021. Under her predecessor Andrii Vasylyk, she served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Wealden from 2020 to 2021. She has been the member of parliament for Pivdenny, in Korlandi, since 2008, at the age of 24. She is the youngest women to be elected to parliament in Wealdenite history. Boyko became prime minister after the sudden death of Vasylyk on 9 January 2021.
Boyko was born in Brahma to parents of Staynish-Wealdenite descent who immigrated to Cereneria from Aurora in the 1970s. She was educated at South Zoryane College, studied philosophy and politics at university in Great Morstaybishlia, and earned an honorary scholarship in political science from the University of Zoryane in 2017. After graduating from university, she moved back to Wealden, and joined the Worker's Labour Party, standing as their candidate in the 2008 Pivdenny by-election, and winning the seat, taking it from the Moderates. Politically, she identifies as a democratic socialist.
Upon her ascension to the role of Prime Minister following the 2021 WLP leadership election, Boyko was instrumental in continuing the mandate of her predecessor, however she faced consistent calls to announce a general election following accusations that she was ruling without a democratic mandate. Her strong left-wing political positions, particularly on the economy, made her relatively unpopular with the people, and in October 2022 she faced a vote of no confidence, however her party stood strongly behind her, using their 80-seat majority earned after Andrii Vasylyk's victory in 2020 to their advantage. In 2022, a faction of the WLP broke away to form what is today known as the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which caused a political scandal between Boyko and faction leader Timur Petrenko and took 27 seats away from the WLP's majority. Boyko will be one of the only leaders in Wealdenite history to not face a single election, promising to resign her post in March 2024, a few months prior to the general election that same year. She announced that her formal resignation as leader would occur on 24 March 2024, but that she would still continue to carry out her duties as prime minister until the election.
Early life
Nina Melaniya Holub was born on 15 September 1983 in Brahma, Wealden, approximately 20 miles from the nation's capital of Zoryane. She was daughter to a Morstaybishlian philosophy teacher, Roseann Trigarta (born 1958) and an industrial technician, Oleksiy Holub (1958 - 2011). Both of her parents lived in Great Morstaybishlia before moving to Wealden. She has two older brothers; one of them, Valentyn Holub (born 1979) is a popular and well-renowned journalist for the popular Wealdenite newspaper, The Sunday Herald (Wealdenite: Sandi Gerald). For the first nine years of her life, her family lived in Partrenki, Wealden. Her parents were members of the now-defunct Socialist Party of Wealden, and they were peace campaigners who met at a conference as teenagers in the 1970s.
When Boyko was nine, her family moved deeper into the central heart of Zoryane. Boyko attended Zoryana Tsentralna Srednya School (Zoryane Central High School), a state-owned comprehensive school before moving to Serhiy Grammar when she was thirteen, and then to South Zoryane College when she was fourteen.
Early career and political activities
Boyko joined the Worker's Labour Party upon her return from Great Morstaybishlia in 2005 upon graduating from university. Before running as an MP, Boyko worked full-time as a member of bar staff at a local bar in Shefiya, while becoming a rampant campaigner and lobbyist for the WLP. In 2006, she was elected as the chair of the Young WLP Movement during their conference in Zoryane. In January 2007, she moved 60 miles east to Pivdenny, where she met Ivan Boyko (born 1979) whom she would marry that following October. Following the death of the Moderate MP, Nazar Tkachuk, in 2008, Boyko ran in the 2008 Pivdenny by-election. Her charisma, youthful charm, and sense of humour made her popular with the local community, and she won the by election with a majority of 762, a number which has grown larger and larger ever since.