Delores Gastrell: Difference between revisions

|honorific-suffix = MP

|image = [[File:Delores Gastrell.jpg|200px]]

|term_start = 15 April 1975

|term_end = 23 August 1977

|predecessor1 = [[Melvin Krassady]]{{refn|group=a|name=vacant1|Office vacant between 1 March 1955 and 16 January 1970.}}

|successor1 = [[Steredennig Bishop]]{{refn|group=a|name=vacant2|Office vacant between 15 April 1975 and 2 April 1991.}}

|term_start2 = 11 January 1969

|term_end2 = 21 August 1977

|successor3 = Samminel Bowesca

|majority3 = 61,691 (64%)

|birth_date = 19 June 1918

|death_date = {{death date and age|1981|05|25|1918|06|19|df=yes}}

|death_place =

|spouse = Frank Gastrell (m.1940-1968)

|residence =

|website =

}}

 

Gastrell was diagnosed with [[wikipedia:Idiopathic giant-cell myocarditis|giant cell myocarditis (GCM)]] during her premier in May 1977, and sought to find a replacement as soon as possible. Gastrell quickly came to the view that [[Nancy Jarsdel]] would be the best choice as her successor, and gave her valuable behind-the-scenes backing. She let it be known that if she recovered she would be willing to serve as a member of a Jarsdel cabinet. She had earlier favoured Luke Rurin, but changed her mind when she learned from the Morstaybishlian ambassador to Salovia, that their administration was uneasy at the prospect of Rurin as Prime Minister, and from her chief whip that Rurin, seen as a right-winger, would alienate moderate voters.