Vellin Rinardel
The Drightly Vellin Rinardel FP | |
|---|---|
 Rinardel in 2021 | |
| Home Elderthane | |
| In office 21 July 2021 – 12 July 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Franklin Barvata |
| Preceded by | Horace Lanx |
| Succeeded by | Arlin Klements |
| Thane for Security | |
| In office 1 April 2021 – 21 July 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Rachel Quince |
| Succeeded by | Vince Vackalroy |
| Thane of State for Crime, Policing & the Fire Service | |
| In office 27 February 2019 – 1 April 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Eddie Hamper |
| Succeeded by | Kit Groanings |
| Folkspart (FP) for Riverbridge and the Lowboroughs, Sani Bursil | |
| Assumed office 29 November 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Jenny Furst |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vellin Rinardel 11 October 1956 Knights Corridor Hospital, Staynes |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Spouse | Maxine Croft (m. 1979) |
| Residence | Riverbridge, Sani Bursil |
Vellin Fischan Rinardel (born 11 October 1956) is a Staynish politician who was Home Elderthane from 2021 to 2022, taking over from Horace Lanx after the Lanx sex scandal. Vellin was previously Thane for Security since 2021 and has represented the Riverbridge and the Lowboroughs, Sani Bursil constituency since the 2017 general election.
Born to a lower-middle class family, Rinardel attended Grendle School and studied at Torswell University, where he studied law. Working as a corporate lawyer for over thirty years, he became a marketing director for YentonFoods and Billi Recruitment Ltd. He was elected as a councillor in the Fankia Shire Council for the division of Penwich Town in 2014 and went on to chair the council's Housing Development Committee.
Rinardel unsuccessfully attempted selection to contest the Civic's Calverham, Sani Bursil constituency in 2012 and 2014. He was instead selected to contest the Riverbridge and the Lowboroughs, Sani Bursil constituency in 2016 by the Progress Sorting Committee, resigning as a councillor in Fankia in December. Rinardel ousted the incumbent Folkspart Jenny Furst by 1,295 votes, later bolstering his majority in the 2019 election by 19,418 and in the 2021 election by another 7,453.
Rinardel was one of two survivors in the Lantern Tower bombing, alongside Franklin Barvata; suffering a minor lung collapse, a broken wrist and a fractured hip bone. He returned to work five weeks later.