Vellin Rinardel
The Profound Estimable Vellin Rinardel MP | |
|---|---|
 Rinardel in 2021 | |
| Home Secretary | |
| Assumed office 21 July 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Franklin Barvata |
| Preceded by | Horace Lanx |
| Minister for Security | |
| In office 1 April 2021 – 21 July 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Rachel Quince |
| Succeeded by | Vince Vackalroy |
| Minister of State for Crime, Policing & the Fire Service | |
| In office 27 February 2019 – 1 April 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Eddie Hamper |
| Succeeded by | Kit Groanings |
| MP for Bendles and Swake, Bursil | |
| Assumed office 29 November 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Lorie Ferist |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vellin Rinardel 11 October 1956 Hospital of West Skaul and Knights Corridor, Staynes |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Maxine Croft (m. 1979) |
| Residence | Bendles and Swake |
Vellin Fischan Rinardel (born 11 October 1956) is a Staynish politician who has been Home Secretary since July 2021, taking over from Horace Lanx after the Lanx sex scandal. Vellin was previously Minister for Security since 2021 and has represented the Bendles and Swake, Bursil constituency since the 2017 general election.
Born to a lower-middle class family, Rinardel attended Greenhill School and studied in Knights College and Skaul 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 Aurama Province Council for the division of Whiteansty and Bellerpits Town in 2014 and went on to chair the council's Housing Development Committee.
Rinardel unsuccessfully attempted selection to contest the Democratic Party's South Skaul and Velveton constituency in 2012 and 2014. He was instead selected to contest the Bendles and Swake, Bursil constituency in 2016 by the Labour Sorting Committee, resigning as a councillor in Aurama in December. Rinardel ousted the incumbent MP Lorie Ferist 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.