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Inevan Politicians
Ace Phillips (born 29 March, 1967) is an Inevan politician serving as the eighth Prime Minister of Ineva since January 2021. He is a member and Leader of the Party (LP) of Kamat, a Jewish, conservative political party that has been the Primary Party of the Inevan Parliament also since January 2021. Phillips was born in Kibbutz Mavaga to Beni Phillips, an Inevan-Moroccan construction worker, and Aziza Phillips, a retired Inevan-Israeli primary school teacher. Phillips is an only child. He has one daughter, Elyse Phillips, whom he had with his late wife, Via Phillips.
Phillips largely grew up living beneath the national poverty line and subsequently disregarded his early studies. Only in high school did he take a more active role in academics, becoming Student Council President in grade 10. He studied History and Communication Studies at Ashvekov University, graduating with a master's degree in the former field in 1990. He became an intern and personal assistant of Ashvekov mayor Ya'akov Meiri in 1992. Phillips became a registered voter of the Jewish, center-right Devaz political party in the same year, and later became the Vice Member of Parliament (VMP) for it in 1996. Phillips served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Devaz from 2001 to 2010, before the party dissolved and was succeeded by Kamat. During this time, he was one of the few Devaz MPs to push for cannabis legalization, arguing it "an effective compromise" that would contribute to the end of the opioid epidemic. Phillips served as mayor of Ashvekov from 2011 to 2015 as a member of Nav Matel, a secular political party with largely centrist positions. In 2016, he aligned himself with Kamat and became governor of Zion Hadash, and held that position until December 2020. In January 2019, Kamat--a Secondary Party at this time--proposed that Phillips run for the Kamat LP nomination. He accepted and secured the nomination in June 2020 when put to vote, defeating former Kamat LP incumbent and Leader of the Opposition Neil Mazar. During the final year of his time as governor, he was tasked with managing the province's health and safety procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many political proponents, including Secondary Matel LP Mikhael Levi, have lauded Phillips for his handling of the crisis, and many political analysts attribute his historic victory over a political party incumbent to this. Following the December 2020 elections, Kamat became the Primary Party by securing 26% of parliamentary seats (39/150), thus making Ace Phillips the eighth Prime Minister of Ineva.
Mikhael Levi (born 2 November, 1954) is an Inevan-Israeli politician serving as one of two Leaders of the Opposition of Ineva since January 2021. He is a member and leader of the Jewish, liberal Matel political party, which has been the Secondary Party of the Inevan Parliament also since January 2021. Levi was born in Ramla, Israel, to two Polish immigrants, Symeon and Ida Levi, the latter being a Holocaust survivor. In 1979, at the age of 25, Levi immigrated to Zai'ir, Ineva, to help an Israeli professor, colleague, and friend, Jakob Soffer, develop the University of Ineva in the same city. Levi has a wife, two children, and a grandson, though little information is known about them because, as he famously told a group of reporters in May 1999, "a prerequisite to helping [one's] country should not involve sacrificing [his] family's right to privacy."
At just 24 years old, Levi graduated with a doctorate in chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. A year later, he immigrated to Zai'ir, Ineva, to aid with the development of the University of Ineva. For over a decade, Levi partook in research on the campus, contributing to research in biomedicine. During this time, however, in 1981, Levi traveled to Mozambique for a year to assist with humanitarian efforts for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Upon his return in late 1982, he spent much of his time on campus working toward medicines that could help combat AIDS's effects. In 1992, then-Prime Minister Malia Asael awarded Levi the Ezra Baron Honorable Inevian Award for his research about HIV/AIDS. In December 1995, he was elected the Minister of the Inevan Ministry of Health, and again in December 2000. In 2003, Levi began his involvement in partisan politics, endorsing the Matel political party, which incorporated the principles of Judaism with progressive libertarianism. From January 2006 to December 2015, he served as mayor of Zai'ir as a representative for Matel. In 2016, Levi--only temporarily--retired from politics, becoming a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Ineva. In March 2020, as more information was coming out about the COVID-19 virus, Matel members approached him, asking if he would want to be the LP for the upcoming election cycle. Levi agreed, instantly securing his victory in the nomination election since there was no competing Matel representative seeking the role. In the December 2020 elections, Matel became a Secondary Party--a significant upgrade from Minority Party status--and Levi became one of two Leaders of the Opposition. Many credit Levi for giving Matel a prominent position in Inevan politics due to his acceptance of the LP position and early funding efforts as early as the 2000s.
Manuel Vasseur (born 30 May, 1973) is an Inevan politician serving as one of two Leaders of the Opposition of Ineva since January 2021. He is a member and leader of the Christian-Catholic liberal Redemah political party, which has been the Tertiary Party of the Inevan Parliament since January 2016. Vasseur was born in Maisons-Laffitte, France, to business mogul Benoît Vasseur and humanitarian Blanche Laurent-Vasseur. He is the great-grand-nephew of French athlete Louis Vasseur. Vasseur married fashion model and entrepreneur Claude Serreau in 1995. The couple moved to Ineva in 1998, after "[falling] in love" with her natural beauty and culture. Prior to their divorce in 2014, they had three children: Gisèle, Cécile, and Nadine. Vasseur later went on to marry Brazilian musician and actress Beatriz Furtado Chaves in 2018, and have been together since.
As a child, Vasseur attended the Ermitage International School in Maisons-Laffitte, France, and later studied Business Law at Université Paris Cité. He later obtained a Juris Doctor in the field and established himself as a well-acclaimed civil case attorney. After a month-long vacation to the island of Parteg, Ineva, he and his wife decided to relocate from France and make Ineva their permanent place of residence in 1998. In 2001, Vasseur would then commission the construction of the first Catholic church in the small, suburban town of Lagoa Nova. In 2003, he opened his own firm, and in late 2004, he successfully achieved the second-highest settlement value against a corporation in Ineva at the time. In 2006, he became an MP for the Christian-Catholic, conservative Redemah political party, a Minority Party at the time. In 2010, he did not seek renewal of the position, though he did join the advisory board of the party. In 2015, he sought to return to the position of MP and successfully did so. This would also be the first year that Redemah achieved non-Minority Party status. In March 2018, the Middle East Eye accused Vasseur of insider trading and conspiring against Inevan-Morrocan relations. While not debunking the latter claim, the Anti-Defamation League quickly denounced the allegations of insider trading, stating that "there [wa]s no evidence substantiating this seemingly baseless accusation." Consequently, in June of the same year, Vasseur proposed a "ban on media outlets sponsoring the clear-cut Islamist agenda," though this failed to even qualify for a general public vote. In August 2018, Vasseur put forth another proposal, this one only targeting "Qatari state media outlets;" this also failed to qualify for a general public vote, though by a notably much slimmer margin. The then-Minority Al-Qam LP Kadir Lazaar called for Vasseur to resign, adding that Parliament should not have been "entertaining his totalitarian fantasies." Lazaar was asked to lower his voice by the Overseer of Parliament Conduct, Noah Barak, and to use more appropriate language. Many Redemah MPs came to Vasseur's defence, one infamously telling an Al-Qam MP to "shut up," which earned the MP and the party a demerit from the Overseer. Despite the controversy surrounding Vasseur, Inevan Christians largely resonated with many of the values of Redemah, and in December 2019, Vasseur began campaigning to secure the Redemah LP nomination. Narrowly, Vasseur did so, defeating his opponent and fellow MP member Marta Moreno and later reporting that the two were still on "the best of terms." In the December 2020 elections, Redemah lost three of its parliamentary seats, yet continued to maintain Tertiary status, thus making Vasseur one of two Leaders of the Opposition.
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