Editing Josephine Alvarez (section)

==Political Career==

===Early Career===

Alvarez was elected as a member of the Yervian Parliament when she was only 22, in a shock election victory for the Liberal Party only months after her graduation from university. Her priority, as she stated at the time, was to 'dismantle the remnants of Villanueva's authoritarian regime' within Yervia province, and to ensure that all groups in the area had their say on how this should be done.

She became deputy leader of the Liberal Party in Yervia at the age of 24, in a move some said was intended to encourage more young people to become involved with the party. In 2002, shortly before the provincial elections, the leader of the Yervian party, Diego García, was killed in a car accident, leaving Alvarez to lead the party into the elections. 

Unexpectedly, the Communist Party lost the elections for the first time since the [[Lauchenoirian Communist Revolution|1952 revolution]], leaving the Social Democratic Party marginally in the lead. The SDP and the Liberal Party decided to form a coalition, leading Alvarez to become the Deputy First Minister of the province at the age of 25.

===Federal Parliament===

In 2006, Josephine Alvarez stood for, and was elected to, the Federal Parliament of Lauchenoiria representing the constituency of Greater Usera. She continued to argue for the systematic dismantling of institutions set up by Mateo Villanueva following the violent 1952 revolution, arguing that only with a complete fresh start could the country begin to move forward from the authoritarian period under Villanueva and his immediate successors.

In 2014, following the victory of the Liberal Party and the appointment of [[Laura Moore]] as Prime Minister, Moore asked Alvarez to serve as her Finance Secretary, and tasked Alvarez with coming up with a proposal for how to transition the economy to a capitalist system from the centrally controlled communist economy that the country still operated.

Following the victory of the capitalist campaign in the 2017 referendum, Moore's foreign secretary [[Rowan Martin]] resigned, and Moore offered Alvarez the position. She accepted, and in this role continued to discuss with other nations Lauchenoiria joining the international community more fully, and negotiating trade deals with other nations.

===During the Civil War===

During the outbreak of the [[Second Lauchenoirian Civil War]], Josephine Alvarez was imprisoned by [[Suleman Chaher]]'s government, who accused her of 'treason' for failing to recognise Chaher's government following his coup d'etat. She was sent to Ginsap Prison, where a number of female political prisoners were held during the early days of the civil war. 

In early June, Alvarez and a number of political prisoners were broken out of this facility by the [[Lauchenoirian Resistance]]. Alvarez spent most of the summer in resistance-held Usera, where she continued to argue for a resolution to the war that ensured the survival of Lauchenoirian democracy and prevented an authoritarian government seizing power. 

In early August, when the Kerlian Army captured Usera, Alvarez was taken to Kerlile as a prisoner of war. While in Kerlile, she was accused by the Kerlian government of attempting to assassinate President [[Joanna Greenwood]]. Upon the signing of the [[Haven Accords]], Kerlile was forced to return Alvarez to Lauchenoiria. They later filed a request for extradition, which the Lauchenoirian government rejected.

===Post-war===

In December 2018, Alvarez was elected leader of the Liberal Party of Lauchenoiria. Following the June 2019 elections, she became Prime Minister of Lauchenoiria, heading a coalition of the Liberal Party, the [[Conservative Party (Lauchenoiria)|Conservative Party]], the [[Lauchenoirian Democratic Alliance]] and the [[Pacifist Party (Lauchenoiria)|Pacifist Party]]. Fresh elections under the new constitution led were held in 2020, however Alvarez remained in power, this time in coalition with the [[Green Party (Lauchenoiria)|Greens]].