Editing Josephine Alvarez (section)

===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.