Josephine Alvarez
| Josephine Alvarez | |
|---|---|
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| Foreign Secretary of Lauchenoiria | |
| In office 11 November 2017 – 09 May 2018 | |
| President | Leanna Walker |
| Prime Minister | Laura Moore |
| Preceded by | Rowan Martin |
| Succeeded by | Rowan Martin |
| Finance Secretary of Lauchenoiria | |
| In office 18 September 2014 – 11 November 2017 | |
| President | Leanna Walker |
| Prime Minister | Laura Moore |
| Preceded by | Alesha Neuman |
| Succeeded by | Gavin Kirkwood |
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 10 September 2006 – 09 May 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Kyle Kerevan |
| Succeeded by | vacant |
| Constituency | Greater Usera |
| Deputy First Minister of Yervia | |
| In office 04 April 2003 – 07 June 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Terence Duncan |
| Succeeded by | Richard Lucas |
| Member of the Yervian Parliament | |
| In office 10 September 1999 – 07 June 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Neil Wolff |
| Succeeded by | Nicole Young |
| Constituency | Eastern Usera |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Josefina Alvarez Gallego April 13, 1977 Usera, Lauchenoiria |
| Nationality | Lauchenoirian |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Jennifer Hale |
| Mother | Clarissa Gallego Mártez |
| Father | Raymundo Alvarez Ortega |
| Alma mater | University of West Summersea |
Josephine Alvarez (born Josefina Alvarez Gallego on 13th April 1977) was Foreign Secretary of Lauchenoiria from November 2017 until May 2018. She previously served as Finance Secretary from September 2014 until 2017, and is considered the main architect behind the victory of the capitalist campaign in the capitalism referendum.
Alvarez previously served as the Deputy First Minister of Yervia Province, during the SDP-Liberal coalition that ran the province from 2003 until 2007. She was the youngest person to have served in the role. Under her leadership, the Yervia Liberals managed to increase their popularity drastically, overtaking their coalition partners in the 2007 election. In the 2006 Federal election, Alvarez was elected to the Federal Parliament
Alvarez is married to Jennifer Hale, a member of the Council of Kerlile, although this marriage is considered illegitimate by many as Kerlian Councillors cannot legally marry in Kerlile and the marriage took place while Hale was living under the false name of 'Sonja Viratnen'.
Early Life and Education
Josephine Alvarez was born on the 13th April 1977 in Usera Central Hospital to Raymundo Alvarez and Clarissa Gallego. She has three siblings, two older sisters and one younger brother. She attended school in Usera, joining the Liberal Party at the age of 16 while still in school in 1993, as soon as capitalist political parties were legalised.
She attended the University of West Summersea, beginning straight after school. She studied politics and economics. She graduated in 1999, the same year she stood for election to the Yervian Parliament.
Early Political 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 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.