Houbêrt Louxhî

Houbêrt Louxhî Premier
Official portrait of Louxhî, 2021
Premier of Auzance
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 July, 2018
Prime Minister	Thereze Astruc Catrene Burnot
Preceded by	Vinçant Wiyåme
Prime Minister of Auzance
In office 22 April, 2013 – 12 July, 2016
Premier	Vinçant Wiyåme
Preceded by	Tchåle Raxhon
Succeeded by	Edouard Marcour
Leader of the Liberal-Progressives
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 February, 2018
Preceded by	Lucile Picård
Personal details
Born	Houbêrt Luk Louxhî (1969-04-15) April 15, 1969 Ercalvey, Auzance
Citizenship	Autuzian
Political party	Liberal-Progressives (1988-)
Spouse	Madjene Kertinmont (m. 1994)

Houbêrt Louxhî (born 15 April, 1969) is an Autuzian politician and economist who has served as Premier of Auzance since 16 July, 2018, and has been the Leader of the Liberal-Progressives since February 2017. Louxhî also served as Prime Minister of Auzance from 2013 to 2016. Identifying as a progressive, he has been associated with economically social democratic and socially progressive views during his premierships.

Louxhî was born in Ercalvey in 1969, to a relatively well-off suburban parents. He studied Economics at the Republican University of Cestiène, graduating with a first in 1990. During his final year in university, Louxhî joined the Liberal-Progressives and began to actively participate; his dissertation was on the legacy of the Labour government's economic reforms of the 1970s.

The political liberalisation of the 1970s and 1980s saw a new generation of centrist and centre-left politicians enter the fray for the first time in Autuzian independent history; Louxhî was one of this "New Generation" of politicians, entering the political scene as a Minister for the Tchambe in 1992, coinciding with the defeat of the first Liberal-Progressive government. Louxhî was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet of serving as a Shadow Minister to the Treasury for twelve months until the election of 1996. Louxhî remained a backbencher for the Liberal-Progressives throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Louxhî reprised a Cabinet role, this time as Minister for Education, in 2004.

The defeat of the Rossele government in 2008 ended eight years of Liberal-Progressive government, and returned Labour into government in a landslide, resulting in a political upset where much of the party's centrist establishment were washed out of office. Louxhî stood for the party's leadership in 2011, in the runup to the 2011 general election, however lost to centrist candidate Tchåle Raxhon; Raxhon led the party to electoral victory in 2012, however resigned within a year, resulting in Louxhî being elected the leader of the governing party, and thus the Prime Minister. Louxhî's term as Prime Minister was marked by a leftward shift in Liberal-Progressive policy towards the centreground of Autuzian politics, rather than Euclean politics, embracing measures such as the universal basic income and private utility bans. He resigned as parliamentary leader after being defeated in the 2016 general election, seeing the Labour party return to power.

Louxhî was elected Premier in July 2018, replacing the Communist-Left Premier Vinçant Wiyåme, in a shock defeat to the Labour party. His chancellorship has been marked by a shift towards improving relations with the Euclean Community, a move away from the obstructionism of the Wiyåme chancellery, and a relatively bipartisan approach to his relationship with the governing party and his own party in the legislature in order to foster compromise. Supporters praise his ability to forge legislative and diplomatic agreements, while critics find his electoral history mixed and movements of the Liberal-Progressives' agenda compromising towards the liberal movement in Auzance. Despite the Labour party's consolidation of the legislature during Louxhî's Chancellery, Louxhî himself has remained relatively popular as Premier.

Early life

Houbêrt Luk Louxhî was born on 15 April, 1969, to a well-off urban family - his mother worked as a psychologist, while his father was a party official in the Liberal-Progressive party. Louxhî performed well in his rounds of exams; his Firsts were all but one the highest marks possible, and in his Seconds, he attained three 1s and one 2 (whereby 1 is the highest mark, down to 9 as the lowest, and 0 as ungradeable). Louxhî then left home to go to the Republican University of Cestiène to study economics. Louxhî became involved in the Liberal-Progressive branch in the University, and graduated in 1980, having studied the effects of the ongoing Labour ministries in the 1970s as his dissertation.