Quách An Tương

State Director Quách An Tương
挄安相
Quách in 2020
State Director of Nainan
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 January 2023
Preceded by	Lê Tranh Lộc
Premier of Nainan
In office 5 June 2018 – 7 January 2023
Preceded by	Lê Tranh Lộc
Succeeded by	Hoàng Lan Mai
Assemblyman of the People's Assembly of Nainan
In office 20 November 2012 – 5 June 2018
Preceded by	Dương Quỳnh Giang
Succeeded by	Ngô Sương Sương
Mayor of To Song
In office 1 October 2000 – 20 November 2012
Preceded by	Trịnh Hữu Nam
Succeeded by	Lương Trung Nguyên
Personal details
Born	2 February 1948 (Age 75) Sen Voi, Duyên Dáng Province
Political party	Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity
Spouse	Huỳnh Thùy Anh (m. 1992)
Children	3
Alma mater	National University of Canhdong

This is a Nainese name; the family name is Quách (挄).

Quách An Tương (Nainese: 挄安相; Born 2 February 1955), is a Nainese politician and statesman who has is currently serving as the State Director of Nainan. He previously served as the Premier of Nainan from 2018 to 2023. He served as Mayor of To Song from 2000 to 2012, and is a former agent of the Van Dieu during the 1980s and 1990s. He has been a major player in Nainese politics for decades, and is one of the closest allies of Hoàng Lan Mai, daughter of Hoàng Viện Trai, and current Premier of Nainan and General Secretary of the Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity. He had served as a member of the People's Assembly of Nainan from 2012 to 2018.

Early life

Quách was born in the city of Sen Voi, Duyên Dáng Province in 1948 to a wealthy family, his father was the Mayor of Sen Voi, his mother was a school teacher and leader of the local school district. Quách had four brothers, Van and Khan, and two sisters, Hà and Yen. Quách grew up in a political family, his uncle was a member of the regional assembly of Duyen Dang during the 50s. During the Kingdom of Nainan his family would be supportive of the NPSL.

During the Nainese Civil War the Quách family fled to Kuthina and lived in the Nyaram region of the country until the end of the war and returned to To Song in 1966. Quách would go to the National University of Canhdong, the same university of Nainan's first State Director and founder, Hoàng Viện Trai. He would study politics and later become a member of the Young Partisans of Nainan.

He would becme a major member of the YPN at the university. He would become a assistant and full member of the NPSL's party and would join the party's intelligence wing during the 1970s.

Career

Van Dieu

Quách as an agent of the Van Dieu, sometime in the 1990s

Quách became a member of the Van Dieu in the mid 1980s, becoming active in the Nyaram regions of the country. He would work in anti-separatist missions in the region, and became closely allied with military officials in Nyaram Khet. He would become a major Van Dieu leader in the region and worked with many ethnic Nyaram agents in fighting separatists.

During a hostage crisis in the Nyaram capitol of Jowkmat, he would be one of the agents involved in resolving and detaining the hostage takers. He would work on an on-and-off career with the Van Dieu, retiring from the Van Dieu in the 1990s.

Mayor of To Song

Quách at a rally in 2011

Quách would become the mayor of To Song in 2000 after leaving the Van Dieu. He would lead an anti-crime leadership persona that would attempt to get rid of organised crime in the city, becoming extremely successful, using tough policing and violent methods to get rid of them. He would be accused by foreign groups of using human rights abuses such as torture to get rid of crime, he would work closely with the Van Dieu to help get rid of organised crime.

The government of To Song would celebrate becoming a "shining example" of leadership in Nainan. They would call for more hardliner politics based around the original ideology of the NPSL, Tự Ý Chí.

Quách would become a well-known member of Nainese politics by the 2010s due to his hardliner policies and would go ahead to enter national politics. He would make a public statement supporting Shangea during Operation Eastern Protection against Kuthina.

Assembly Membership

Quách greets Nainese police officers, 2016

He would serve a member of the People's Assembly for 6 years. He would become close allies with Hoàng Lan Mai, daughter of NPSL founder Hoàng Viện Trai and hardliner. They would work to rebuild the hardliner originalist faction of government, which had been falling out since the 1980s.

They would form the Great Resolve Bloc and him, Mai, Văn Anh Khải, and Mai's brother, Hoàng Lan Trúc, would become known as the four "Hoangists", the leadership of unofficial bloc. Despite Mai's leadership skills and prowess, Quách had a personality that made him more appealling to the public, military, and party members. His policies had made him a leader for hardliners, eventually he would become Premier under Lê Tranh Lộc in 2018.

During this time he became popular with the younger generations of Nainan who had become more lenient towards hardliner politics, and developed a cult of personality surrounding him.

Premiership

Quách with Yuan Xiannian of Shangea

As Premier of Nainan he would try and be a dealbroker between the hardliners and reformists of the government. He would work to align Nainan with Shangea and cool tensions with countries like Dezevau and Lavana, however reformists had pushed for more alignment with Zorasan, leading to disagreement on foreign policy between the Premier and State Director. He would make numerous visits to countries like Shangea, Siamat, Heijiang, Zorasan, Hacyinia, and North Kabu.

He would be able to successfully get his ally Mai into becoming leader of the NPSL after the death of it's previous leader Trầm Bá Cường in 2018. This lead to further disputes between the hardliner and reformist factions of the government.

Quách was the forerunner in creating a social credit system known as the Community Merit System which would track the actions of Nainese citizens and create a blacklist for those considered "unvaluable" or with low community merit. This system would become fully implemented later on. During the 2022 Hacyinia-Lavana War Quách would call for peace but send support to Hacyinia against Lavana.

Quách would then push for a ban of factionalism in the government, this lead to conflict in late 2023 that culminated in the takeover by the hardliners through a soft coup in early 2023, this lead to Quách becoming State Director and Mai becoming Premier.

State Directorship

Quách with Foreign Minister of Shangea Jiang Zhongyu in 2023

Quách became State Director of Nainan in January 2023 and would begin with banning factionalism from the government and cracking down on reformists. He would pass bills that would bring harsh punishments for those who stray away from the party line. He would also put down small protests that began in 2022.

He would change Nainan's foreign policy, pushing stronger towards cooling tensions with Lavana and becoming further aligned with Shangea's government even more. He would also begin to push away from alignment with Zorasan. He would fully pass the Community Merit System nationwide and begin a program to rebuild the Van Dieu. He and Mai's leadership has been considered a sharp return back to Nainan's olden days of more harsh dictatorship.

Controversies

Effigy of Quách at a human rights protests in Kuthina, 2018

Extrajudicial killings

Quách has many controversial policies and actions that make him one of the more difficult leaders in southern Coius. During his time in the Van Dieu, he has stated that he had committed extrajudicial killings against separatists and organised crime members. During his time as Mayor of To Song, he made similar policies, allowing the police to commit more extrajudicial killings against organised crime members, human rights organisations say he was one of Nainan's worst offenders. Similar policies occured after becoming State Director in 2023, many claim he and his allies want Nainan to return to pre-1980s dictatorship where the government has extreme power over it's people.

Senrian genocide denial

Similar to his Shangea counterpart Yuan Xiannian, he has made statements denying war criminal actions by the Shangean Empire against Senria during the Great War, stating that they were "exaggerated" and "misrepresented beyong belief". He fully back's Yuan's position on the Senrian Genocide.

Siamat war crime denial

Quách has made statements defending the Van Dieu's actions supporting the revolutionary forces during the Siamat War. He defends the Van Dieu agents' support of Siam Muoy and Sba Svay war crimes and ignorance by the Van Dieu to stop them from being committed. He even goes as far as stating that "some of the imperialist dogs in the Siamat conflict deserved what happened to them, I will not deny this."

Personal life

Quách with his daughter doing the Nainese fist salute