Miria Seranoda

Dr. Miria Seranoda
Pantolara of the Fostana
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 September 2020
3rd Premier of the Caropsyne Pontanore
In office 31 July 2000 – 14 November 2010
Preceded by	Haldric Maldian
Succeeded by	Alza Permentanna
Administrator-General of Euvodora
In office 21 April 1997 – 30 July 2000
Foreign Minister
In office 5 April 1993 – 14 May 1996
Preceded by	Fostana Rule
Succeeded by	Garel Thormond
Member of the Pontiana
In office 5 April 1993 – 14 May 1996
Constituency	Fornænda Sulis
Personal details
Born	(1952-02-24) February 24, 1952 Fornænda
Nationality	Caropsyne
Political party	New Left Independent (Former) Moderate (Former)
Spouse	Larmas
Children	1 daughter
Residence(s)	Polmona, Euvodora
Education	PhD International Relations
Alma mater	Imperial University Fornænda
Profession	Politician, Diplomat, Political Scientist

Miria Seranoda (born: 24 February 1952) was the 3rd Premier (Pontissiana) of the Caropsyne Pontanore, the first woman to ever hold the office, and the first independent candidate to have won a Pontanore Elections in over a century. Prior to being Premier, she served as Foreign Minister and Administrator-General of Euvodora. Today, Seranoda a member (Pantolara) of the Fostana. She is well-regarded internationally and is considered the one of the most important Caropsyne politicians in modern history.

Early Years and Personal Life

Miria Seranoda was born on 24 February 1952 into a middle class Fornænda family, the daughter of an acclaimed psychiatrist, Dr. Jalmand Seranoda. She excelled in school, receiving a first honors from her local Fostitio. Seranoda would go onto attend the Imperial University of Fornænda (now known as the University of the Pontanore) to obtain her doctorate in international relations. She successfully defended her thesis in 1976. Economics Professor Gethman Tormian was one of her lecturers while she was there and it was he who encouraged her to enter politics.

Taking his advice, she quickly became a staunch critic of the Fostana's rule over the country and their austere policies. Seranoda would attack them for the lack of democracy. She would participate in numerous pro-democracy protests and lead one of the largest movements in Fornænda. Her opinions would cause her to receive many threats from the powers of the time, and was certainly being watched by the Damosca. She would meet her husband Larmas during a week-long strike outside a factory complex on the outskirts of the capital in 1981. They would have a daughter two years later.

Fostana rule began to collapse at the start of 1990 due to a number of controversies involving improper member conduct and damaging social policies placed upon the country. In 1991, the Communist Party unleashed a nationwide uprising to overthrow the upper chamber and introduce a marxist state in its place. Seranoda and her husband participated in the 200,000 person gathering in the center of Fornænda. The Damosca had been deployed to put an end to the uprising. She and several others were able of avoid being arrested. Protests broke out in Ariatra the following year - she also participated, and even had an opportunity to speak in front of the crowd. The military had been ordered by the Fostana to end to the protests but when they arrived, they said they would not carry out their orders and instead joined the protesters.

The Fostana, led by Chair Roth, had no alternative but to accept the demands of the crowd. He announced the Pontiana would be reopened during the early months of 1993 and democracy would be restored. Seranoda registered as a member of Phodric Dormond's Moderate Party and ran for the Pontiana seat for Fornænda's Sulis district. She easily won her district election in April 1993.

Political Career

Premier Dormond appointed Seranoda to his cabinet as Foreign Minister. Miria and Phodric had a good working relationship for the first year and a half, marked by the historic signing of the 1994 Treaty of Taerisz which would normalized relations between the Pontanore and the neighboring Republic of Ardalia. Seranoda had been instrumental in achieving the diplomatic victory for the Government. She would also engage with numerous other nations including Corsimenia, Curiastan, Loslakia (and her allies), Leonstein, and Trodenheim. Despite her efforts at building up relations around the world, her efforts were being actively being fought against at home.

By late 1994, she grew increasingly uneasy with policy decisions made by Phodric Dormond and Haldric Maldian, both the Defense and Interior Minister. This started with major investments in the armed forces and national police forces, triple the amounts the Fostana had spent during their unilateral control of the State. They argued that such build-up was critical to the defense of the Pontanore and to properly project its strength on the world stage. She actively called out such actions as working counter to her efforts to improve global relations. This was only made worse as Dormond implemented aggressive policies that were antgonistic against countries whose foreign policy disagreed with that of the Pontanore's, especially towards Curiastan whom both men believed was a direct threat to long-term influence in developing countries.

Over the next year, there were several bombings, assassinations, and poisonings that were suspected to have been carried out by the Damosca on the orders of Dormond. Seranoda's relationship with the Premier continued to decline and both she and Maldian by this point had become sworn enemies. As these events occurred, Miria's thinking began to show her that the dramatic shift in foreign policy was not entirely of Dormond's but rather influenced by the intelligence service itself. She would take this time to make use of every resource at her disposal to confirm her suspicions. Everything would come to a head the following year.

In March 1996, the entire Pontanore was brought to a complete standstill due to the Great Oil Crisis. By the this time, the Damosca was very aware of her attempts at finding out who was responsible for the events that occurred over 1995 abroad and whom was involved in developing Dormond's foreign policies. Fearing for her own safety, she and her family fled across the border to Ardalia into self-imposed political exile (taking with her what evidence she had obtained). From Hran, she broadcasted a fiercely critical television speech in which she claimed the Premier was responsible for organizing the ongoing oil crisis that had befallen the country and accused him of being ruled by the intelligence service into pursing a violent and bloody foreign policy. She covertly had an ally present a dossier to the Pontiana's Executive Committee listing notable terrorist acts for which she claimed Dormond was responsible for orchestrating.

Dormond resigned shortly afterwards saying that he had lost the confidence of the Caropsyne people. His closest political ally, Haldric Maldian succeeded him after a snap election. Maldian took no time in formally dismissing Seranoda from her position as Foreign Minister and appointed Garel Thormond in her place. Seranoda, now no longer a member of the Pontiana and a target of the Damosca, chose to remain in Ardalia - even though it would break out into civil war months later. Miria would stay in political isolation for the next year. Coinciding with Curian dictator Andart Sadner's rise to power in 1997, the Pontanore under Maldian increased its aggression towards the Bloc. Under instructions from Sadner, Curian Intelligence formented a plot to kidnap Seranoda from her hiding place in Ardalia because she possessed information to implicated their involvement in the Oil Crisis and a wider conspiracy surrounding Operation Greensloth.

The Damosca - under General Pholomir Zarmal learned of the plan. Maldian hated the former Foreign Minister but he decided that he could not risk the propaganda coup they'd have if the Curians got to her first. Damosca agents, led by Zarmal himself, snuck into Ardalia in the thick of the civil war and got to her mere minutes before their rivals. She was taken by helicopter to a waiting boat off the island of Adento. As they approached the vessel, Zarmal told her that the Premier was willing to 'forgive' her previous statements and would appoint her as Administrator-General of Euvodora and in exchange, she would cease any further public criticism of him or his Government's policies. Recognizing the power and resources that she would possess by running the Pontanore's fastest-growing and increasingly most important state, she accepted. Although she would maintain 'solidarity' with Maldian in public, that did not stop her from privately criticizing and indirectly attacking the Government in private.

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