Pila Ebadeldar

Her Excellency Pila Ebadeldar MP
President of Sarenium
In office 3 July 2006 – 3 July 2016
Preceded by	Henrram Bligoukar
Succeeded by	Katayos Keria
60th Prime Minister of Sarenium
In office 6 October 1992 – 10 March 2004
President	Henrram Bligoukar
Deputy	Siyamalor Bernah
Preceded by	Fereshus Kazin
Succeeded by	Berar Hadiciar
Leader of the Opposition
In office 10 June 1990 – 6 October 1992
Preceded by	Hushlavius Mancator
Succeeded by	Khashavid Noore
Leader of the National Labor Party
In office 10 June 1990 – 10 March 2004
Preceded by	Huslavius Mancator
Succeeded by	Berar Hadiciar
Personal details
Born	Pila Shiresta Ebadeldar (1947-06-21) 21 June 1947 Barcelona, Province of Iberia, United Republic of Sarenium

Pila Shiresta Ebadeldar (Born 21 June, 1947) is a Saren politician, who served as the ~~th president of the United Republic from 2006 till 2016. She previously served as the 60th Prime Minister of Sarenium from 1992 until 2004, and as Premier of the Province of Iberia from 1982 until 1990. She led the National Labor Party from her entrance into federal politics in 1990 until her retirement as Prime Minister in 2004. She led the National Labor Party to a landslide victory at the 1992 general election, and replicated similar results at both consecutive general elections, 1996 and 2000, when she remained leader. Ebadeldar retired as Prime Minister and resigned her seat in Parliament in March of 2004, being succeeded by her Foreign Secretary Berar Hadiciar. She became known as a member of 'New Labor', as many of her political views reflected a pioneering 'pragmatic ' political philosophy. She is the longest serving Saren Prime Minister in modern history, while being the longest serving woman Prime Minister and longest serving National Labor politician to hold the office. She was also became the first Labor Leader to hail from a parliamentary seat in Iberia, and the first Labor Premier of Iberia not from Adalia, Madrid or Sevilla.

Born and raised in Barcelona, Ebadeldar attended Barcelona Elementary School, before advancing into Barcelona Middle School and lastly concluding her formal schooling at the Barcelona Advanced Secondary College in 1965. She gained admission into the University of Granada for her undergraduate studies, obtaining a Bachelor of Science (Honors) and graduating in 1969. She worked as an engineer at Hispano Automotive for the next few years before seeking preselection to the Iberian Legislative Assembly in 1974. At the 1978 election she was one of three Labor members of the Assembly, and sought leadership of the small caucus. She made history leading the caucus to a victory at the 1982 provincial election, and was re-elected at the 1986 and 1990 provincial elections. Shortly after her re-election, changes at the federal level provided opportunity for her to seek preselection and entry into federal politics. Easily winning the by-election for Gràcia in 1990, she was promptly elevated to national party leader and would go onto winning the 1992, 1996, and 2000 national general elections.

On her retirement from party politics and the Saren Parliament, she capped off a twenty-two year career serving between provincial and federal politics. After a short hiatus, she was nominated for and elected as President of the United Republic at the 2006 Presidential election. Her nomination was supported by the vast majority of MPs, and she faced no opposition after the parliamentary vote and was thus declared elected unopposed. As President she appointed three of the current seven Judges on the High Court of Sarenium, and utilized the platform of her office to push both of her Prime Ministers to address the nation's overdependence on foreign oil. She became patron of in excess of three hundred associations in addition to the existing associations traditionally patronaged by past Presidents. She retired from the office of President in 2016 and was succeeded by Katayos Keria.

Early life and education

Ebadeldar was born Pila Shiresta Ebadeldar on 21 June, 1947 at the Barcelona Women's and Children's Hospital, in Western Barcelona. She completed her schooling in Barcelona, attending Barcelona Elementary School, and Barcelona Middle School, and lastly Barcelona Advanced Secondary College after which she obtained her ICE.

One classmate of hers would go on to become a later political ally as Chair of the Iberian Trades Council, Manoucus Carroya. Ebadeldar became the first in her family to attend University, utilizing a Thamesen Grant to attend the University of Granada. While at the University of Granada, she would become a member of Iberian Young Labor, and would be elected President of the Granada University Student Union (GUSU). In this capacity, and as a student activist, she spearheaded formation of the Provincial Association of Students in Iberia (PASI), and became it's first President. Upon graduation, Ebadeldar remained politically active while working as an engineer for Hispano Automotive. A union delegate, and part-time campaigner, she sought preselection in 1974 for the Iberian Legislative Election to the Conservative-held seat of Eixamples.

Entry into Iberian politics

Ahead of the 1974 Iberian general election, a multi-decade series of Conservative governments was widely expected to be re-elected. Iberian Labor held no seats in the Barcelona metropolitan area, and Pila Ebadeldar was among a group of young guns deemed likely to run - and lose unwinnable races. On election night, she and four other Labor candidates flipped Conservative seats across Iberia, nowhere near enough to deliver a Labor government in Iberia, but wins that immediately elevated their national profiles. None more than the former student activist and engineer, who won the seat of Eixamples off a Conservative incumbent of thirty years. The seat of Eixamples covers Barcelona's immediate inner-West and at the time was the site of a rapid increase in population as Barcelona's second wave of urbanization took place. Driven by young professionals, new students, and a new wave of migrants, Ebadeldar's victory led to an immediate promotion to shadow cabinet as Shadow Assistant Minister for Education and Shadow Assistant Minister for Youth.

In 1978, despite popular Iberian Prime Minister Arge Alach being deposed in a party room coup by Caleh Soroud, the Iberian Conservatives themselves remained in a dominant position. Driven mostly by popular Premier Baston Aritroyan, and an unpopular strike among farmworkers in Andulasia hampering the Labor campaign, Iberian Labor was reduced to three seats at the 1978 provincial election. Labor retaining the seat of Eixamples was considered particularly shocking, as it was the only Labor-held seat to swing towards Labor. In light of this, and with the support of then-Secretary of the Iberian Trades Council Manoucus Carroya, Ebadeldar was unanimously elected Opposition Leader.

Provincial Opposition Leader

With Premier Aritroyan entering a third term as Premier, expectations were generally that Pila Ebadeldar would be a short-term Opposition Leader until such time as the Iberian Labor Party could find a stronger leader. The then thirty-one year old Opposition Leader's youth was considered a political weakness, and her holding a seat widely expected to return to the Conservatives on her retirement was viewed as likely un-endearing to party leadership, and the wider ILP. Further, aided by Manoucus Carroya, she embarked on a strategy to reorient the Iberian Labor Party's dedication to socialism towards policies viewed as friendlier to the middle class. As Opposition Leader she opposed the introduction of the provincial GST, labelling it regressive and cruel, while introducing amendments to exempt fruits, petrol and other 'daily goods for survival'. Her address in July 1979 near Seville attacking the Tories for 'shameful nondevelopment, visionless complacency and a failure to innovate', led to a boost to her personal approvals and resulted in the ILP drawing even with the Conservatives for the first time in over four decades in public opinion polling. Throughout 1980 she positioned the ILP as the party of visionaries, proposing new policies on housing, transport and productivity. Her proposals for Iberian high speed rail from Barcelona to Adalia via Madrid as a means of economic revitalization and encouraging sustainable growth became the cornerstone of her Premiership later on.

By 1982, initial expectations four years earlier of a narrowly re-elected Aritroyan Government were replaced by misplaced predictions of a close election. Instead, in March of 1982, the Iberian provincial election resulted in the election of Pila Ebadeldar's Iberian Labor in a landslide election win. She became Iberia's second female Premier, it's youngest Premier and it's first Premier from the ILP in over forty years.

Premiership

First term

Ebadeldar wasted little time assembling a ministry of newly minted politicians. Many of her ministers being first-term members of the Iberian Legislature, and a significant share holding little to no political experience prior to election. She opted to serve as her own Treasurer, and as newly created Minister for Women. As the first Labor Premier of Iberia in over forty years, the Ebadeldar Government embarked on a wide ranging set of reforms. Donah Corcorah and Gregorastan Bijanor were made Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Education respectively as the two most senior members of the caucus and fellow survivors of the 1978 wipeout. Corcorah was also made Deputy Premier and as the public face of infrastructure projects in the state developed a personal rusted on appeal within the wider electorate.

Between 1982 and 1986, the Ebadeldar Government sought to enact a wide range of liberalist reforms, most of these reforms were met with opposition from the Conservative benches. At the time, the Council of Citizens, which formed the upper house of the Iberian Legislature was dominated by non-Labor entities, and remained held by the Conservative majority and it's allies in the Farmers Bloc, Civic Union and other independent groupings. Ebadeldar herself had originally wanted to negotiate compromises with the Council, but was persuaded by her cabinet to wage a public war against Councilors for exercising overreach from their traditional perch of reviewing a sitting Government's legislation. She critiqued Conservatives for offering no constructive solutions, and labeled them the No-No-No Caucus. She bargained with the Farmers Bloc predominantly to break the Conservative blockade to in turn be able to enact her reforms.

In her first budget she began what became known as the Ebadeldar Era in Iberia. Funding for the arts was tripled, funding for highways not yet commenced was redirected into public transport projects, and farmland was protected from further suburban sprawl by the Iberian Housing Act requiring greater urbanization, leading to the lifting of 'maximum heights' in the province's major metropolitan areas. local councils were also partitioned in Adalia, Madrid and Barcelona, and to a lesser extent in Seville, Lisboa, and Porto. The intended outcome of greater inner-city voices was achieved with the election of new Labor Mayors in all of those major cities' inner core. Further political reforms were achieved in 1984, ending a period of subtle malapportionment which had contributed to forty years in opposition for Iberian Labor, by creating the Electoral Commission of Iberia which redrew the electorate boundaries in time for the 1986 election. The size of the Iberian Legislative Assembly was increased by a factor of one-half to facilitate greater representation across the province, and achieve support from the Farmers Bloc and Civic Union in reforming the Citizen's Council, to facilitate a more representative chamber. This was achieved by requiring all members of the Council to be elected on a province-wide slate, and increasing it's size from twenty-four to thirty. While half would continue to be elected at each election, the wealth requirements were abolished, and it's electoral roll was united with the legislative assembly's. Laws allowing voters aged sixteen or seventeen to pre-register to vote were enacted, and the fine for failing to vote in provincial elections raised from a meaningless 10c₹ to 10₹, representing a factorial increase of 100. Polling places were made more accessible and established in universities, churches, schools and public parks to minimize 'excuses' to note vote. Lastly, an early voting period was introduced of one week alongside roving polling centers in remote and regional parts of the province.

Pila Ebadeldar represented a new form of Labor Premier, and as Premier of the most populous, and most economically vital province, she engaged in conflicts with Prime Minister Caleh Soroud on more than one occasion. Her proposed high speed rail plan would be more amenable to the public if federal funding could be provided, while the federally proposed tertiary education reforms required unanimous support among provincial Premiers to ensure national consistency. When in late 1984 Soroud declared "no federal funding for Iberian pipe dreams", Ebadeldar announced the province would "ensure our universities are equitable, open and accessible", ending the Soroud Government's plans for tertiary education reform. Her policies liberalizing access to abortions, introducing adoption for gay couples or fluoridating water were obstructed by the Citizen's Council and thus became platforms of the 1986 Labor campaign for a second term.