Leuter Sion
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Leuter Sion | |
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 Sion's headshot for O Informe in 2018. | |
| 1st Interim Chancellor of Gran Aligonia | |
| Assumed office 30 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | N/A |
| 2nd Leader of the Aligonian Alliance of Free Thought | |
| Assumed office 21 July 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Bianca Malbi-Arceo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Leuter Gardono Sion 14 September 1965 Cagliavale, Gran Aligonia |
| Political party | Aligonian Alliance of Free Thought (AAFT) |
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Residence | 14 Rúa Caragialo |
| Education | University of Villa Romera |
| Alma mater | National School of Arts and Social Sciences |
Leuter Gardono Sion (born 14 September 1965) is a Gran Aligonian politician, author, activist, and former journalist who is currently serving as the nation's first Interim Chancellor and campaigning in the new Aligonian government's first Chancellorial election. He has served as the de facto leader of the center-left republican Aligonian Alliance of Free Thought since 2009. Ideologically, he identifies as an anti-imperialist and constitutional patriot, though generally refuses to define himself on the Left–right political spectrum.
Sion was born in Cagliavale to lower middle class parents, who largely alternated between working secretarial gig jobs, and more substantial creative endeavors for companies such as Vetricolor Interactive. After education on academic scholarship at the University of Villa Romera, and subsequently attaining a Master's in Political Science at the National School of Arts and Social Sciences in Lyncanestria, Sion began work as a writer and later as an assistant editor for Aligonian newspaper of record, Xornal Xeral de Aligonia, but grew dissatisfied to what he percieved as political interference in journalistic integrity by the newspaper's owners, the del Villar family, and subsequently resigned his post in 1994. In 1999, Sion created the republican activist lobby, the Aligonian Alliance of Free Thought, with his then-wife Bianca Malbi-Arceo, and is widely considered to be one of the prime ideological movers behind the 2004 anti-monarchical protests in Gran Aligonia, which lead to the ratification of the Valladares-Botello Act and subsequent expansion of powers for the Grand Ministry in 2005.
In 2019, Sion again gained prominence as a leader of the AAFT during a second wave of protests, subsequently becoming a popular but controversial figure for his heated remarks, which many variously characterized as radical, inflammatory, or even revolutionary. In late 2019, Sion came into contact with Prince Veremundo and subsequently set up a rapport with the equally controversial figure, culminating in agreeing with him to establish the United Republic of Gran Aligonia. Sion is campaigning for the 2020 election in the republic while maintaining his duties as Interim Chancellor.
Early life
Early career
Aligonian Alliance of Free Thought
Sion remained a prominent alternative intellectual and controversial public figure in Gran Aligonia throughout the next decade, unsuccessfully running for the seat of North Salgado near Villa Romera in 2015 while contributing to alternative media sources such as O Informe and the international United News, serving as one of the primary voices for de-emphasis of the monarchy in Gran Aligonia.