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His Excellency The Right Honourable Pietro Muro | |
|---|---|
 Pietro Muro, 1984 | |
| 6th President of Imagua and the Assimas | |
| In office 22 March, 1981 – 23 April, 1984 | |
| Prime Minister | Marguerite Ernman |
| Preceded by | Anthony Brockett |
| Succeeded by | Marguerite Ernman |
| 11th Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas | |
| In office 23 April, 1976 – 22 March, 1981 | |
| President | Anthony Brockett |
| Deputy | Marguerite Ernman |
| Preceded by | Eric Fleming |
| Succeeded by | Marguerite Ernman |
| Member of Parliament for San Pietro-Mastriano | |
| In office 23 April, 1952 – 22 March, 1981 | |
| Preceded by | Gabino Montani |
| Succeeded by | Lara Levatino |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pietro Muro 1 September 1906 San Pietro, Assimas, Etruria |
| Died | 14 July 2002 (aged 95) Bronstad, Imagua and the Assimas |
| Resting place | Lundholm Cemetery |
| Nationality | Etrurian (1906-1946) Imaguan (1946-2002) |
| Political party | Democratic Labour Party |
| Spouse | Griffith Ernman |
| Children | 3 |
Pietro Muro (1 September, 1906 - 14 July, 2002) was an Imaguan politician and union leader who served as the eleventh Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas from 1976 to 1981, as the sixth President following the death of Anthony Brockett until 1984, and as the local leader of the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union from 1932 to 1944, as the national leader of the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union from 1944 until its merger with the Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers in 1947, and then as the regional head of the Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers, until 1952, when he entered national politics.
Born in 1906 to working-class parents, Pietro Muro was forced to terminate his studies in 1918, as his parents could not afford for him to continue his studies at a secondary school. This introduction to factory life led Muro to be involved in the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union by 1922, which gave him first introduction to politics.
Serving as union representative, Muro was able to secure a pay raise at his factory, and was initially able to improve working conditions. However, as the 1920s progressed, union rights were eroded by the colonial government, leading to decreasing effectiveness of the union. Despite this, in 1935, Muro Pietro became the leader of the union branch in Mastriano. However, in 1940, with the merger of colonial unions into a single Etrurian union by the orders of the Greater Solarian Republic, Pietro Muro opposed the merger, and as such was arrested and was sentenced to serve for fifteen years.
After the invasion of the Assimas Islands by Imaguan and Estmerish forces in 1944, Muro was released and became the head of the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union. He would serve until it merged with the Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers in 1947, upon which he became head of the Assiman branch. He would continue serving until he resigned in 1952 to run as a Democratic Labour candidate.
Upon his victory in 1952, Pietro Muro built up a reputation as being a (TBC)
Biography
Early life
Pietro Muro was born on 1 September, 1906, in San Pietro to cabinetmaker Gianluigi Muro (1867-1932) and Annagrazia Muro (1879-1955), as the youngest of three children, and the second son. They lived in the neighbourhood of Mastriano, due to its location near the factory where his father worked.
In 1912, he began attending the Mastriano School. Although Muro was an excellent student, due to his parents' financial situation, after completing his elementary school studies in 1918, Muro was forced to drop out and start working at the same factory as his father, in order to help his family "stay under their roof." These circumstances helped make Muro realise that "the current economic order [was] fundamentally unjust," as combined, he, his brother, and his father, only earned "a few florins a week," which was barely enough to stay at their home.
Thus, in 1920, he became interested in affiliating the factory's workers with a trade union, learning about the concept from a close friend of his who worked as a sharecropper. Intrigued, he helped organise the factory's workers to form a union branch, which voted to join the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union in 1921.
Union involvement
By 1922, Pietro Muro became involved in the union branch of the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union, which operated at the factory that his family worked at. As Muro helped organise the factory's workers, he became the union representative at the factory by a vote of the workers.
Pietro Muro sought to negotiate with the executives regarding payment of workers, with Muro advocating an increase of the minimum wage from 5 florin per day to 25 florin per day. After several months of negotiations, Muro was able to persuade the owners to pay the workers a minimum wage of ₣12.50 per day, which was hailed as a success by the union, as well as the workers.
However, as the decade wore on, Pietro Muro found it "difficult" to convince companies and his own union to make "meaningful improvements" to the conditions of workers at the factory. This was exacerbated by the Great War, and the Gaullican occupation of the Assimas, alongside neighbouring Estmerish colony of Imagua, which saw labour rights restricted in the name of the "war effort."
Despite this situation, Pietro Muro continued gaining prominence in the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union, and in 1935, he became the leader of the union branch serving the factories in Mastriano. As one of the main union leaders in the area, Pietro Muro became noted for his heavy efforts to assert union authority, much to the chagrin of many leaders, who were supportive of cooperating with the colonial government.
In 1940, when the Etrurian government passed legislation requiring all colonial trade unions to be merged into the TBD Trade Union, Pietro Muro refused to allow the workers be "chained to a toothless trade union." As a consequence, Pietro Muro was arrested and charged on unfair labour practices, and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He would be released after the invasion of the Assimas by Estmerish and Imaguan forces in 1944, and would become the Secretary-General of the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union.
As Secretary-General, he repudiated the merger with the TBD Union, and declared that the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union would fight for "fair representation" and for "justice, liberty, and prosperity" for the workers. He urged branch unions to "force the hand of collaborationists" and ensure that living standards of the Assiman workers would improve. This helped win him substantial support, with some at this time advocating for Muro to advocate for Assiman independence from Etruria. However, Pietro Muro sought to keep the union away from the discussions, saying that "our duty, first and foremost, is to repay the debt incurred by our passivity, our inaction: once we have addressed all that, can we discuss the fate of these islands."
After the end of the Solarian War in 1946, the Assimas were officially annexed. Recognizing the position of the Assimas as being a "mere parish," and wishing to "build closer relations with the unions on the other side [of the Pilastri Straits]," Pietro Muro began negotiations to make the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union a regional branch of the Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers. After several months of discussions, Pietro Muro held a vote among the union membership, with 51.4% of the members voting in favour of the agreement.
Thus, on 1 May, 1947, the Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union of the Assimas became the Assiman Branch of the Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers, with Pietro Muro remaining the head of the union. During this period, Pietro Muro built up ties with both the national union, and with the Democratic Labour Party, which the national Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers was a part of.
In 1952, the Democratic Labour Party urged him to run against incumbent Sotirian Democratic MP Gabino Montani. Pietro Muro accepted the offer, and officially resigned his role in the union to enter national politics.
Entry into Parliament
In the 1952 general election, Pietro Muro had the backing of both the Democratic Labour Party, and the Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers. This gave him a significant advantage in that election campaign, given that the incumbent MP, Gabino Montani of the Sotirian Democrats had been perceived to be anti-union, particularly as Montani was accused of cracking down on unions at his factories before the Solarian War.
Thus, from the start, Pietro Muro emerged as being the most likely person to win the constituency of San Pietro-Mastriano, with Montani facing an uphill battle against Muro. Despite Montani accusing Muro of being a criminal and a communist, Pietro Muro deflected these accusations, pointing to his role as the regional head of the Union of Sharecroppers and Manufacturing Workers, and as the Secretary-General of the Assiman Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union.
When the results came in, Muro won with 64% of the vote, enabling him to enter the Chamber of Commons. Thus, he was sworn in for his first term on 23 April, 1952, as a backbencher for the Democratic Labour Party.
In 1953, he delivered his maiden speech, urging for the Imaguan government to take "decisive action" to protect union rights and create a "more just Imagua for all, not just for the bourgeoisie." This gave him a reputation of being a hardline democratic socialist, firmly placing Muro to the party's left. While this garnered him a lot of support from trade unionists, it opened him up to attack from the Sotirian Democrats, who accused him of being a Chistovodian-style communist.
After the invasion of Dunhelm Island by Maracao in 1955, he urged Marguerite Ernman's government to "militarily respond," saying that the invasion and occupation "was, first and foremost, an act of war." He was critical of the "poor" response that the government has shown, saying that her actions had "jeopardised the Democratic Labour Party's continued survival."
The following year, Muro ran against Sotirian Democratic candidate Coreno Furia, who ran on a platform of deregulation and on preserving traditional values. Pietro Muro accused Furia of having ties with the colonial government in the Assimas during the Greater Solarian Republic, leading to Pietro Muro increasing his support. When the results arrived, he had 72% of the vote, allowing him to serve for a second term in the constituency.
In his second term, Pietro Muro became (TBC)
Personal life
Political views
For most of his life, Pietro Muro was a democratic socialist, advocating for the expansion of TBC.
However, in the aftermath of both the split of the Democratic Labour Party with Travis Marshall's National Labour Party, and the 1980 recession, Pietro Muro became a neoliberal, with his government delivering the 1981 budget which saw significant government cuts, and with Muro presiding over Ernman's response to the budget.
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Religion
Pietro Muro was born and raised as a Solarian Catholic, having been baptised at birth.
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