Adric Azengaard
Adric Azengaard | |
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| Chancellor of Delkora | |
| Assumed office 5 March 2014 | |
| Monarch | Haldor VII |
| Deputy | Aerindel Faldyr |
| Preceded by | Monz Kryzer |
| Leader of the Liberal Party | |
| Assumed office 12 March 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Rengar Stysenvan |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 4 March 1998 – 6 March 2002 | |
| Minister of Social Welfare | |
| In office 9 March 1994 – 4 March 1998 | |
| Member of the Federal Parliament | |
| Assumed office 6 March 1991 | |
| Constituency | Northern Cybria |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Adric Edvard Azengaard 10 August 1968 Elvorath, State of Norvia, Kingdom of Delkora |
| Nationality | Delkoran |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Eva Azengaard (m. 1991–Present) |
| Residence | Kanzlerhus |
| Alma mater | Tordenhelm University (B.A.) University of Norenstal (M.L.) |
| Occupation | Lawyer Politician |
Adric Edvard Azengaard is the current Chancellor of the Kingdom of Delkora. As leader of the Liberal Party, he came to power following his party's successful negotiation of a coalition government with the National Labor Party and Greens following the 2014 Federal Elections.
Early Life
Azengaard was born 10 August 1968 in Elvorath, a small town in northern Norvia, to Algeron and Alice Azengaard. Throughout his early school years, he excelled academically, graduating top of his class from Elvorath Secondary School. After graduating, he enrolled at Tordenhelm University in 1985, graduating with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics in 1988. He cites his time at Tordenhelm as the period in which he started to fully develop his political views. During this time, he helped campaign for several Liberal candidates for Parliament.
Law School and Early Career
After graduating from Tordenhelm, Azengaard attended the University of Norenstal School of Law from 1988 to 1991. Here, he met several future colleagues and cabinet ministers, as well as his future wife, Eva. After graduating, he and Eva married and subsequently relocated to the Norenstal exurb of Fordryn, where Azengaard began practicing law as a civil rights attorney. During this time, he also taught part time as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Northern Cybria. He taught several courses on constitutional law and civil liberties, in addition to publishing books on Delkoran constitutional history. That same year, he approached Liberal Party leader Endirel Rymar about running for Parliament in the upcoming federal election. Rymar took the young lawyer under her wing. In the 1991 Federal Election, Azengaard was placed near the top of the Liberal Party list for his home electorate of Ost-Hyrendel, winning a seat.
Member of the Federal Parliament
In Parliament, Azengaard served on the Committee on Constitution and the Judiciary, as well as the Social Welfare Committee. He became an outspoken critic of Chancellor Uldric Bekenheimer, especially in the aftermath of the 1992 Falbaard Riots, when Bandorel State Police officers violently broke up mass protests in downtown Falbaard following Parliament's passage of harsh austerity measures that year. Seven people were killed and nearly a hundred injured in the chaos, prompting several investigations. When it was later revealed that Bekenheimer, fearing his party would lose seats in the state elections that year, had conspired with Bandorel First Minister Oskar Evengar to cover up evidence of police brutality that had occurred during the protests, a vote of no confidence was called that he lost by a wide margin. Rather than resign, Bekenheimer asked for early elections, which subsequently resulted in a National Labor-Liberal coalition government.
Azengaard was chosen by Chancellor-elect Olymyr to serve as minister of social welfare and later minister of justice following Syremis Belgaard's appointment to the Federal Constitutional Court. An outspoken advocate of the Human Rights Act of 1995, Azengaard proved to be essential in garnering right-wing support for it and ensuring its provisions were enforced by state governments.
Following the Federal Election of 2002, National Labor lost its plurality in Parliament, and was reduced to junior coalition partner in a minority government with the Greens supported on supply and confidence by the Liberals. Azengaard had unsuccessfully called on Liberal Party leader Rengar Stysenvan to partake in the coalition government, but Stysenvan, believing the Greens to be too radical, refused. This proved to be unpopular with a majority of Liberal MFPs. Following the 2010 elections, in which the Liberals lost thirty two seats, Azengaard successfully challenged Stysenvan for leadership of the party, winning by a significant margin.
In 2012, after members of the terrorist group Black Covenant detonated a bomb in the King Illyar Metropolitan Subway Station in downtown Norenstal, killing 57 people, Chancellor Monz Kryzer pushed for the passage of the National Security Act of 2012, which would greatly expand the ability of the government to spy on Delkoran citizens though roving wire-taps and the collection of metadata. National Labor, the largest opposition party at the time, avoided coming out against the Act for fear of being perceived as unpatriotic. Azengaard, meanwhile, made clear his party's staunch opposition to it, and gained significant media attention from his impassioned speeches on the floor of Parliament as the bill was being considered.
After the incumbent coalition government fell out of power following the 2014 Parliamentary Elections, he successfully formed a coalition government consisting of his Liberal Party, National Labor, and the Greens. Azengaard was subsequently sworn in as Chancellor of Delkora on 1 April 2014.
Chancellor
In his Inaugural Address to Parliament, Azengaard cited the expansion of worker self-management in the economy, reform of the National Common Fund, reigning in government surveillance, passing an updated Human Rights Act, and devolution as top priorities of his government.
Invasion of Raithir
In November 2015, following the unexpected Mubatan annexation of the Ossorian island territory of Raithir, Chancellor Azengaard addressed a joint session of Parliament where he denounced the invasion as a "flagrant violation of international law and a threat to regional peace." The following day, his government announced an embargo on Mubatan goods and the freezing of assets held by certain officials in the Mubatan government and armed forces. Azengaard resisted calls from opposition leader Tyrian Geldemar and members of the Defense Council for a declaration of war on the Mubatan government, instead opting for the more limited approach advocated by Minister of Defense Felgar Dendryr, who advised using a Royal Navy taskforce to enforce a partial naval quarantine of the island that would intercept Mubatan resupply ships destined for Raithir and provide limited air support for Ossorian forces as needed.
Nalayan Civil War
Responding to the deteriorating situation in Nalaya and the resulting outflow of refugees fleeing the civil war there, Azengaard announced plans to more than double the Kingdom's annual refugee quota and successfully secured a major increase in the foreign aid budget. Azengaard also directed the Royal Navy's Second Fleet to assist in evacuating civilians fleeing the war zone and delivering food and medical supplies to hospitals.