Tommas Bezzina
Tommas Bezzina | |
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 Bezzina in 2019 | |
| President of Vitruvia | |
| Assumed office 26 July 2017 | |
| Deputy | Cointa Favaloro |
| Preceded by | Saladino Contessa |
| Spokesman of the Green Party | |
| In office 30 December 1998 – 31 October 2009 | |
| Mayor of Incudine | |
| In office 1 August 1996 – 6 April 1998 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tommas Luís Osvaldo Bezzina February 12, 1964 Precea, Luzela, Paretia |
| Citizenship | Vitruvio |
| Political party | Independent (since 2016) |
| Spouse | Eloisa Camillo (m. 1994) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parents |
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| Alma mater | Univeristy of Castellu |
Tommas Bezzina (Estmerish pronounciation:tˈɑːməz bˈɛzɪnə, born February 12, 1964) is a Vitruvio politician and current President of Vitruvia. He previously served as a professor in economics and the classics at the Univeristy of Castellu and then as a spokesperson for the Green Party of Vitruvia after joining politics.
Bezzina was born in Precea, Luzela, to a Vitruvio father and a Luzelan mother who met on a student exchange program. He was born in February of 1964, where his parents given two options of citizenship. Ultimately, they chose Vitruvia.
He was a member of the National Council where he represented the Green Party of Vitruvia as a speaker from 30 December 1998 – 31 October 2009, he served as the leader of the party and parliamentary group during these years.
For the first time in the 2017 Vitruvian Presidential Election Bezzina ran as an independent politician with support from the Greens, where he finished first out of six in the first round before facing Erasmo Zaccheo of the Liberal Democratics in the second round, which he also went on to win. He was sworn into office on the 27th July 2017.
Bezzina has described himself as being a centrist liberal, and supporter of green and social liberalist political views. He is also open about his support for the Euclean Community and his hope for a Vitruvian entry into the organisation in the future.
Personal Life
Early Life
Tommas was born on the morning of the 12th of February 1964 in the Paretian capital of Precea to writer and journalist Stiliano Bezzina (of Vitruvio descent) and Lea Di Salvatore (of Luzelan descent). His parents had met in the summer of 1962 due to a foreign student exchange program between two universities that meant that the two came to meet. The day prior to his birth his father had flown from Incudine and arrived just in time. For the first two months of his life he lived alone with his mother in her flat in Precea while she awaited a visa to live in Vitruvia with Stiliano. Tommas relocated into Vitruvia and lived in Incudine for the remainder of his childhood. He was baptized in June of 1964 at the St. Nicholas' Church. His father was an active journalist but also a businessman and due to this was away for work for a lot of his childhood in foreign countries.
In 1975, after finishing primary school, Bezzina was switched to a prestigious grammar school at the Academic Grammar School of Ania, where he took his CGES in 1981. In 1982 his mother gained full Vitruvio citizenship. Bezzina managed to avoid the mandatory conscription of Vitruvia due to being deemed unfit in 1983 and after passing in 1984 he was excused due to exams. After that, he was never called for service due to his later professorship.