Anhelm Ferog
The Honourable Anhelm Ferog | |
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| Prime Minister of Vyvland | |
| In office 4 November 1994 – 3 November 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Linda Sgartermaan |
| Succeeded by | Mafjas Skenterby |
| Leader of the Christian Democratic and Conservative Party | |
| In office 1 August 1991 – 15 December 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Denis Eeris |
| Succeeded by | Rikard Fegaad |
| Domestic Minister | |
| In office 3 March 1990 – 23 December 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Kersten Degreet |
| Succeeded by | Denis Eeris |
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 25 June 1989 – 3 March 1990 | |
| Preceded by | Juljus Orn |
| Succeeded by | Määrjäwīgan Smifr |
| Member of the Parliament of Vyvland for Southwest | |
| In office 10 June 1984 – 3 June 2002 | |
| Member of the National Diet of North Vyvland for Sdeyni | |
| In office 9 June 1976 – 10 June 1984 | |
| Preceded by | Belinda Wermaas |
| Succeeded by | Mafjas vun Mafiy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 200px June 29, 1931 Jelkym, Vyvland |
| Died | 200px |
| Resting place | 200px |
| Nationality | Vyvlander |
| Political party | Christian Democratic and Conservative Party (1984-2004) Conservative Party (2004-) |
| Spouse | Gyneld Pitersen |
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| Alma mater | University of Mafiy |
| Occupation | Bank clerk |
Anhelm Ferog (pronounced /ˈanəm ðəˈɾoʝ/) was the Prime Minister of Vyvland from 1994 to 1996. He was a member of the Christian Democratic and Conservative Party, which he led from 1994 to 1996. For his two years as Prime Minister, Skenterby led a grand coalition government with the Socialist Party and Greens following Linda Sgartermaan's notoriously unstable Liberal government of 1993. Ferog's term in government ended in 1994 following the break-up of his coalition over the Namorese bombing of Syfmion and changes to the tax code. He was soon replaced as party leader by Rikard Fegaad, who went on to become Prime Minister two years later. Ferog was the first Prime Minister of reunified Vyvland to be born in what became the former South Vyvland, and the last to be born before the partition of Vyvland in 1935.
Ferog was the last heir to the title of Duke of Lyborg, which had been held by his family for 200 years. However, the family's status as nobility was immediately renounced during the Vyvlander Civil War for fears of retaliation from nationalist forces. At age 9, Ferog fled to North Vyvland with his family in response to escalating anti-nobility tension. The family settled with relatives in Sdeyni, where Ferog spent the remainder of his childhood. Ferog attended the University of Mafiy, where he studied chemical engineering, before working at Maltakem - the same company where his successor and current Prime Minister Kurt Blymont also worked.
After twenty years at the company, Ferog entered politics as a Provincial Diet candidate for Sdeyni's Wessoid ward, before becoming the city's wetaan in Parliament in the 1976 election. In reunified Vyvland's first elections in 1984, he stood as a wetaan for Southwest province, where he was born. Ferog became his party's shadow Minister of Culture, then, following Denis Eeris's 1990 cabinet reshuffle, became Domestic Minister, often seen as the second-in-command post of the government behind the Prime Minister. Following Eeris's surprise resignation from the party in 1991, Ferog stood in the KDC leadership race. As a widely respected figure, he won the elections and thus spearheaded the campaign to remove the precarious Liberal-Green coalition. This was achieved in November 1994, when Ferog ousted Linda Sgartermaan's government and himself became Prime Minister.
Ferog, unwilling to form a right-wing government with the National Party, who were still very much associated with the former Southern regime, opted for a grand coalition between his party and the Socialists, with the backing of the Greens. The government followed centrist economic policies including a reform of bureaucracy in provincial government. It also modernised various aspects of the military and security systems which were vestigial from the days of partition, most notably by abolishing Jungwakt, the longstanding system of compulsory youth military service. His coalition fell apart, however, over disagreements in how to handle the Namorese bombing of Syfmion in the Third Namo-Luziycan War; the tax code proposed by his chancellor Welelm Taolin, in which tax cuts were proposed despite the government running a deficit, had also reversed his party's popularity. Ferog was defeated at the subsequent 1996 general election; he was succeeded by his former Deputy Prime Minister, Mafjas Skenterby. Ferog stood down as a wetaan for the 2002 election, later going on to hold a seat in the Esquarian Parliament for one term.