Gerhardus Kriel
Gerhardus Kriel | |
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 Kriel's Official Potrait | |
| Staatspresident of Kleinberg | |
| Assumed office November 25th, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Rylond Van Blerk |
| Afgevaardigde van die Eerste Volksraad | |
| Preceded by | Wikus Arendse |
| Succeeded by | Sebastian Opperman |
| Constituency | Hawe-Republiek |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gerhardus Lodewikus Kriel 1 January 1950 Bernsfontein, Hawe-Republiek, Kleinberg |
| Political party | Baanbreken Volksparty |
| Spouse | Mariete Kriel |
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| Alma mater | Hanekom Universiteit |
Gerhardus Lodewikus Kriel (born 1 January 1950) is a Baanbreken politician, who is serving as the nineteenth Staatspresident of Kleinberg since November 25th, 2005.
Kriel's entrance in to Kleinberg politics was when he was a young man in Hanekom Universiteit, one of Kleinberg's most prestigous universities. Kriel joined a political youth organization called Baanbreken Studente vir Verwoerd, an advocacy group for the rising popular politician Bern Verwoerd, who inspired Kriel at once of his many speeches he would give around the country and at Hanekom. Kriel's first run for public office was in 1990, when he ran for a delegat position in the Volksraad. Kriel, despite projected to win against Wikus Arendse, lost in a close race. Kriel would try again next election cycle in 1995, yet lost against the incumbent Arendse. Kriel's political career would go one a fifteen year hiatus. During this period Kriel was a rising radio and podcast host who gathered the support base to run, and win, in his delegate campaign for the Volksraad in 2010. Serving his five year term as a delegate on behalf of Hawe-Republiek, Kriel rose the through the ranks within the Baanbreken Volksparty and would run against his political nemesis Wikus Arendse for Staatspresident 2016. Kriel won the election and is currently the nineteenth Staatspresident of Kleinberg.