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| office = [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]] | | office = [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]] | ||
| term_start = 1 Trîlua, 21198 | | term_start = 1 Trîlua, 21198 | ||
| term_end = | | term_end = 2028 | ||
| alongside = <!--For two or more people serving in the same position from the same district. (e.g. United States Senators.)--> | | alongside = <!--For two or more people serving in the same position from the same district. (e.g. United States Senators.)--> | ||
| vicepresident = [[Adheritus Ilkashvar]] | | vicepresident = [[Adheritus Ilkashvar]] | ||
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| succeeding = <!--For President-elect or equivalent--> | | succeeding = <!--For President-elect or equivalent--> | ||
| predecessor = [[Irasur Mérovin]] | | predecessor = [[Irasur Mérovin]] | ||
| successor = | | successor = [[Adheritus Ilkashvar]] | ||
| prior_term = | | prior_term = | ||
|party = Independent (since 211XX)<br>Excelsior Party (211YY-211XX) | |party = Independent (since 211XX)<br>Excelsior Party (211YY-211XX) | ||
|birth_date = <!-- 14 Íotilús, 21146 --> c. 21133-21136<ref>Candrin's date of birth is not known to the public</ref> | |birth_date = <!-- 14 Íotilús, 21146 --> c. 21133-21136<ref>Candrin's date of birth is not known to the public</ref> | ||
|birth_place = [[Valēka]], [[ | |birth_place = [[Valēka]], [[Kaviska]] | ||
|spouse = Síonna Candrin | |spouse = Síonna Candrin | ||
|residence = [[Kroveniren Hall]] | |residence = [[Kroveniren Hall]] | ||
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'''Andrus Hūvrius Dariur Kâmen Cólumba Oirenak-ú-Emblesèv Meþodius Mandur Sóenis Candrin''' is a [[Kiravian]] politician and the current [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]]. A former shipping executive and Governor of his home state of [[ | '''Andrus Hūvrius Dariur Kâmen Cólumba Oirenak-ú-Emblesèv Meþodius Mandur Sóenis Candrin''' is a [[Kiravian]] politician and the current [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]]. A former shipping executive and Governor of his home state of [[Kaviska]], Candrin was appointed Secretary of the Exchequer by the [[Federal Stanora]] in 21192 and played a key role in developing and implementing economic policies that led to explosive growth in the late 21190s. Associated with the [[Shaftonist-Republican_Alliance#Economic_Policy|economically liberal wing of the Federalist Republican Alliance]], he stood for the office of Prime Executive in the 21197 election and won with 66% of the final electoral vote, succeeding [[Irasur Mérovin]]. | ||
As Prime Executive, Candrin has worked to sustain high levels of economic growth while pursuing an active foreign policy. He directed a comprehensive naval modernisation programme and entered the Federacy into the [[Oceanic Defence Coalition]] before shifting to a regional focus on [[Ixnay]] in 21200. Domestically, his agenda has included interstate commercial reform, tax reform, and simplification of the immigration process. Though generally popular, Candrin has been criticised throughout his time in politics for the impact of budget cuts to domestic development spending on [[Three Kiravs Model|Second and Third Kirav]], a perceived lack of attention to labour issues and health financing. Later in his tenure as Prime Executive, he was subject to criticism from certain sectors - including part of his previous support base - for the financial and human cost of Kiravian intervention in [[Crona]] and for a perceived soft-authoritarian turn in his style of administration. | As Prime Executive, Candrin has worked to sustain high levels of economic growth while pursuing an active foreign policy. He directed a comprehensive naval modernisation programme and entered the Federacy into the [[Oceanic Defence Coalition]] before shifting to a regional focus on [[Ixnay]] in 21200. Domestically, his agenda has included interstate commercial reform, tax reform, and simplification of the immigration process. Though generally popular, Candrin has been criticised throughout his time in politics for the impact of budget cuts to domestic development spending on [[Three Kiravs Model|Second and Third Kirav]], a perceived lack of attention to labour issues and health financing. Later in his tenure as Prime Executive, he was subject to criticism from certain sectors - including part of his previous support base - for the financial and human cost of Kiravian intervention in [[Crona]] and for a perceived soft-authoritarian turn in his style of administration. | ||
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===Seaborne Corporation and State Politics=== | ===Seaborne Corporation and State Politics=== | ||
Upon graduating from university, Candrin was given a position as a paymaster and schedule manager at Seaborne Corporation's depôt in the Midocean Islands, a Kiravian territory in the Pelagic Ocean. As a member of the company's controlling family (albeit a cadet branch thereof), Candrin was "cautiously avoided" by the Seaborne employees and fell deep into boredom at the outpost, spending most of his ample free time drinking with seaplane pilots and smoking cigars. After completing his year "in exile", he was relocated to Mystmar, Erinava in the same capacity. Here he chose to work under the false name Dallas McAllen, with his true identity known only to the depôt manager, but paid for his privacy with disrespect and disobedience from his predominantly | Upon graduating from university, Candrin was given a position as a paymaster and schedule manager at Seaborne Corporation's depôt in the Midocean Islands, a Kiravian territory in the Pelagic Ocean. As a member of the company's controlling family (albeit a cadet branch thereof), Candrin was "cautiously avoided" by the Seaborne employees and fell deep into boredom at the outpost, spending most of his ample free time drinking with seaplane pilots and smoking cigars. After completing his year "in exile", he was relocated to Mystmar, Erinava in the same capacity. Here he chose to work under the false name Dallas McAllen, with his true identity known only to the depôt manager, but paid for his privacy with disrespect and disobedience from his predominantly Eshavian workers. | ||
Returning to Valēka several years later, Candrin began working in Seaborne's {{wp|government relations}} department. | Returning to Valēka several years later, Candrin began working in Seaborne's {{wp|government relations}} department. | ||
===Governor of | ===Governor of Kaviska=== | ||
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[[File:Candrin Profile.jpg|thumb|Candrin as Governor of | [[File:Candrin Profile.jpg|thumb|Candrin as Governor of Kaviska]] | ||
As discontent with the Kirosocialist system swelled in the Federacy's largest state, Candrin announced his candidacy for the 21180 gubernatorial election. Though a member of the Shaftonist-minded reformist Moderate Republican Party, Candrin was also able to secure the endorsement of the pro-market protest party Excelsior, forming a united front against the Kirosocialist-compliant | As discontent with the Kirosocialist system swelled in the Federacy's largest state, Candrin announced his candidacy for the 21180 gubernatorial election. Though a member of the Shaftonist-minded reformist Moderate Republican Party, Candrin was also able to secure the endorsement of the pro-market protest party Excelsior, forming a united front against the Kirosocialist-compliant Kaviska Democratic Union that had ruled the state for decades.The ensuing gubernatorial race quickly assumed a national profile. Candrin reached out to reformists in other states, claiming that "if Kirosocialism is overthrown in Kaviska, its fate throughout the realm is sealed." | ||
The initial phase of Candrin's campaign proved disappointing: Initially intending to solicit passive support from both of Valēka's municipal parties, Candrin failed to gain any measure of support from either the Emerald Civic Alliance or even his own former Azure Civic Union, both of which were unwilling to disrupt the status quo or jeopardise the flow of federal funds to the city through Kirosocialist programmes. Thus, the Candrin campaign was forced to adopt a more grassroots approach, courting business interests large and small, various ethnic communities, professional groups, and a few trade unions that had suffered from Kirosocialist central planning, in order to establish an independent base of support in the state's principal city. --> | The initial phase of Candrin's campaign proved disappointing: Initially intending to solicit passive support from both of Valēka's municipal parties, Candrin failed to gain any measure of support from either the Emerald Civic Alliance or even his own former Azure Civic Union, both of which were unwilling to disrupt the status quo or jeopardise the flow of federal funds to the city through Kirosocialist programmes. Thus, the Candrin campaign was forced to adopt a more grassroots approach, courting business interests large and small, various ethnic communities, professional groups, and a few trade unions that had suffered from Kirosocialist central planning, in order to establish an independent base of support in the state's principal city. --> | ||
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==Service as Prime Executive== | ==Service as Prime Executive== | ||
===Early Policies=== | ===Early Policies=== | ||
Candrin campaigned for the Prime Executure as the favoured candidate of the National Renewal establishment, promising to continue maket-oriented reforms, balance state and federal responsibilities to address new economic challenges, and promote economic growth. His early policies focused mostly on increased economic liberalisation and lower tax burdens, following the trajectory that he had set as Governor of | Candrin campaigned for the Prime Executure as the favoured candidate of the National Renewal establishment, promising to continue maket-oriented reforms, balance state and federal responsibilities to address new economic challenges, and promote economic growth. His early policies focused mostly on increased economic liberalisation and lower tax burdens, following the trajectory that he had set as Governor of Kaviska and which had been reproduced by Rénkédar and Mérovin on the federal level. Along with these policies, which were generally judged as successful, Candrin spearheaded a more controversial reform of the Federacy's immigration system. In order to encourage more trade and investment, Candrin relaxed the requirements for foreigners to become long-term and permanent residents in the Federacy (it should be noted that permanent residency is usually not a step towards naturalization, see ''[[Kiravian nationality law]]''), and approved expedited visa procedures for nationals of select nations, such as [[Urcea]] and [[Caphiria]]. | ||
Candrin's most notable and enduring first-term policy was his initiative to rennovate the [[Kiravian Armed Forces]]. Candrin worked with the SRA majority in the Stanora and with the security establishment to overhaul defence acquisition regulations, abolishing barriers that blocked foreign firms from bidding on "special projects" contracts. This allowed Kiravia to purchase Falkasian-built naval vessels, [[Fanerian]]-built aircraft, and other state-of-the-art foreign armaments. Though initially an unpopular move, especially in arms-manufacturing states like [[Ventarya]], the more militarily-active stance that these new armaments allowed Kiravia to assume in subsequent years ultimately proved profitable for the native Kiravian arms industry. | Candrin's most notable and enduring first-term policy was his initiative to rennovate the [[Kiravian Armed Forces]]. Candrin worked with the SRA majority in the Stanora and with the security establishment to overhaul defence acquisition regulations, abolishing barriers that blocked foreign firms from bidding on "special projects" contracts. This allowed Kiravia to purchase Falkasian-built naval vessels, [[Fanerian]]-built aircraft, and other state-of-the-art foreign armaments. Though initially an unpopular move, especially in arms-manufacturing states like [[Ventarya]], the more militarily-active stance that these new armaments allowed Kiravia to assume in subsequent years ultimately proved profitable for the native Kiravian arms industry. | ||
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===Overseas Expansion=== | ===Overseas Expansion=== | ||
===Final War of the Deluge, Trans-Atrassicism, and Resignation=== | ===Final War of the Deluge, Trans-Atrassicism, and Resignation=== | ||
A heavy strategic focus on [[Crona]] characterised what would turn out to be the closing years of Candrin's Prime Executure. Candrin led the Federacy through the | A heavy strategic focus on [[Crona]] characterised what would turn out to be the closing years of Candrin's Prime Executure. Candrin led the Federacy through the Nanzitolclatl Intervention - securing the independence of [[Chappaqua]] and establishing Kiravian paramountcy over [[Mid-Atrassic Crona]], and the [[Final War of the Deluge]]. | ||
The Candrin administration also worked to strengthen ties with existing Cronan allies, most prominently [[the Cape]]. | The Candrin administration also worked to strengthen ties with existing Cronan allies, most prominently [[the Cape]]. | ||
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It has been noted that Candrin's political career is very much a product of the [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|Anti-Party Law]] and the consequent formation of the SRA by opening the door to amalgamation of the [[Renaissance Party|Republican Renaissance Party]] with previously independent centre-right groups, such as Candrin's provincial Excelsior Party. He is notable for being the first SRA-backed Prime Executive to have never been a member of the Renaissance Party, nor even a [[Federalist Lodges|Federalist Lodge]]. Candrin was awarded an honourary membership by the Valēka Federalist Society while in office, but has not exercised any privileges conferred thereby. | It has been noted that Candrin's political career is very much a product of the [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|Anti-Party Law]] and the consequent formation of the SRA by opening the door to amalgamation of the [[Renaissance Party|Republican Renaissance Party]] with previously independent centre-right groups, such as Candrin's provincial Excelsior Party. He is notable for being the first SRA-backed Prime Executive to have never been a member of the Renaissance Party, nor even a [[Federalist Lodges|Federalist Lodge]]. Candrin was awarded an honourary membership by the Valēka Federalist Society while in office, but has not exercised any privileges conferred thereby. | ||
Candrin's economic policies have variously been described as {{wp|neoliberal}} or {{wp|ordoliberal}}. He is a strong proponent of a capitalist market economy, free trade and the free flow of capital, and privatisation, all of which he implemented as Governor of | Candrin's economic policies have variously been described as {{wp|neoliberal}} or {{wp|ordoliberal}}. He is a strong proponent of a capitalist market economy, free trade and the free flow of capital, and privatisation, all of which he implemented as Governor of Kaviska, and as Prime Executive. Candrin has often faced criticism from {{wp|social market economy|social-marketeers}}, {{wp|distributism|distributists}}, and [[Model Economy|Model Economists]] who accuse him of having centred materialist, utilitarian values in policymaking and prioritised corporate profits over {{wp|human development}}. | ||
<!-- While not a [[Coscivian National Congress|Coscivian nationalist]] ''per se'' and opposed to Coscivian nationalists on economic and migration issues, Candrin nonetheless believes in the fundamental importance of a Coscivian cultural identity for Kiravia and has said that "it has become the duty of the Kiravian Federacy, and of the Prime Executive, to defend and advance Coscivian civilisation as a whole." The colloquial title "Leader of the Coscivian world" began being applied to Candrin in the media after the liberation of [[Sydona Isles|Sydona]] and has remained a popular by-word for the [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy|Prime Executure]] ever since. --> | <!-- While not a [[Coscivian National Congress|Coscivian nationalist]] ''per se'' and opposed to Coscivian nationalists on economic and migration issues, Candrin nonetheless believes in the fundamental importance of a Coscivian cultural identity for Kiravia and has said that "it has become the duty of the Kiravian Federacy, and of the Prime Executive, to defend and advance Coscivian civilisation as a whole." The colloquial title "Leader of the Coscivian world" began being applied to Candrin in the media after the liberation of [[Sydona Isles|Sydona]] and has remained a popular by-word for the [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy|Prime Executure]] ever since. --> | ||
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==Personal Life== | ==Personal Life== | ||
Candrin was married to economist Síonna Alloin Candrin, by whom he has four grown children, until her death in 21206. His elder son, Iśdan Candrin, oversees liquefied natural gas shipping at Seaborne Corporation, and his daughter Máiread Candrin serves as Executive Vice President for Levantian Operations. In addition to the traditional family home in Valēka, which remains his [[Household registration in Kiravia|registered domicile]], Candrin also owns property in [[Enscirya]], a mountain lodge in upstate | Candrin was married to economist Síonna Alloin Candrin, by whom he has four grown children, until her death in 21206. His elder son, Iśdan Candrin, oversees liquefied natural gas shipping at Seaborne Corporation, and his daughter Máiread Candrin serves as Executive Vice President for Levantian Operations. In addition to the traditional family home in Valēka, which remains his [[Household registration in Kiravia|registered domicile]], Candrin also owns property in [[Enscirya]], a mountain lodge in upstate Kaviska, and a ranch in [[Æonara|West Æonara]] He is an accomplished polyglot, speaking Kaltan-Æran Coscivian, Kiravic, High Coscivian, Armakan, {{wp|Classical Gaelic|Liturgical Gaelic}} and modern Gaelic, Valosian, Caphiric Latin, and Ænglish. | ||
An Insular Apostolic by faith, Candrin is a parishoner at the Cathedral of St. Adomnán in Valēka, where he attends while at home. In Kartika, he celebrates Mass with Apostolic members of his senior staff in the private chapel at Kroveniren Hall. As a result of his Jesuit university education, Candrin is friendly toward the Society of Jesus and has donated to a number of Jesuit establishments in the Valēka Metropolitan Area. | An Insular Apostolic by faith, Candrin is a parishoner at the Cathedral of St. Adomnán in Valēka, where he attends while at home. In Kartika, he celebrates Mass with Apostolic members of his senior staff in the private chapel at Kroveniren Hall. As a result of his Jesuit university education, Candrin is friendly toward the Society of Jesus and has donated to a number of Jesuit establishments in the Valēka Metropolitan Area. | ||
He is a supporter of the Valēka Emperors [[Kiravian-rules football|fieldball]] team, the | He is a supporter of the Valēka Emperors [[Kiravian-rules football|fieldball]] team, the Kaviska Islanders ''[[sampakuv]]'' team, and the Caridosar Highlanders {{wp|shinty}} team. Although his sporting allegiances are well-known, Candrin has tried to avoid inflaming tensions in [[Intracity Sporting Rivalry in Valēka|his hometown's notorious fieldball tribal war]]. | ||
[[Category:KRV]] | [[Category:KRV]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:20, 8 May 2024
Andrus H.D.K. Candrin | |
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| Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy | |
| In office 1 Trîlua, 21198 – 2028 | |
| Chancellor | Sārden Ēvūrverd |
| Vice President | Adheritus Ilkashvar |
| Preceded by | Irasur Mérovin |
| Succeeded by | Adheritus Ilkashvar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 21133-21136[1] Valēka, Kaviska |
| Political party | Independent (since 211XX) Excelsior Party (211YY-211XX) |
| Spouse(s) | Síonna Candrin |
| Residence | Kroveniren Hall |
Andrus Hūvrius Dariur Kâmen Cólumba Oirenak-ú-Emblesèv Meþodius Mandur Sóenis Candrin is a Kiravian politician and the current Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy. A former shipping executive and Governor of his home state of Kaviska, Candrin was appointed Secretary of the Exchequer by the Federal Stanora in 21192 and played a key role in developing and implementing economic policies that led to explosive growth in the late 21190s. Associated with the economically liberal wing of the Federalist Republican Alliance, he stood for the office of Prime Executive in the 21197 election and won with 66% of the final electoral vote, succeeding Irasur Mérovin.
As Prime Executive, Candrin has worked to sustain high levels of economic growth while pursuing an active foreign policy. He directed a comprehensive naval modernisation programme and entered the Federacy into the Oceanic Defence Coalition before shifting to a regional focus on Ixnay in 21200. Domestically, his agenda has included interstate commercial reform, tax reform, and simplification of the immigration process. Though generally popular, Candrin has been criticised throughout his time in politics for the impact of budget cuts to domestic development spending on Second and Third Kirav, a perceived lack of attention to labour issues and health financing. Later in his tenure as Prime Executive, he was subject to criticism from certain sectors - including part of his previous support base - for the financial and human cost of Kiravian intervention in Crona and for a perceived soft-authoritarian turn in his style of administration.
Biography
Early Life
Candrin was born in Valēka, Great Kirav, to Hūvrius Candrin, an ethnic Kaltan buisnessman with Triśkan ancestry, and Mórea Ažoīn Candrin, of Kaltan, Armakan, and Valosian ancestry. He grew up in Perlitren, an affluent neighbourhood on Tandhurin Island inhabited primarily by forward-caste Northeastern Coscivians and Ruvanic Coscivians. His father was an executive VP at the Seaborne Corporation, a family-owned marine shipping company. Seaborne was founded by Candrin's great-grandfather, Éamon G.I.R. Candrin, and most of its top personnel were related to the Candrins by blood or marriage. The Candrin family held strongly to Kaltan ethnic traditions, and Kaltan Coscivian was the only language spoken at home (though Mórea Candrin was a native Armakan-speaker and all of the family was bilingual in Kiravic). While keeping his family strongly rooted in Kaltem culture and the Insular Apostolic Church, Hūvrius Candrin's international business interests caused the family to travel widely and take up the Latin and Ænglish languages, making them highly cosmopolitan by Kiravian standards.
He attended the local Apostolic parish elementary school, and then Columba Classical Academy, a Kaltan charter school. Here he learned High Coscivian, the prestige language of Coscivian civilisation, and encountered the works of the ancient philosopher Shafto, which continued to influence him into adulthood.
Candrin attended the Fāstervon Ignatian University in Valēka's Xarbasar canton, where he studied Applied Economics and Management and earned a certificate as a second-degree ekisdopon, indicating mastery of the Shaftonist canon. It was here that he met fellow student Síonna Alloīn, whom he married during his final year at the institution.
Seaborne Corporation and State Politics
Upon graduating from university, Candrin was given a position as a paymaster and schedule manager at Seaborne Corporation's depôt in the Midocean Islands, a Kiravian territory in the Pelagic Ocean. As a member of the company's controlling family (albeit a cadet branch thereof), Candrin was "cautiously avoided" by the Seaborne employees and fell deep into boredom at the outpost, spending most of his ample free time drinking with seaplane pilots and smoking cigars. After completing his year "in exile", he was relocated to Mystmar, Erinava in the same capacity. Here he chose to work under the false name Dallas McAllen, with his true identity known only to the depôt manager, but paid for his privacy with disrespect and disobedience from his predominantly Eshavian workers.
Returning to Valēka several years later, Candrin began working in Seaborne's government relations department.
Governor of Kaviska
Federal Politics
Service as Prime Executive
Early Policies
Candrin campaigned for the Prime Executure as the favoured candidate of the National Renewal establishment, promising to continue maket-oriented reforms, balance state and federal responsibilities to address new economic challenges, and promote economic growth. His early policies focused mostly on increased economic liberalisation and lower tax burdens, following the trajectory that he had set as Governor of Kaviska and which had been reproduced by Rénkédar and Mérovin on the federal level. Along with these policies, which were generally judged as successful, Candrin spearheaded a more controversial reform of the Federacy's immigration system. In order to encourage more trade and investment, Candrin relaxed the requirements for foreigners to become long-term and permanent residents in the Federacy (it should be noted that permanent residency is usually not a step towards naturalization, see Kiravian nationality law), and approved expedited visa procedures for nationals of select nations, such as Urcea and Caphiria.
Candrin's most notable and enduring first-term policy was his initiative to rennovate the Kiravian Armed Forces. Candrin worked with the SRA majority in the Stanora and with the security establishment to overhaul defence acquisition regulations, abolishing barriers that blocked foreign firms from bidding on "special projects" contracts. This allowed Kiravia to purchase Falkasian-built naval vessels, Fanerian-built aircraft, and other state-of-the-art foreign armaments. Though initially an unpopular move, especially in arms-manufacturing states like Ventarya, the more militarily-active stance that these new armaments allowed Kiravia to assume in subsequent years ultimately proved profitable for the native Kiravian arms industry.
Pivot to Ixnay
Overseas Expansion
Final War of the Deluge, Trans-Atrassicism, and Resignation
A heavy strategic focus on Crona characterised what would turn out to be the closing years of Candrin's Prime Executure. Candrin led the Federacy through the Nanzitolclatl Intervention - securing the independence of Chappaqua and establishing Kiravian paramountcy over Mid-Atrassic Crona, and the Final War of the Deluge.
The Candrin administration also worked to strengthen ties with existing Cronan allies, most prominently the Cape.
The Institute of Cronan Studies was chartered.
Candrin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2048 and offered his resignation to the Marble Emperor at the end of the corresponding Coscivian lunar month. He was succeeded in office by his Second Executive, Adheritus Ilkashvar.
Political and Philosophical Beliefs
A devotée of the foundational Coscivian philosopher Shafto, Candrin and has spoken of his Shaftonic belief in "ethical living as the ultimate challenge of human existence". He is a proponent of Shaftonist democracy and has authored a monograph, Ektarkar us Inigron Athnivirsá Tuonē Niluternax Astroāritá ("Structuring and Maintenance of Athnivirsa ['Proper Order'] in the Processes of the Modern Administrative State") on applied Shaftonist political philosophy. Reportedly, he has also penned a series of essays on Shaftonist legal theory and the relationship between natural law and Imperial law, which are to be published sometime after he leaves office.
It has been noted that Candrin's political career is very much a product of the Anti-Party Law and the consequent formation of the SRA by opening the door to amalgamation of the Republican Renaissance Party with previously independent centre-right groups, such as Candrin's provincial Excelsior Party. He is notable for being the first SRA-backed Prime Executive to have never been a member of the Renaissance Party, nor even a Federalist Lodge. Candrin was awarded an honourary membership by the Valēka Federalist Society while in office, but has not exercised any privileges conferred thereby.
Candrin's economic policies have variously been described as neoliberal or ordoliberal. He is a strong proponent of a capitalist market economy, free trade and the free flow of capital, and privatisation, all of which he implemented as Governor of Kaviska, and as Prime Executive. Candrin has often faced criticism from social-marketeers, distributists, and Model Economists who accuse him of having centred materialist, utilitarian values in policymaking and prioritised corporate profits over human development.
Candrin belongs to the Insular Apostolic Church and attends Divine Liturgy in Kroveniren Hall's chapel with members of his staff. Due to his education at a Catholic university, relatively Occidentalised lifestyle, and his coastal bourgeois background (a stereotype associated with Catholicism in Kiravian culture), Candrin was speculated by some in the commentariat to be a crypto-Catholic during his first campaign for the Prime Executure, which was denied by his press chief.
Personal Life
Candrin was married to economist Síonna Alloin Candrin, by whom he has four grown children, until her death in 21206. His elder son, Iśdan Candrin, oversees liquefied natural gas shipping at Seaborne Corporation, and his daughter Máiread Candrin serves as Executive Vice President for Levantian Operations. In addition to the traditional family home in Valēka, which remains his registered domicile, Candrin also owns property in Enscirya, a mountain lodge in upstate Kaviska, and a ranch in West Æonara He is an accomplished polyglot, speaking Kaltan-Æran Coscivian, Kiravic, High Coscivian, Armakan, Liturgical Gaelic and modern Gaelic, Valosian, Caphiric Latin, and Ænglish.
An Insular Apostolic by faith, Candrin is a parishoner at the Cathedral of St. Adomnán in Valēka, where he attends while at home. In Kartika, he celebrates Mass with Apostolic members of his senior staff in the private chapel at Kroveniren Hall. As a result of his Jesuit university education, Candrin is friendly toward the Society of Jesus and has donated to a number of Jesuit establishments in the Valēka Metropolitan Area.
He is a supporter of the Valēka Emperors fieldball team, the Kaviska Islanders sampakuv team, and the Caridosar Highlanders shinty team. Although his sporting allegiances are well-known, Candrin has tried to avoid inflaming tensions in his hometown's notorious fieldball tribal war.
- ↑ Candrin's date of birth is not known to the public