Andrus Candrin

Andrus H.D.K. Candrin
Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 Trîlua, 21198
Chancellor	Sārden Ēvūrverd
Vice President	Adheritus Ilkashvar
Preceded by	Irasur Mérovin
Personal details
Born	c. 21133-21136 Valēka, Kiygrava
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 Kiygrava, 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 Shaftonist-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 Taństan workers.

Returning to Valēka several years later, Candrin began working in Seaborne's government relations department.

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 Kiygrava 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.

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 Nanseetucket 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 Kiygrava, 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 Kiygrava, 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 Kiygrava 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.