Lily Danyon

Lily Milford Danyon (born 4 April 1980, age ) is a Jonathian politician affiliated with the Liberal Party currently serving as the 38th and current prime minister of Jonathia since 2023. She succeeded Jonas Albert. Previously, she served as the 39th deputy prime minister of Jonathia between 2017 and 2023, and Secretary of State between 2013 and 2015 under Joshua Hammond.
Danyon was born and raised in Vonderburg, Northern Province. After a brief tenure at Vonderburg University, she joined the Liberal Party in late 2005. A year later, she was elected as the member of parliament (MP) for Northern Province during a by-election after the resignation of Will Muldoon. In 2013, she was chosen by then-prime minister Joshua Hammond to be the Secretary of State. While in this position, Danyon met with Piers Zexter, her Canadish counterpart, on a number of occasions. She supported the legalisation of same-sex marriage in 2014.
Despite losing the position of Secretary of State in 2015 after the Republican victory in the election that year, Danyon rose in the Liberals' ranks, and soon became one of the higher-ups in the party. She would gain some notability for her involvement in the Midnight Inquiry in late January of 2015. She was voted in as the deputy prime minister of Jonathia in 2017, alongside prime minister Jonas Albert. The pair had been elected in a landslide victory. They would be re-elected twice; in 2019 and 2021. In mid-2022, Danyon won the Liberal primaries in a striking majority. She selected Aliyah Williams, another close ally within Jonas Albert's cabinet, as her deputy.
Danyon was elected as prime minister in the 2023 election, and was inaugurated on February 21st, 2023. Her campaign was focused on getting Jonathia's economy back on track following the COVID-19 pandemic. Danyon's government introduced sweeping welfare initiatives as part of the 2023 budget. Despite the Liberal's intense competition in recent opinion polls with coalition partner JFP ahead of the upcoming general election, Danyon endures as a broadly popular leader.
==Life==
===Early life (1980 - 1998)===
Danyon was born on April 4th, 1980, in Vonderburg, Northern Province. She resided in the suburb of Wilmerhouse by Catholic parents, though she has since separated herself from the church. Between 1993 and 1997, Danyon attended Wilmerhouse College.
===University and pre-political life (1998 - 2005)===
Between 1998 and 2005, Danyon moved to the suburb of Verningsford in order to attend the University of Vonderburg. Danyon studied law and politics and graduated in 2005 with a degree in the latter field. In 2000, Danyon joined the Liberal Party and participated in some campaign events around the Vonderburg area. Her political opinions, however, put her at odds with her father, who disavowed any contact with her.
=== Liberal Party member (2005 - 2013)===
After graduating, Danyon soon became a proper party member in 2005. After Will Muldoon's resignation as governor of Northern Province, Danyon was selected as the party's candidate for the upcoming by-election. She won the by-election by a small margin against Republican Ron Wakerman.
===Secretary of State (2013 - 2015)===
Danyon was selected as Secretary of State in 2013, under the government of Joshua Hammond.
===Pre-Albert government era (2015 - 2017)===
Danyon was one of the main contenders for the Liberal nomination for the 2017 election, but eventually conceded after financing problems arose. She was later selected by Jonas Albert as his running mate in June 2016.
=== Deputy prime minister of Jonathia (2017 - 2023)===
Danyon was inaugurated as deputy prime minister on January 21st, 2017.
===2023 election campaign===
left|thumb|219x219px|A campaign poster used by the Liberal campaign during the 2023 election.
As the 2023 campaign season heated up, voluminous public polling showed Danyon as Albert's most probable successor. She remained generally ahead of other Liberal candidates in national polls throughout the campaign.
On July 3rd, 2023, Danyon announced her candidacy for the Liberal Party leadership. Three months later, on October 1st, 2022, Danyon was selected as the Liberal candidate for the 2023 general election. She selected Aliyah Williams, at the time Secretary of Health, to be her deputy.
===Prime minister of Jonathia (2023 - present)===
Danyon was elected as prime minister in the 2023 election, after creating a coalition government between the Liberals and the SDP, the Greens, and the JFP. She was inaugurated into the position on February 20th, 2023.
In her first two weeks as prime minister, Danyon signed 23 executive orders.
==Political views==
thumb|270x270px|Danyon speaking to voters and supporters at a party event in Voureg, in November 2022.
Danyon is typically regarded as a slightly centre-left politician with social democratic beliefs. Active in Liberal Party movements while at university, she now regards herself as a moderate.
Danyon has proposed raising taxes on wealthy individuals, saying "the money that billionaires hoard can be used for making life for others better." However, her attempts at this have received significant opposition from the Nationals and the Jonathian Party. She voted for the Student Debt Relief Act of 2018 and the Trans-Alexandrian Partnership. Danyon strongly supports the Affordable Care Act, and is opposed to discontinuing free healthcare. Danyon opposes cannabis legalisation, but has said she would not prevent a referendum on the topic from occurring.
Danyon supports same-sex marriage and voted in favour of the Same-sex Relationships Act of 2014. In 2018, Danyon joined Jonas Albert in participating in the Gelta City Pride Parade. In 2020, Danyon voted in favour of recognising genderfluid people under Jonathian law.
Danyon has supported abortion rights throughout her career as a politician. During the 2023 election campaign, Danyon called on provincial governments to "protect the right to have an abortion." However, abortion rights were ultimately not included in the Liberals' manifesto for 2023, leading to a drop in the polls for the party.
==Personal life==
Danyon does not openly discuss her personal life, though details have seeped through as a result of accounts from family and friends, records from the UoV, and her 2019 biography Getting Through Government. At the moment, Danyon's personal residency is located in Vonderburg.
Danyon has one brother, Robert. Both are excommunicated Catholics and are currently atheist. Danyon, like her predecessor, is not married.
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