Mariel Landron

Mariel Bernarda Landron (born 4 September 1982, age ) is a Fortlese politician who is currently serving as the first president of the Second Fortlese Republic, having been elected in 2022. Overall, Landron is the ninth head of state of Fortland, and the third who was democratically elected. She is a founding member of the Viva Fortland political party. Landron is politically a liberal conservative.
Landron was born in 1982 to a working family. The youngest of three children, Landron was quickly enrolled in the BJFF as a young girl, as was state policy in the then-communist one-party state. While in high school, she had an interest in dance and aspired to join a ballet company. After graduating from university with a degree in agriculture, Landron was hired to work on a farm owned by her grandparents some thirteen kilometres east of Berging. Landron later became aware of western media in 2004 through literature smuggled through the Fortlese border.
Landron would become a major opponent to Fortland's then-ruling party, the Fortnite Party. She especially despised High Chancellor Jayden Albert, whom she saw as lazy and unfit to rule. Landron was a key supporter of the Fortlese riots of 2021 and 2022. When the Fortlese government fell, Landron gathered with multiple centre-right political activists to form Viva Fortland, considered Fortland's first major post-communism political party.
Landron was the favoured candidate of the international community come election time. She ran under a campaign of free healthcare, LGBT rights, and a general repairing and funding of areas poorly served under the previous regime. Landron and her party would win around 25.4% of the vote in the 2022 election, as well as 137 seats in the Senate. Under Fortland's first-past-the-post election system, Landron was elected president of Fortland, and was inaugurated on May 1st, 2022, not only as the Second Republic's first president, but also as the first female head of state of a Fortlese country.
==Life==
===Early life===
Landron was born Mariel Bernarda Landron on September 4th, 1982 in St. Henderson. Landron would reside in an apartment in the suburb of Rosafila. Landron's father was a blacksmith who worked in a shop across from the family apartment. Landron's mother was a teacher at Escuela Primaria Para Niñas Rosafila (Spanish name meaning Rosafila All-Girls Elementary School), the local all-girls school that Landron herself later attended between the ages of six and twelve.
Landron was enrolled into the Fortlese Female Youth Brigade at age ten, as was the law of Fortland at the time for all young females. She was a talented dancer, and was regarded highly by her pupils and instructors. Many also noted her shyness when present around a large surplus of people, which became a concern as the years went on. While in high school, Landron aspired to join a ballet company.
Despite her aspirations, Landron's parents seeked to get her working in the larger Fortlese industrial sector. She, as would her two older brothers Nazario and Jimeno, would go on to attend Colegio Civil de Henderson, and graduated with a degree in agriculture.
=== Post-education work ===
After graduating from university, her parents decided to put her agriculture degree to good use, and sent her out to a yoyleberry farm owned by her grandparents in the small village of Tumbaverde, some thirteen kilometers east of the city of Berging. The farm was a supplier of yoyleberries to many grocery stores in the local borough.
=== Early activism ===
Landron began campaigning against the Fortlese government in 2004 when she was given a copy of Jonathian literature smuggled over the Jonathian border by a friend who also worked on the farm.
=== Role during the 2021 and 2022 Fortlese riots ===
Landron would rise to major prominence around the 2021 Fortlese riots, where she led a series of protests against Jayden Albert's government.
=== Political career ===
Following the removal of Jayden Albert from power, Landron would join the rebuilding effort. Together with several other liberal conservative members of the newly-established Senate, she would found the Viva Fortland political party. Landron would be elected leader of the party.
=== President of Fortland (2022 - present) ===
Landron was inaugurated on May 1st, 2022. Her inauguration ceremony was slightly toned down due to security concerns as well as the removal of communist symbolism in the ceremony. Among the attendees included then-prime minister of Jonathia Jonas Albert.
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