Andrew Harvings

Andrew Brannon Harvings (born 1 January 1981, age ) is a Jonathian politician aligned with the Republican Party who served as the 36th prime minister of Jonathia between 2015 and 2017.
While in his youth, Harvings worked on his family's farm. After graduating from the University of Miller in 2004, Harvings had a brief stint as a truck driver. In 2007, Harvings unsuccessfully ran for the Millerian provincial council. He later returned to his family's farm before he joined the Republican Party, later being appointed Minister of Health in 2010 after Robert Fink's resignation. As Minister of Health, Harvings successfully sponsored legislation for vaccine distribution reform, helped increase funding for the NHS, and reformed the healthcare tax. In the 2015 presidential election, Harvings defeated Liberal incumbent prime minister Joshua Hammond after a narrow and contested win that sparked a chain reaction in the Liberal Party that later led to the sudden rise of Jonas Albert.
Upon taking office, Harvings signed a major tax cut program and supported an education reform bill. He pushed for multiple economic acts and trade agreements, including the Open Market Act of 2015. Following the uncovering of a Jonathian drug trade, Harvings ordered an investigation that led to the arrests of 300 people, and later trialling of 61 people. He signed the Drug Trade Prevention Act (commonly known as Detpa) in order to authorise surveillance of suspected drug dealers. Harvings also advanced several constitutional changes, including those proposed by former prime minister Caron Bush. In late 2016, a group of anti-Harvings rebels within the Republican Party attempted to depose Harvings; this failed after the government the rebels set up, the Council of Ministers, collapsed due to instability. Despite this, Harvings' polling numbers dipped after a strong campaign by opposition parties in reaction to the crisis. Harvings subsequently lost to leader Jonas Albert in a landslide Liberal victory in the 2017 election.
After leaving office, Harvings returned to Miller, where his prime ministerial library opened in 2019. He was among the most popular and unpopular presidents in Jonathian history, having received the highest recorded approval ratings in the wake of the creation of Detpa, but one of the lowest such ratings during the 2016 political crisis. Harvings's term as prime minister has been rated as below-average, although public and scholarly favorability of his term have improved since leaving office.
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