Jay Kasper

Jay Kasper is a P&D MP in Sheaman who was elected in the Dauken & Restonton 2020 By-Election who is aged 30 years old. He was born on the 14th of April 1993 to Gordon Kasper and Eilidh Kasper in Aberdeenshire, Scotland until moving to Sheaman in 2007 for family reasons and becoming a citizen of Sheaman in 2010.

## Early life & Early Adulthood 1993 - 2020

Jay Kasper was born on the 14th of April 1993 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to Gordon Kasper and Eilidh Kasper. Kasper was diagnosed with autism at the age of 10 leading to him hardly being able to make a single friend, struggling in any type of social situation, and failing to understand people's emotions. Kasper's family left Scotland in 2007 due to a major family feud earlier in the year and they immigrated to Martoen in summer. Kasper remarked his first friend when he was 14 called Katie Deddlin who he called his "best friend" and also called it "a turning point" for his life. The family all became citizens of Sheaman in 2010 after a long period of waiting for their citizenship to be accepted and the fear of their VISAs expiring.

Kasper would continue school until he was 18 after which he left and pursued a career in photography but soon lost interest and only two years later he quit. Around this time Kasper would begin dating his best friend, Katie Deddlin and eventually marrying her in 2016 after dating her for three years. They would go on to have a child called Ava Kasper in 2017 when Kasper was 24 but Kasper refused to have another child after Ava.

## Member of Parliament: 2020 - Present

In 2020 the C&U MP for Dauken & Restonton died at the age of 87 causing a by-election to be called. Kasper, who had joined the Progressive & Democrats Party earlier in the year, put forward his name for the P&D candidate for the constituency. To his surprise he was chosen as the P&D candidate for Dauken & Restonton and began a month of campaigning for the constituency. Kasper won 32.4% of votes in the by-election but the state of New Traet had recently passed a new act that meant that any by-election that lead to not majority from a party would mean that a 2nd round had to be called with the top two candidates. The 2nd round was expected to be close and the results led to Kasper winning 55.4% of votes against the C&U candidate, William Bertie.

Kasper was sworn in as MP and first attended the chamber on the 3rd of August 2023. Kasper proposed the Abortion Act 2020 that amended the Abortion act 2013 by once again allowing an under-16 abortion to take place without the knowledge or consent of the parent. The Abortion Act 2013 made abortions more difficult for under 16s by requiring the parents to know about the abortion but not being allowed to disallow the abortion entirely. The 2020 act was massively successful among left-wing parties in parliament but the only problem was C&U as they held a majority in parliament. Hazel Willow eventually caved on the bill and asserted her progressive stance by voting in favour of the bill and eventually the 3rd round led to 190 - 179 MPs voting in favour of the bill.

Kasper voted against the Border Crossings Act 2021 calling it a "complete failure of the rights of human beings" after the act was passed. In 2021 he would stand for reelection in his seat and due to the rise of P&D in the polls and also because the party refused to switch Kasper over to a safer seat to contest. Kasper would win his seat