Lüc da Schir

Senator Lüc da Schir, O.Be. (b. December 28th, 1997) is a Talossan citizen from the province of Benito. He is a former three-term Prime Minister, a former leader of the Moderate Radical Party of Talossa and held various positions in Cabinet between 2014 and 2018.

He was granted citizenship on March 21st, 2012/XXXIII.

Lüc da Schir

Senator for Benito In office: 1 Oct 2014/XXXV - Preceded by: Tric'hard Carschaleir Followed by: incumbent

Seneschal In office: 1 Jan 2017/XXXVIII - 29 Jul 2018/XXXIX Preceded by: Cresti Siervicül Followed by: Ian Plätschisch

Seneschal In office: 19 Sep 2014/XXXV - 24 Jun 2015/XXXVI Preceded by: Glüc da Dhi Followed by: C. Carlüs Xheraltescù

Biography

Lüc da Schir was born in Pordenone, Italy and currently mostly resides in Padua, where he is studying as an Computer Engineering undergrad.

Politics

Da Schir identifies as a centrist pragmatist and a moderate reformist, which has generally identified the MRPT's ideology under his tenure as leader. His legislative accomplishments as main sponsor or key cosponsor notably include electoral reform, provincial catchment area reform and various budget bills. He is also involved in attempts to overhaul Talossa's constitutional framework.

2012-2014 (Opposition and Da Dhi Cabinet)

While his political career actually started among the ranks of the RUMP, he quickly moved towards the Moderate Radical Party of Talossa, which he joined before the elections to the 44th Cosa, on April 15th, 2012. He sat as an MC for the 44th and 45th Cosa; he was also elected as Maestro of Benito on July 22th, 2013.

After former party whip Alexandreu Soleiglhfred renounced to being renominated in late 2013, da Schir was appointed to replace him, simultaneously becoming the new deputy leader of the party. Following the MRPT's electoral win, he was selected to serve as Minister of STUFF in party leader Glüc da Dhi's cabinet. As party whip, he also led the MRPT's parliamentary caucus during the 46th Cosa.

2014-2016 (MRPT leader, first Cabinet, junior coalition partner)

Following Glüc da Dhi's decision not to stand for reelection as leader of the MRPT, da Schir was elected as the new leader; he also announced his candidacy to Benito's Senate seat on July 23rd, 2014, in the province's first election to a full senatorial term since 2012, a race he won unopposed. He closed his three-term tenure in the Cosa without missing a single vote, and he resigned from his post as Maestro of Benito on October 22th 2014, following his election as Senator.

Despite the MRPT losing a share of its centrist vote to the reformed Progressives and the newly formed Liberal Congress, the party won once again first place among the coalition parties and da Schir succeeded to his fellow party member da Dhi at the helm of the government, forming the First Da Schir Cabinet. At almost 17 years of age, he was the youngest Talossan ever to be sworn in as Prime Minister, and only the third Seneschal to hail from the province of Benito, the previous being Thomas Buffone over twenty-two years before.

The term was notable for the estabilishment of the Interior Ministry; da Schir also touted it as "the first truly successful government in a long time", but was criticised as being distant from daily Wittenberg conversations, and attracted some controversy - such as by firing Clerk of Corts Bradley Holmes, an opposition Senator, and by botching the initial cabinet list by confusing the name of two coalition partners, listing Munditenens Tresplet as Foreign Affairs Minister instead of Munditenens da Biondeu. The government was famously bombarded by cartoonist Elo Cutor from Beric'ht Talossan; da Schir remarked that the RUMP was "bringing the opposition to the government outside the Ziu and inside the pencil of anonymous cartoonists".

Da Schir also served as Attorney-General pro tempore in April 2015 when, at the Cosa's dissolution, Txec Róibeard Nordselva resigned to return to his job as a magistrate. As such, he had to challenge King John's role in the Proclamation Crisis in the Uppermost Court, a petition that was dismissed by the Cort, with Nordselva himself voting against.

In the rundown to the elections for the 48th Cosa, the two coalition partners to the left of the MRPT (ZRT and Lib) allied in the Free Democratic Alliance; the Liberal Congress's Carlüs Xheraltescu having previously proposed an alliance to the Moderate Radicals too, which was rejected due to the longstanding ModRad tenet of running on its own terms by not making deals before an election. The newly formed pact, which enjoyed a theoretical advantage of 52 seats to the 42 of the MRPT coming in to the elections to the 48th Cosa, managed to narrowly stay in front of the Moderate Radicals by a single vote after the elections, and as such took the lead of the broad coalition which had been governing Talossa since early 2014. As such, da Schir accepted a role as Distain in Free Democrat leader Xheraltescu's cabinet, temporarily filling in for Owen Edwards as Acting Finance Minister as well in an arrangement that effectively turned permanent over time.

During the term, he was honored with the Order of Benito on April 29th 2015 by Maestro Vitxalmour Conductour.

With the party in disarray after a poor performance in the coalition, da Schir took a number of steps towards reorganization, such as offloading some of his tasks to other members (Ian Plätschisch being appointed to the office of Party Secretary after a three-Cosa tenure by da Schir) and initially advocating for not joining any coalition in the next government. He later reneged on this, viewing with unease the increasing polarisation of Talossan politics between RUMP and Free Democrats, and attempted to form a "centrist pole" together with the TNC and Progressives. This never happened, however, even though a similar agreement was reached separately with the TNC's leader Breneir Itravilatx.

The party suffered an emphatic and expected nine-seat loss; however, it still held the balance of power together with the other centrist parties, as the MRPT and TNC combined were tied in seats with the eventual winner, the Dien Tresplet-led Free Democrats. Deeming unacceptable the Free Democrats's demands for external support, with a number of members in both parties still wary and resentful of the previous coalition's outcome, the MRPT joined a coalition government with the RUMP and the TNC, led by Cresti Siervicül, with da Schir accepting a role as Distain.

In his new role, da Schir focused on legislative projects and took it upon himself to improve the Cabinet's inner workings, estabilishing a forum that has been in use since then. He was reportedly happy with the overall atmosphere, a coalition with the RUMP helping him to know better people he had earlier regarded as political adversaries.

2017-2018 (second and third Cabinet)

After a good performance by the party in the previous coalition, da Schir led the party to their then-biggest success, winning 79 seats in the Cosa and first place overall. He was also reelected as Senator for Benito, winning 11-5 against his Free Democrat opponent Taiwos. This ushered in a second term as Seneschal for da Schir, heading a coalition between the Moderate Radicals and the Free Democrats. He briefly served as Acting Mençei from August to October 2017.

In the run up to the 51st Cosa elections, da Schir won reelection to a third term as leader of the MRPT. Taking advantage of a positive record and a general sense of apathy in the other parties, da Schir led the Moderate Radicals to a second straight record breaking election, gaining four more seats and over 40% of the vote share; the party also coming close to achieving an overall majority in the Senate, but ultimately losing the decisive race in Maricopa, ostensibly due to the Free Democrats refusing to endorse the Moderate Radical candidate and largely choosing either Béneditsch Ardpresteir or to abstain. This led to the previous coalition being renewed and a third term as Prime Minister.

In the waning days of the 51st Cosa, da Schir announced he would partially retire from national politics, by stepping down as leader of the MRPT one Cosa in advance and ruling out any involvement in the next couple of Governments, concurrently declaring his bid for a third term in the Senate. He planned to focus the next phase of his Talossan life on Senatorial activity - where he mentioned he would seek to take a more independent stance, while still having no plans to relinquish his Moderate Radical membership -, legislative projects and reforms (such as parliamentary bylaws and Organic reform) and on other interests, such as journalism and political punditry.

As part of the elections for his successor as Leader of the Moderate Radicals, he nominated and endorsed Ian Plätschisch, da Schir's long time deputy as Party Whip for most of the latter's tenure as leader. He was ultimately replaced as leader by Plätschisch on June 8th, and as Seneschal on July 29th.

2018- (semi-retirement)

Da Schir was opposed in his bid for a third term in the Senate by a fellow three-term Seneschal, albeit of the Republic: Free Democrat Eiric Börnatfiglheu. After a somewhat bitter campaign, he won reelection with 75% of the vote, an increase of 8% on his previous reelection bid. He was nominated and confirmed to sit on the first incarnation of the Senate Rules Committee, and proposed a slate of ten standing rules to form the core of the Senate's new bylaws. At the end of the 52nd Cosa, six of those ten had been approved by the Senate, with the remaining four yet to be discussed. He was elected Mençei on November 30th. In his role as the Senate's presiding officer, he tried to increase awareness of the institution and activity, such as by promoting and issuing official order papers. He would later be re-elected as Mençei for the 53rd Cosa with the support of six colleagues.

After the dissolution of the 52nd Cosa, Da Schir unexpectedly "suspended" his membership in the MRPT, albeit without quitting outright, citing a general sense of apathy and indifference in the party, an outdated manifesto, and noting that, especially with the recent defection of former leader Plätschisch, he would likely have been left running the party alone without being the actual leader. He announced he would sit in the Senate as an independent Moderate Radical. The MRPT ultimately folded in early March 2019.

Da Schir and his sister Erschéveþ ran for the 53rd Cosâ with an interim label, winning 23 seats; following the Free Democrats's electoral victory, he once again took part in negotiations and agreed to support Miestrâ Schivâ's minority government.

Journalism and Punditry

Da Schir started off his involvement in journalism as the chief editor of the Talossan Observer news company, which he founded in the late March 2012. Due to a chronical lack of time and to his involvement in national politics, however, the outlet has been dormant since mid-2014. He was one of the two runner-ups to the title of Best Journalist of 2014 and his piece "The Talossan Observer's Analysis on the January 2014 General Elections" won the Article of the Year award, both as part of the 2014 Talossan Journalism Awards. He also contributed to the first issue of Preßeu Zespenat with an article about his last thoughts as Prime Minister, and contributed to the launch of RT Radio, although he pulled out of its management early on.

After the Observer, he began releasing exit polls for almost every general election from 2015 onwards, around half an hour before polls are closed. The exit polls are created by assigning to each individual citizen a chance of voting for each party, and simulating the outcome 10.000 times; each citizen also has a chance of showing up to vote, that decreases over time using a formula derived from the turnout pattern of previous elections, and influences the eventual outcome of the projection by predicting the final turnout ahead of time.

In 2019, instead of working on an exit poll, da Schir published a voting advice tool dubbed the "Talomat", based on the German "Wahl-o-mat", with the help of a number of other Talossans. He also created a delivery website for The Péngöpäts Times's live streams, collaborating with with Munditenens Tresplet and Glüc da Dhi to bring Talossa coverage of the results of the April 2019 General Elections.

Other interests

Lüc da Schir is the manager of Talossan Fantasy Football team Els Ceumarscheirs (The Skywalkers), a play on his own name, which has competed in the league since 2013. The team was the runner-up in the 2016 edition and ended in third place in 2018, winning the regular season with a 11-3 record.

He won the first Talossalympic gold medal in September 2018, winning the Rock-Paper-Scissors competition by placing second in the round robin, then going on to defeat Glüc da Dhi and Ian Plätschisch without dropping a round. He credited his knockout stage performance to the usage of a statistical model to predict his opponent's move.

Da Schir served as bandsman tubist, despite actually playing the trumpet, in the 1st Platoon of the Zouaves of the Royal Bodyguard with the grade of Corporal, before being dismissed in 2019 during the reformation of the Zouaves.

Offices

The Ziu

Preceded by Tric'hard Carschaleir

Senator for Benito Senate for the 47th Cosa - Present

Succeeded by Incumbent

Preceded by Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h

Mençei del Senäts 30 Nov 2018/XXXIX - Present

Succeeded by Incumbent

Member of Cosa

44th  45th  46th

National

Preceded by Glüc da Dhi

2nd Leader of the Moderate Radicals 11 Aug 2014/XXXV - 8 Jun 2018/XXXIX

Succeeded by Ian Plätschisch

Preceded by Cresti Siervicül	Seneschal 1 Jan 2017/XXXVIII - 29 Jul 2018/XXXIX	Succeeded by Ian Plätschisch
Glüc da Dhi	19 Sep 2014/XXXV - 24 Jun 2015/XXXVI	Carlüs Xheraltescù

Preceded by Miestrâ Schivâ	Distain 25 Jun 2015/XXXVI - 20 Dec 2015/XXXVI	Succeeded by Miestrâ Schivâ
Miestrâ Schivâ	4 Apr 2016/XXXVII - 31 Jan 2017/XXXVIII	Ian Plätschisch

Preceded by Owen Edwards

Finance Minister 3 Jun 2015/XXXVI - 20 Dec 2015/XXXVI

Succeeded by Alexandreu Davinescu

Preceded by Alexandreu Davinescu

Minister of Stuff 24 Jan 2014/XXXV - 20 Sep 2014/XXXV

Succeeded by Sevastáin Pinátsch

Preceded by Carlüs Xheraltescu

Head of the New Citizen's Committee 25 Jan 2014/XXXV - Oct 2014/XXXV

Succeeded by Beneditsch Ardpresteir

Provincial

Preceded by Tímoþi Asmourescu

7th Maestro of Benito 22 Jul 2013/XXXIV - 22 Oct 2014/XXXV

Succeeded by Vitxalmour Conductour

Preceded by Istefan Perþonest

2nd Arvitieir Prima of Benito 27 April 2014/XXXV - 16 April 2016/XXXVII

Succeeded by Istefan Perþonest

See Also

• First Da Schir Cabinet
• Second Da Schir Cabinet
• Third Da Schir Cabinet
• Talossan Observer
• Moderate Radical Party of Talossa