Kylie Spence

Kylie Spence was the second Prime Minister of Durlius, a Leader of the Opposition, Governor of Hern, and a Member of Parliament for Durlius.

Early Life
Spence was born in 1907 outside of Sweden and later immigrated to Durlius in 1926. She attended a Swedish unknown university where she received a law degree. Spence's mother, Kenta, was a Swedish member of Parliament, and her father was also involved in politics as a local mayor.

Spence was apparently a very quiet child, but became wildly involved in politics at the end of her high school career and was quite good at it.

Provincial Governor of Hern
Just a year after ariving in the nation, Spence became a huge member of the People's Traditional Party, a local party in the state of Hern looking to become part of an independent state (later fulling becoming part of Durlius as an Island).

Spence was immediately favored in the party and after serving as a Mayor's Chief of Staff, she became the nominee for Governor of the Provincial state of Hern in early 1928. Pushing her electoral strategy hard on the message of taxes (which were at 52% in the state, including government taxes), Spence ran a fiercely negative campaign against Liberal incumbent Ryan Kern. He blasted her back for being a "Home-wrecker in the state and knowing nothing about it" and for "having no experience with economics" in which he had a masters degree.

In what became a 5 million dollar election, Spence beat out Kern 50.2% to 49.8%, a 1,132 vote difference.

Tenure
Spence served as provincial governor for eight years until 1937, being re-elected by 62.3% of the vote in 1933. As promised, she lowered taxes 11% as governor, removed the state sales tax and gas tax, helped build more car manufacturing plants, a necessity to the local economy, and lead a firm government coalition in the state legislature.

Nationally, Spence became involved in the separatist movement and was a popular voice in the Traditional Party, a party wishing to separate but offering more potentially violent manners to do so.

She ended up being a signer on the declaration of Independence in 1939. Spence ended her tenure as governor early by resigning in 1937 (the people elected her to an eight year term, loving her deeply by polling ballot and Hern basing term length on the percentage of the vote). Spence decided to instead help found the Conservative Party and prep for the coming election.

Party Founding
Spence helped found the Conservative party and based many of its principles off the British conservative party, a popular group. Leading a group of four provincial governors, she spent over 6 months in 1940 crafting the parties' message and preparing for the coming election in 1942, with the date finally being set. She spent most of 1941 prepping party candidates to run good campaigns for Parliament and spoke around the nation getting party members.

The Party took off quickly, and she was a popular voice in it. Speaking over 5 times on major televised programs, Spence advocated for reduced taxation, strong government, strong defense, strong and involved foreign policy, and a hardworking parliament. Her voice was quite popular, however, fell short of the Liberal leaders at the time who were much more experienced in national campaigning, three of them having worked on campaigns in Britain.

Leadership Election
Spence ended up being so popular in the party, only a few lowly candidates challenged her in the first leadership election. All the founders were convinced she would make the perfect leader and could lead them to the best victory possible. Spence won on the first ballot with 321 votes out of their 356 candidates for parliament. She found herself leader of the party in early 1942 and continued to campaign hard.

Election 1942
Spence campaigned on her same spoken principles all throughout 1942 and gave over 1,150 speeches, 2,000 appearances, and did 213 fundraisers for individual parliament candidates. After ending her campaign exhausted on election day, she told the press she was thrilled by how much they had accomplished and how many people she had meet.

The party lost the 1942 election, but came short by only about 15 seats of the majority. Due to the slim loss, the party founders voted to keep Spence as leader as they were convinced she should become Prime Minister. Spence became Leader of the Opposition.

Leader of the Opposition
With the Conservatives' defeat in the 1942 election, Spence became the Durlius Leader of the Opposition. Becoming famous for not interfering with the government, she was convinced they would burn themselves down. Instead, she mocked the Prime Minister's weak actions and often appeared in television ads to do so. The party during this time raised far more than the Liberals and were able to keep approval of the liberals low through frequent speeches and tours while they governed.

Spence was known also for being fiercely combative in Question time with the Prime Minister, which was a televised debate every Wednesday between the two leaders. Over time, the citizens of the nation fell in love with her abilities as a debater, policy idealist, and speaker, and as such, her approval ratings went through the roof from 39% to 61% during the Liberals government and rule of Durlius.

Spence began prepping for the next election as soon as they lost the 1942 election. Preparing top notch candidates, raising huge sums of money, and speaking constantly on the same policies as before, she lead a unified and very strict force of candidates who were able to carry the Conservatives to victory in 1945.