Dajeila Zasane

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MP Dajeila Zasane
Dajeila Merjekapils Zasane
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Leader of the UKP
In office
1 October, 1990 – present
Constituency Leader of the UKP
Preceded by
Karze Hadzsje
Succeeded by
none
Member of Parliament
In office
1 October, 1993 – present
Constituency Teras
Majority 829,972
Preceded by
Karze Hadzsje
Succeeded by
none
Personal details
Born
10 July, 1968 (age 55)
Citizenship Kryfona
Nationality Standard Kryfona
Political party United Kryfona Party
Parents Sarine Zasane and Kalisa Merjekapils
Children Osina Zasane
Residence 20 Marisina St.
Education University of Vrlxesena at Teras
Religion Irreligious

Dajeila Merjekapils Zasane (For. Kryf. /ˈdɑˌ.lɑ zɑ.sɑ.nɛ/; born 10 July, 1968) is a current Kryfona MP in the Kryfonsparliszaiye and the leader of its largest party, the United Kryfona Party. Zasane has led the party since 1990, when Karze Hadzsje stepped down, and he has been an MP in the Kryfonsparliszaiye since 1993, when he took the seat of Hadzsje. Zasane has historically served and continues to serve the Teras constituency, which is widely considered to be the most pro-UKP constituency in the Kryfona Kingdom.

Zasane was born in Teras to a middle-class family which had a history in politics. His father, Sarine Zasane, served as the secretary to the UKP from its founding in 1956 to its first victory of seats in 1963, while his mother, Kalisa Merjekapils, was an MP in the Parliament of Vrlxsena from 1963 to 1981. Although Zasane originally did not aspire to be a politician, and in fact hoped to be a journalist when he grew up, he gradually became invested in politics and at the age of 16 in 1984 applied to be a member of the United Kryfona Party. He began attending classes at the University of Vrlxesena at Teras for a political degree a year later, in 1985. During his studies, he befriended then-party leader Karze Hadszje, who would go on to mentor Zasane for the next few years, and in the process would set Zasane up for becoming the eventual leader of the UKP. Over the course of the rest of the 1980s, Zasane gradually worked his way up the hierarchy of the UKP, becoming a district manager for the party in Teras in 1987. From there, he was appointed to regional leader for the entire province of Vrlxsena by Hadszje, the position from which he worked until he ascended to the position of party secretary in early 1989. Zasane graduated at the top of his political science class that same year.

Zasane had been working as the party's secretary for a little over a year when Karze Hadszje officially announced he would be resigning from his position as the party's leader on 1 October, 1990. The UKP at the time lacked a vice leader position (Zasane later created one) from which someone could ascend to the position of leader, meaning that the next person in the line of succession was Zasane. Although Zasane was reluctant to take the position of leader from Hadszje–he would be the youngest party leader by a significant margin–he eventually did accept his inevitable position. He officially became the party's leader on 1 October, 1990, at the age of 22.

Zasane has led the party since 1990, and under him, the party experienced both its first taste of governing when it formed a split government in 1999, and its first taste of leading the Kryfonsparliszaiye when it won a plurality of seats in 2005. Since 1990, the party has won 7 additional seats and has never had an election where it has lost seats. In 2008, the party also experienced a massive gain in local seats, aided by the general popularity of Zasane and the UKP. Under the Zasane UKP, the Kryfona Kingdom has experienced relative prosperity and, for the first time in decades, has experienced negligible amounts of terrorism. Subsequently, Zasane has been one of the most popular figures in the Kryfona Kingdom since 2004. He has been praised for his significant track record defending Yaraan and Tuszkean rights, as well as the rights of property owners; nonetheless, he has been criticized by both the left and the right for being too conservative and too liberal, respectively.