Syinu Talga

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MP Syinu Talga e YK
Syinu Arvŭ Talga
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Leader of the YKM
In office
26 July, 1963 - 1 January, 1974
Constituency Leader of the YKM
Preceded by
Veim Faldŭ
Succeeded by
Hosina Farŏn
Member of Parliament
In office
1 October, 1957 - 1 October, 1969
Constituency Drzseil
Majority 342,662 (1957)
Preceded by
Veim Faldŭ
Succeeded by
Hosina Farŏn
Member of Parliament
In office
1 October, 1951 - 1 October, 1957
Constituency Aarŭ
Majority 226,553 (1951)
Preceded by
Talise Osgon
Succeeded by
Veiti Diuli
Personal details
Born
26 August, 1923 (age 100)
Citizenship Kryfona
Nationality Yaraan
Political party Yaraan Kryfon's Movement
Parents Vezi Arvŭ and Garani Talga
Spouse(s) Dŭna Perz (1948-1968)
Tasia Salŭis (1968-2009)
Children Geitys Talga, Tresmane Salŭis Talga
Residence 4 Onasies Av.
Education Drzseil University
Religion Irreligious

Syinu Arvŭ Talga, e Yarankryfŏnes (born 26 August, 1923) is a former Yaraan politician and current adviser to the Yaraan Kryfon's Movement best known for being the party's leader from 1963 to 1974 and an MP who represented two constituencies for the party: Aarŭ from 1951 to 1957, and Drzseil from 1957 to 1969. Talga was born in 1923 to a middle-class family from the nominally-Yaraan city of Drzseil. His father, Garani Talga, had been elected as a local MP in the Yaraan House for the YKM just a few years before the younger Talga's birth, and his mother Vezi Arvŭ worked locally for the party. Thus, Talga was raised with a distinct interest in Yaraan politics, and at the prompting of his father in 1939 became a member of the YKM.

Talga spent most of his early career with the party doing busywork and serving as a field agent in his hometown of Drzseil. During this period, he attended the relatively small Drzseil University, graduating after five years with a specialty in politics but a focus on communication. In his time at Drzseil's (then single) university, he was introduced to a small group of student activists who just a year later in 1943 would go on to found the Yaraan Secession Front. Talga, largely sympathetic to the cause, was one of the early members of the Front, and would remain a member of the Front until it was assimilated by the YKM later on in its existence.

After several years of remaining in the lower rungs of the YKM, Talga was promoted to a district manager for the Drzseil area in 1945, and stayed there until 1947, when he was again promoted, this time to regional manager of the entirety of Upper Yaraa. Nonetheless, he found the work exceptionally tedious and exceptionally boring, and thus resolved that in the coming parliamentary election he would stand as a candidate for one of the cities of Yaraa. He privately announced his intentions to do so beginning in 1948, and in 1949 notified the party that he wanted to represent the party as an MP. By then, he had amassed a relatively significant following within the party, and so was considered for a multitude of seats which would be empty in 1951. He was ultimately assigned Aarŭ.

Talga won in Aarŭ handily in 1951, winning with a 220,000 vote majority despite being an outsider; he was one of eleven YKM MPs to be elected to the Kryfonsparliszaiye in 1951. Surprisingly, he was still not well liked by the citizens of Aarŭ at first, and it was not until 1952 that he had a positive approval rating among his constituents. Gradually, however, the city came to like him, and by 1957 he was among the most respected politicians in the city. Although he could have certainly run for reelection and won by that point, Talga then decided he would run for his hometown constituency of Drzseil–Veim Faldŭ, the MP in that seat, had announced he would become the party's leader and thus would not contest his seat in 1957. The party was quick to approve Talga's move, and he won the Drzseil constituency by over 300,000 votes in 1957. He would represent the constituency until his resignation in 1969.

Talga was very well liked among his constituents in Drzseil, and it came as no surprise to anybody when he announced he would be seeking reelection to the seat. A wrench was thrown in his plans however when the Purge scandal exploded midway through 1963, resulting in the arrest of MPs Zyŏn Mekar and Ryfald Mirŏ on 23 July, and the resignation of Veim Faldŭ and seven other significant party members in the Thursday Night Massacre on 25 July. As basically the only high-ranking official left standing, Talga ascended to the position of leader of the YKM, which he would hold until 1974. He won reelection–albeit with a much smaller majority–in Drzseil a little over two months later.

Talga's reign exploded with controversy early, as he defied orders from the Awaseq government to immediately dissolve the YKM's government in Yaraa. This prompted Awaseq to order the invasion of Yaraa on 1 August, 1963, and prompted the Kryfonsparliszaiye to ban all YKM MPs from holding their seats. Talga immediately fought the ban, taking it to court and ultimately getting it rescinded after 22 days; Yaraa, however, remained occupied well into 1964 and exploded into the Yaraan Crisis soon thereafter. Beyond this early flurry of events, Talga's reign was a rather uneventful one; the government was burned severely for its handling of the Invasion and subsequent Crisis, and Talga was not one to interrupt them in doing so. Under Talga's guidance, the YKM won 2 additional seats in the 1963 elections, and then two more in 1969. The forcibly dissolved government of the YKM was also re-formed in the local elections of 1963 and 1969 through heavy campaigning on the part of Talga. The groundwork of the 1975 campaign of the YKM, although occurring under Hosina Farŏn, was largely set up by Talga immediately before he opted to retire from the party.

By 1967, it was clear that Talga was rather worn out, not least because of the not-great terms he was on with the government. More broadly, however, he was simply growing tired of holding such significant positions in the YKM. In 1968, a little over a year and a half before the 1969 elections, he announced that he would not seek reelection in Drzseil. Talga tapped Hosina Farŏn to take his position in the constituency, which Farŏn then won handily. As early as 1970, Talga was taking a similar approach to his position as leader of the YKM. Although he ultimately stayed on for several more years, in 1973 he announced with finality that he would be resigning effective 1 January, 1974. Like with the Drzseil seat, Farŏn was tapped by Talga to take his place. Subsequently, Talga took up an advisory role for the party–to this day, he remains in this advisory position. He is the longest tenured adviser to any party in the Kingdom.

Talga has a very open life, and is well known for being transparent about his actions. From 1948 to 1968, Talga was married to Dŭna Perz, and the two had one child, Geitys Talga. In part because of the stresses of Talga's life at the time, the two mutually separated in 1968. Perz died of natural causes in 2006, at the age of 84. After he and Perz separated, Talga married Tasia Salŭis, and the two also had a child, Tresmane Salŭis Talga. The marriage between Talga and Salŭis lasted 41 years before Salŭis also died of natural causes in 2009, aged 89. Talga's two children, today aged 61 (Geitys) and 43 (Tresmane), are both successful and have their own children. In 2005, Talga, his two spouses, and his two children were awarded the Yarankryfŏnes Medal for their service to Yaraa. Talga also has a street named after him in both Drzseil and Aarŭ, and a school named after him in Tidkae.