Ulizs Ganzyszmi

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MP Ulizs Ganzyszmi e GK OhK
Ulizs Tadyn Mazosk Ganzyszmi
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Leader of the KRP
In office
11 September, 1896 - 24 February, 1904
Constituency Leader of the KRP
Preceded by
Nazje Hagin Lamariz
Succeeded by
Rauva Garizin
Member of Parliament
In office
1 October, 1903 – 1 October, 1909
Constituency Tauba
Majority 226,448 (1903)
Preceded by
Nasje Alku Narzas
Succeeded by
Aarya Veldsaeh
Member of Parliament
In office
1 October, 1891 – 1 October, 1903
Constituency Upper Azsaeh
Majority 118,220 (1897)
Preceded by
Gadyse Beticz
Succeeded by
constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
17 May, 1866
Died
29 April, 1953 (age 86)
Citizenship Kryfona
Nationality Standard Kryfona
Political party Kryfona Royalist Party (1886-1921)
Political affiliations Kryfona Loyalist Party (1935-1953)
Parents Zosej Ganzyszmi and Navria Tadyn Mazosk
Spouse(s) Ketysin Laudu (1901-1927; d. 1927)
Children Laijek Ganzyszmi; Valen Ganzyszmi
Residence 10 Osel St.
Education University of Azsaeh
Religion Irreligious

Ulizs Tadyn Mazosk Ganzyszmi, Great Kryfona, OhK (For. Kryf. /ˈˌls ˈɡænˌzɪs.m/; 17 May, 1866 - 29 April, 1953) was a Kryfona politician, a member of parliament to Upper Azsaeh from 1891 to 1903 and Tauba from 1903 to 1909, and the eleventh leader of the Kryfona Royalist Party, leading the party from 1896 to 1904. Born on 17 May, 1866 to a lower-class family in the small town of Taly Pets, just north of Azsaeh, Ganzyszmi was raised in a deeply traditional household. His mother Navria Tadyn Mazosk was a stay at home mother, and father Zosej Ganzyszmi worked where he could to support the family, having never completed a formal education. Although the family lived well, they were quite poor and usually were the beneficiaries of government aid; Ulizs spent much of his early life eating an inconsistent amount on a day-to-day basis, and for a period of time when Ulizs was around six the family almost moved out of their house and into smaller accommodations in nearby Azsaeh. The family ultimately was able to keep their home, but these experiences with poverty and living on the brink of being bankrupt deeply influenced Ulizs' later life.

Ulizs otherwise had a fairly unremarkable childhood, attending primary education in Taly Pets for its duration and seldom having difficulty there. He was an average student with a slightly above average work ethic, and although he had a chronic tendency to underperform, he seemed quite intelligent to many of his teachers. In 1881 at the age of 15, Ganzyszmi "graduated" from primary schooling with a "low-primary degree"; his father had become severely ill and with his mother unlikely to find work, Ganzyszmi was the only likely candidate for financially supporting the family. Shortly after his graduation, Ganzyszmi found work in local politics, despite having no previous interest in the subject.

Although he was not politically affiliated at the time and would not be so until the age of 20, Ganzyszmi worked with a local chapter of the Royalist Party from 1881 to 1886, supporting traditionally marginalized and ignored groups in Azsaeh and aiding in organizing for campaigns. This was a reasonably lucrative field of work for him–it was certainly enough to support his family–and Ganzyszmi enjoyed the work that he did for the party. His job primarily consisted of going around and interviewing people about their concerns, and then working with the party to address them. His work in rural Azsaeh on the party's behalf eventually inspired him to join the party in 1886, and he would remain a member of the party until 1921. Because of his experience, upon joining the party Ganzyszmi was promoted to a District Manager for the Upper Azsaeh constituency and its people. Ganzyszmi was quickly promoted from this position, and became an overseer for the party in the province of Azsaeh as a whole just two years later. In 1890, having by then largely become enamored with the idea of politics, Ganzyszmi sought a position as the MP of the Upper Azsaeh constituency, from which he saw an opportunity to continue the work he had done in rural Azsaeh. The upper echelons of the party supported this move (although he would be fairly young for a member of parliament), and Ganzyszmi stood and easily won the seat in the 1891 elections. He was 25 at the time of his election.

Ganzyszmi was one of the youngest MPs among the 1891 Royalist delegation, and despite his fairly conservative upbringing and background, was far and away the most liberal Royalist MP from the Northwest region of the Kingdom. He was less driven by politics in this regard as he was by his desire to help support policies that he thought would benefit the people of Upper Azsaeh–in some cases, this meant that Ganzyszmi supported legislation that other Royalists did not. This was not a particularly popular action with many of the more conservative Royalist members of the delegation, who considered him in many respects to be "Royalist in name only" despite his otherwise fairly consistent support of the party. Although the upper ranks of the party did not pay Ganzyszmi much mind, his support of some Loyalist pieces of legislation put him at odds with members of the far-right in the This dislike came to a head in 1896 when Ganzyszmi was primaried–a rare occurrence–by far-right Talos Anmes for the Upper Azsaeh constituency in an effort to oust him. However, Anmes, an Areimsede native, was considered an outsider by the population of Upper Azsaeh, and was solidly defeated. Ganzyszmi was reelected with a majority of 118,220 in 1897, besting his 1891 majority of 104,752.

In early 1894, Ganzyszmi was promoted internally into the upper echelons of the KRP. An exact date of his promotion is unclear, but by 29 March, 1894 he was considered to be a part of the party leadership. Despite his youth he was recognized as a very significant figure in the party and by some as representative of the future of the party–that is to say, more liberal and more populist. When it became clear that Nazje Hagin Lamariz, then in power, was soon to step down, Ganzyszmi was one of the first members of the party to be floated as an alternative. The far-right wing of the party would not stand for this; they protested Ganzyszmi's potential leadership as "likely to ... split the party," but as 1894 and 1895 progressed it became clear that Ganzyszmi was the favorite among at least a significant plurality of the party's leadership. Outside of Czesztonek Ejys, himself a self professed far-righter, no other candidates coalesced any sort of support. By 1896, the leadership was essentially guaranteed to go to either Ganzyszmi or Ejys; when Lamariz stepped down on 11 September, 1896, the choice for most Royalists was fairly easy. Despite Ejys' efforts, Ganzyszmi was elected by the party leadership handily, and Ganzyszmi became the eleventh leader of the Royalist Party.

Ganzyszmi's leadership of the KRP was fairly quiet in its early years, despite the ruckus which surrounded it internally. After he won his seat in 1897, Ganzyszmi pledged that he would make an effort to represent both sides of the party, which was a promise that he made well on. Ganzyszmi's policies shifted considerably to the right after his ascension to leader of the KRP, although in private he made it clear that he only did so in an effort to keep the party stable. The far-right of the KRP was not powerful per se, but it was a necessary wing of the party and without it, there would be no chance of winning majorities in the foreseeable future, as far as Ganzyszmi was concerned. It was thus a bullet which he had to take, lest the party continue to lose as it had in previous elections. The far-right noticeably warmed to him in the two years that followed. Ganzyszmi most notably opposed the ascension of Vyfarla in 1900, despite having previously supported integration of the province, as a concession to the far-right, who greatly opposed its ascension in one piece on electoral grounds. He was a supporter of the monarchy-in-exile later in 1900 when the Kryfona Civil War broke out, and worked to produce pro-royalist propaganda during its duration.

Despite all of this, Ganzyszmi's days as leader of the party were numbered. Redistricting from Vyfarla's ascension necessitated he vacate his seat for the 1903 elections, and so in the 1903 elections he stood in the less-extremist province of Tauba, where he went on to win with a majority of 226,448. Royalists also won the 1903 elections, but with only a 39 seat plurality, they were forced to broker a patkoaliza with four Loyalist members of parliament. This patkoaliza based government was disastrously weak, and with no power to leverage the Loyalists (who were supported by the YKM), Ganzyszmi was forced to pivot heavily to the left. This pivot was decried by the far-right and even some of the moderates of the KRP, and perception within the party of Ganzyszmi quickly began to drop in the wake of the 1903 elections. Several major Royalist bills were scuttled when it became clear that they lacked the votes and, in a particularly painful blow, Royalist opposition to the Yaraan Act, 1904 was embarrassingly defeated by a 46-35 vote in which four Royalists defected. Seeing the party fragment under him, and with infighting taking place, Ganzyszmi opted to resign from his essentially-untenable position as leader of the party on 24 February, 1904. He also announced that he would not stand again for election in 1909.

Ganzyszmi's remaining term was quite quiet. He did not make headlines as he had when he led the party throughout his period as just an MP, and he relatively enjoyed this fact. The party continued to shift left despite his absconding, and by the time Ganzyszmi left his seat in 1909, the KRP had essentially completely changed as a party. Ganzyszmi nonetheless remained a member of the party for another decade and a half, serving as an adviser and continually making rounds in his home province of Azsaeh. He left the party citing changing values in 1921. He was partyless until 1935, when he joined the Loyalists, where he also served as an adviser. He remained an adviser to the Loyalists until his death in 1953. During his time as a vagabond in politics, he had his two children with spouse Ketysin Laudu, who he had married in 1901.

Ganzyszmi's health began to fail in 1950, when he was 83. A series of small strokes left him partially paralyzed on his left side in 1951, and he was declared legally blind in 1952 after gradually degenerating vision finally caught up with him. He spent most of the first three months of 1953 in hospital for chronic infections, and eventually in April of that year he came down with a particularly serious infection. Despite the efforts of doctors, Ganzyszmi died on 29 April, 1953 in a Wavoldes hospital. He was 86.