Zoé D’aureville

Zoé D’aureville is the current incumbent President of Isidorrey.

Early Life
Zoé was born in Criqueville on the 15th of October 1969 (she is currently thirty six). She was born to mother, Charlotte D’aureville and father, Richard D’aureville. Brought up in a middle class household, Zoé never experienced economic hardship while growing up, in fact she has said that she had an ‘easy and happy childhood’.

However, her parents would spit up when she was sixteen and her father refused to finance her further education. Zoé Went straight into work to support her mother who could no longer support herself economically. After working in multiple low paying jobs for ten years, she would see a large amount of injustice due to lack of health and safety, disregard for workers and she even discovered on three occasions that she was being paid less than her male counterparts for doing the same jobs.

Political Activism
These injustices she saw led to her becoming a political activist at the age of twenty five. She was extremely populist and campaigned with multiple fringe groups considered to be ‘far left’ in order to support workers rights, equality and justice for those that had been harmed by lack of government action for workers. For two years she was the deputy chairman of 'Social Action!', a small proclaimed socialist group that was dissolved in 2001. In the 1994 Presidential election she would support independent candidate, Claire Roy and in the 1995 general election she would vote for ‘Le Nouveau Parti Travailliste’.

After seeing the failure of the 1995 government, the so called ‘socialist coalition’, to institute workers rights and better welfare, she decided to use her knowledge of political activism to start building a base for herself as a politician.

2004 presidential Bid
At the age of thirty five she would run in the 2004 presidential election after seeing workers right move back another step under the premiership of Dominique Alon. Zoé Was not a member of any political party, she did not have a university degree or even any post eighteen education, and she had hardly any funding for her campaign. However she would win with 46% of the vote in the first round and 61% of votes in the second round, beating Dominique Alon. She campaigned purely as a populist and did not openly support a particular ideology, although many say that she is a communist due to her previous activist group affiliations.

Time in Office
Since being elected she has signed the new 2005 Assembly of Deputies Government into being official. She has also signed:
 * the Emergency Farmer’s Response Bill, a bill to give aid to farmers that had been affected by Storm Ross
 * the 2005 National Budget, which included cuts to police funding and added education and welfare spending as well as never seen before changes to corporation and income tax aimed at taxes the rich and large businesses more
 * the Education Reform Bill, which aimed at fixing funding problems in schools as well as heightening of communications between the government and the education sector
 * The Constituent Assembly Bill, which is a bill to begin action towards making a new constitution and implementing electoral reform
 * the Equality Bill, which makes leaps forward into protecting workers from discrimination in the workplace and when being hired
 * the Civil Partnership Bill, which allowed same sex couples to enter a legally binding romantic relationship contract similar to that of marriage