Helos Piktari

Helos Tsaniphai Piktari Χελος Τσανηφαυ Πυκταρυ
Official portrait, dated to December 1900
Character
Titles
President of Etruarand (1900-1906)
Date of birth:	19th March 1874
Date of death:	30th June 1960 (aged 86)
Nationality:	Etruarac
Ethnicity:	Evurskan Etruarac
Language(s):	Etruarac language Atraelish language
Gender:	Male
Height:	5' 1"
Family
Spouse(s):	Atina Tsimpikas
Children:	1
Father:	Philip Piktari
Mother:	Lahen Tsaniph
Occupation History
Education:	University of Evurska
Field(s):	Law
Religion:	Astralism (Secular; non-practising)
Occupation(s):	Politician
Previous:	Leader of the Etruarac Federal Party (1900-1906), President of Etruarand (1900-1906)
Affiliations:	Etruarac Federal Party (1897-1933)      Etruarac Labour Party (1933-1943)
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Helos Piktari (Etruarac: Χελος Πυκταρυ; born 19^th March 1874) was an Etruarac Politician who served as Leader of the Etruarac Federal Party (FED) and President of the Etruarac Republic from 1900 to 1906, and is recognised as the youngest serving president in Etruarand’s history, being elected at the age of 26. During his term as president, Piktari towed the party line, advocating federalism and state capitalism, coming to power through his protectionist policies and liberal rhetoric - typical FED tactics - that earned him a secure working class vote. In 1901, with the global outbreak of the World War, Piktari championed the Etruarac war propaganda idealising the nation as a liberatory force of democracy across the western world, despite the nation joining the war with a clear imperialist intent that would only reveal itself after the war.

Aprincipled reformist at heart, Piktari would not quit politics after being ousted from his position of party leader in 1906 and the post-WWII discrediting of the Etruarac Federal Party. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1933, Piktari defected to the surging Etruarac Labour Party, where he would advocate a reformed anti-war, centre-left political position until his retirement in 1943, forming part of a nucleus of centre-left labour politicians that would eventually found the New Labour faction in 1977.

Gallery

Photograph of Piktari during a public announcement of Etruarand's involvement in the First World War, January 5 1901