Anthony Hubris

Anthony Sebastian Zebedee Hubris Npeter-Maximillian Stourton II (born 19 September 1960) is a Nordalan politician, journalist, and former professional tennis player who has served as the President of the Vestean Union since 2014. He had a short professional tennis career from 1978 to 1981 representing his university, the University of Teeford, in the Nordalan National Tennis League. He was elected as the first Conservative Union Party MP for the Teeford Central constituency in 1990 where he would retain his seat for 20 years before taking a seat in the VU Parliament. During his career as an MP, he was selected to be the Nordal Special Envoy to the VU, succeeding Derrick Birgand MP. He would be the Special Envoy to the VU for 8 years where he successfully negotiated an economic package for Nordal which saw the Nordalan Reis Stirling pegged to the Vestean Aurei at a fixed rate - a manifesto pledge by his party, the Conservative Unionist Party.

Anthony Hubris studied Sports Science and Management at Teeford University hoping to pursue a career in professional sports. However, at university, he joined the Conservative Unionist Society where he quickly found a passion for politics. He was reported to have remarked "Sport is my passion, but I am the passion of the CUP. I go where needed and currently the country needs me".

He graduated the Social and Economic School of Burton with a 1st Honours degree in International Relations and obtained a masters degree in Lindian Studies from Burton University soon afterwards.

Political Career
Originally seen as the new face of a changing CUP, Hubris entered the political world with little experience and exposure. Only known locally within Teeford University, the CUP decision to nominate Hubris as the Teeford Central CUP candidate was seen as a gamble from within the party. The then CUP Party Leader and future Prime Minister, Samuel Walthamstow, had given his support for conservative grassroots organisations to have a say in the selection processes for CUP MPs a year earlier; enabling the Teeford University Conservative Unionist Society to successfully lobby the local Conservative Union Party to nominate Hubris as their candidate for the upcoming 1990s election.

During the election campaign, Hubris managed to dodge controversy as a relatively unknown candidate while his opponent, the incumbent MP, Thomas Mansfield, was mired in an expenses scandal. The low popularity of Mansfield and Hubris' promotion of progressive CUP manifesto pledges enabled Hubris to win the seat with a majority of 482 votes. On the 17th of June, 1990, Hubris became the first CUP candidate to win a seat in Teeford where he would hold the seat for 20 years until he was nominated for VU parliament.

Views on Communism
Hubris has made multiple comments on various left-wing ideologies during his career, especially on Communism. During a 1992 interview, Hubris described the Communist Party of Welwyn and Rewland as "an unfortunate outcome of the democratic system" and expressed his displeasure at the fact that the party was granted a political campaigning licence by the Electoral Commission in 1985, after being banned during the 40s. "... an unfortunate outcome of the democratic system in Nordal is that parties like the CPR have the capacity and capabilities to exist and thrive, tricking the electorate about their miscontent and eventually leading to a political standoff that could have disastrous consequences. I do hope the people running the [Electoral Commission] considered carefully what a renewed Communist party means for the future of peaceful politics in Nordal."

In a private members meeting between CUP members in 1999, Hubris was reported to have compared socialism and social democracy to early symptoms of a "growing cancer". "... socialism and its democratic aspects are dangerous - masquerading as harmless movements but in reality are akin to the first symptoms of a deadly growing cancer..." When asked to clarify his points in a committee inquiry into his remarks, he denied comparing the ideologies to cancer but remarked that he still believed the ideologies were dangerous in certain contexts.