Youmaton

Youmaton (also known as Youma) is the 42nd Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Pre-Political Career
Youma joined the sim in early March of 2018, to a divisive debate on South African immigrants. They looked around for political parties, but remained as an independent as they wished for freedom within debates.

Australia Tonight
In May 2018, Youma was hired to be a reporter for Australia Tonight. After a month of off and on training and reporting, they presented two back to back interviews of BellmanTGM and Woof that proved to be incredibly popular. They currently conduct most of the interviews on Australia Tonight, and is the networks electoral analyst. They grew their influence in AustraliaTonight through conducting most of the interviews on the network, and conducting the networks electoral analysis. Towards the end of 2018, she became the owner of the network after AnswerMeNow1 retired from the network.

6th Parliament
Youma first entered the political sphere when they ran for the seat of Whitlam in a by-election. They lost this election, as it was won by the incumbent Pirate Party.

7th Parliament
Youma was first elected to the Lower House at the 7th election, in the seat of Chisholm, where they ran as an Independent candidate. However, shortly after being elected, Youma controversially joined the Socialists Party. During the 7th Parliament and the Bsharri government, Youma was the Minister for Education and the Minister for States, Territories and External Territories. At the end of the term, and after then Prime Minister Bsharri dissolved the Lower House, resigning from the Socialists Party, Youma was appointed as the new leader after beating Drunk King Robert in the leadership ballot.

Republic Constitutional Convention
Youma was a key part of the constitutional convention into an Australian republic. As part of it, they were a strong advocate for such, and voted in favour of it. They helped create the constitutional model known as the Forza-Youma constitution, which advocated for a directly elected head of state.

8th Parliament
Youma entered the 8th election as a candidate for the seat of Sydney, which they won. As the leader of the Socialist party, Youma became the opposition leader to PineappleCrusher_'s government. Soon after the opening of this parliament, the Socialists Party and the Australian Labor Party merged to form the Labour Party. Youma remained leader of this party after the merge. Youma was one of the most prominent politicians within the 8th Parliament, most notably becoming Speaker after the resignation of Phyllicanderer and having their bill "Treasury Laws Amendment (Axe the Tampon Tax) Bill 2018" as the first bill to pass the parliament in over 4 months.

9th Parliament
Youma lead the newly formed Left Coalition (made up of the Labour and Greens parties) to 8 seats in the House of Reps (6 LAB, 2 GRN), however in the process they were beaten in the seat of Whitlam by CA leader Tbyrn21. Soon after the election, Labour deputy Gredsen resigned as Senator, opening the path for Youma's return to lead the Left coalition. After a long negotiation period between all parties, and the formation of the second BloodyChrome government, Youma was once again designated as Opposition leader. During the 9th Parliament, there was a generalised move for bipartisanship on legislation, with the parliament working together to pass key drug legislation (Reason), altruistic surrogacy (Labour), and prostitution legalisation (UDP). During the term, the Labour Party collapsed due to factional infighting, and Youma emerged from the ruins of the Labour party under the new banner of the Social Democratic Party.

Formation of the Social Democratic Party
Main article: Collapse of the Labour Party (2018)

On the 3rd of October 2018, after the Unity faction of the Labour Party broke away from the general party, Youma turned to their Social Democratic Party to determine the future course of the SocDems of the party. The faction almost unanimously voted to leave the Labour Party and form the Social Democratic Party. Youma was elected unanimously as leader of this new party. This period of instability severely hurt the left, with all by-elections during the time falling out of the hands of all left wing parties, leading to the near collapse of the Left Coalition. By the end of the term, the total number of MP's within the Left Coalition had collapsed to 4 MP's.

10th Parliament
After a surprise victory in the December election with the Left Coalition winning a majority in the House of Represenatives, Youma immediately begun negotiations with the Centre Alliance to secure confidence and supply to ensure that legislative matters could pass both houses. These negotiations proved successful, and Youma was soon after sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia. [put more here]

11th Parliament
The March election proved to be highly successful for the Social Democratic Party, dubbed the "pink wave", Youma lead their party to a near majority of 9 out of 19 seats in the lower house. [put more here]

Notable Legislation
Youma-Forza Republic Model

Territory Freedoms (Euthanasia) Bill 2018