Youmaton

Youmaton (also known as Youma) is a former Australian politician who served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Australia. During her time in office, she served as 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. Under their time in office, AustraliaTonight was brought into a high degree of activity, hosting historical Q&A sessions with many prominent politicians as well as highly viewed election night coverage. Youma retired as a reporter after resigning as Member for Cunningham on the 12th of May 2019, wrapping up a year long career.

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 served as 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 elected 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 2nd on the Socialist ticket, Youma was elected to a seat on the convention after a wave of preferences from then Socialist Leader Bsharri's landslide. 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 Youma-Forza 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, with Hoogstra taking the position of deputy. 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 Centre Alliance 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. Being the first left wing government since the collapse of the Bsharri government, Youma was tasked with implementing increasing social and science funding, as well as the allocation of additional funds towards education, health and infrastructure as key points. Youma's first term saw the implementation of recommendations of the Constitutional Convention into an Australian Republic, with the implementation of the "Constitution Alteration (Establishment of Republic) Bill 2019" setting the date of a Republic referendum for the 1st of June 2019. The Left Coalition's term ended abruptly a few weeks away from the designated dissolution date due to the double defection of Treasurer Horror-HQ whom landed with the Liberal Party. The last measures of the Left Coalition government saw a shift in Australia's foreign stance, with the ending of arms sales to the Kingdom of Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

11th Parliament
The March election proved to be highly successful for the Social Democratic Party, with political commentators and fans of the SDP dubbing it the "pink wave", Youma lead their party to a near majority of 9 out of 19 seats in the lower house. With this near majority within the House of Representatives, Youma set forth negotiations with the United Democratic Party to form government, thus creating the Third Youmaton Ministry. [insert more about the term]. The term ended early after numerous ejections of SDP mp's left the government without the numbers to govern, thus leading Youma to call an early election. By the time of the election, Youma remained as the sole Social Democratic Party MP.

12th Parliament
The May 2019 Election saw the Social Democratic Party almost entirely wiped out across the country, after a deal was struck between the Socialist Party and the Liberal Democratic Party to preference against the SDP in the house. This lead to Youma being the only SDP member elected to parliament, edging out challenger stranger195 in a closely contested race. After the writs for the election had returned, the SDP renamed to the Australian Labor Party, who reconfirmed Youma as their leader once again. Youma was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives after their only competition dropped out of the race to support them, and sought to implement change to encourage stronger debate and more activity. Youma unexpectedly resigned as both Speaker of the House and Member for Cunningham on the 12th of May, triggering the Cunningham by-election, May 2019.

Notable Legislation
Youma-Forza Republic Model

Territory Freedoms (Euthanasia) Bill 2018