Camille de Lautrec
| Countess Camille de Lautrec | |
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| Countess de Lautrec in 2013 during a television broadcast | |
| Viceroy of Savam | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Monarch | Valentin III |
| Preceded by | Fabien de Pont-Lisoux |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Camille Lucille Constance de Lautrec-Tula 28 Floridy 1959, (age 65) Tulles, Occois-Garde |
| Citizenship |  Savam
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| Religion | Cairony (reformed) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Savam
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| Service/branch | Imperial Airforce |
| Years of service | 1980-1982 |
| Rank | Adjutant |
Camille de Lautrec, Countess of Lautrec-Tula (full honorifics: Son Éminence Madame Camille de Lautrec-Tula, comtesse de Lautrec-Tula, vice-reine impérial de l'Empire savamais), is the current Viceroy of Savam since her election to the office in the 2013 elections. She is a leading moderate politician, active in politics since the early-1990s.
Electoral record
Lautrec won the viceregal election of 2013 with a 53.1% majority in the run-off, against liberal and incumbent candidate Fabien de Pont-Lisoux. She is the third women to hold that position. A moderate-led coalition won the concurrent legislative elections, giving Lautrec majority support in the Commons. She is also currently enjoying a majority in the High Assembly. Lautrec was re-elected at the 2018 election with a 51.7% majority in the run-off; however, her parliamentary support declined in the concurrent legislative elections, weakening her majority and forcing her to negotiate supports from some members of the liberal faction. Most observers predict she will loose control of the High Assembly at the next election there.
Politics
Lautrec is considered a left-of-the-centre moderate, having formed an alliance with a large contingent of the radicals. Her parliamentary coalition also includes the Verborian Block and the New Orangists, as well as some affiliates of the Clerical association. After the 2018 election an number of liberals have offered support as well, after negotiating some changes in her government's agenda; this however caused some radicals to defect.
Her election in 2013 ended 15 years of liberal control over the viceregal office, which was the second part of a political era in Savam known as the Riche Trentaine (the "wealthy thirties") that span from 1984 to 2013 during which the Liberals controlled the federal executive except for one four year term in 1994-98. Her subsequent reelection cemeted that the Riche Trentaine had indeed ended.
A major theme of her 2013 election campaign was to return to more balanced government intervention in the economy after a period of disengagement and laissez-faire under Fabien de Pont-Lisoux and his parliamentary block, and preceding liberal governments. As a result she garnered a significant support in the lower and middle-classes who felt aristocratic polyindustrials had benefited too much under the liberals. One of her most significant action in office was to not renew the 30-years tax farming contract that Maison Gisbert SN had over federal tax revenues for Quènie since 1984 (a contract signed by liberal Viceroy Marc de Moraille). The Imperial Revenue Directorate took direct control of federal taxation in the state again. Another important topic during her first term was the implementation of pension reform in order to ensure the system's long-term viability through the expected demographics changes of the next decades; pensions are a complex topic in Savamese politics as they fall under shared responsibilities of the states and federal government.
In foreign affairs, she has not diverged considerably from the previous administration's policies in Messenia, continuing the growing trend of pushing Savam's Sabamic neighbours toward closer integration with the Empire, which many see as a form of surreptitious re-unification expansionism (the 2018 election only reinforced this trend as liberals in Lautrec's new coalition are strong supporters of special citizenship and residency laws such as the one passed by the Pont-Lisoux administration in 2012). After several years of focus on Inner Joriscia under liberal governments Lautrec has re-orientated some of Savam's colonial focus by engaging a program to increase Savamese interests in Eastern Ascesia via the state-controlled Compagnie coloniale nationale, and to encourage settlement in Savamese Serania.
Personal details
Lautrec was born in Tulles, in the state of Occois-Garde, the first child of Countess Lucille de Lautrec; she has two younger siblings. Her lineage is originally issued from the Brocquian nobility, but have been established in Occois-Garde for 2 generations when they branched from the main line; the Duke of Piémont is her 2nd cousin. Pons d'Azémar, her father, a literary author and honor noble from Ostelac, is known for his activity in the promotion of Samezean culture within the Empire. She inherited the County of Lautrec-Tula when her mother died of cancer in 2006; she previously was the Honorable Lady Madame de Lautrec-Tula.
As a landowning noble, her net worth is estimated to be approximately 105 million ₳. Her family holdings are managed by Maison Lautrec-Tula SN, their société nobiliaire; it should not be confused with Maison Lautrec SN, which manages the affairs of the House of Lautrec proper. Lautrec's sister, Aimée de Lautrec-Tula is Maison Lautrec-Tula's chairperson while Camille is active in politics.
Arms
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The Arms of the Lautrec-Tula family, the arms of the House of Lautrec with an additional bend vert |