Leopold Levington

Leopold Levington has risen through the ranks of the PCPD since his entry into politics in 2344 as an elected councillor of a town council in his home county of Mothar. As a new member of the PCPD he was recruited by the central party office to stand as a senator contender for the southernmost constituency in Mothar, the parties least represented County. In the elections of 2346 he became senator for the district and became an instant hit within the party. Other PCPD senators came to know him as "leo the Lion" due to his hardline policies on civil liberties and privatisation. He impressed then PCPD leader Jonah Watterson with his fierce defence of his constituency and Watterson appointed him to chair the Senate Conservative Health Commision in 2348. He served in this position until 2358, in which time he had created his baby company MEDICARE Which dealt with pharmeceutical Products within the private sector. His first major position came in 2359 when Goblert Hashnoun chose Levington to hold the Food and Agriculture Ministry in Gerhard Papens cabinet. -Saturday 18th January 2360 saw the shocking news that a Bird Flu Pandemic had gripped the nation and Secretary Levington was the man who released the details of the crisis and headed the relief mission for the years of his office....

"Saturday 18th January 2360 On Monday the 14th of January, Police were called to the house of Farmer Alan Coates and his wife Minerva. The two had been found dead by worried neighbours and the police were immediatly concerned by the cause of death. Department of Health analysts arrived at the farm on Tuesday and by Wednesday the worst news had been revealed. That the most probable cause of death was the deadly strain 83F of Dundorfian Bird Flu. An instant Extermination of all birds in the surrounding five mile radius began on Thursday morning but the fears that the disease had spread were confirmed by a lady falling ill in the village of Hardwick 7 miles away from Almswood. An urgent meeting was called by Prime Minister Papen and the departments of Health, Food and Environment met on Thursday night in Eth, Miktar. Acting upon the advice of specialists a twenty mile radius quaranteen zone has been cordoned off by police and elements of the armed forces, with no-one but specially clothes exterminators allowed in or out. The Department of health is expected to address the people concerning vaccination but i can confirm that all Poultry livestock within the Quaranteen zone are in the process of destruction and that medical teams are on rout to vaccinate as many people within zone 20 ( as it is been called) as soon as possible. There will be many questions to answer and demands as to why this was not made more public sooner. I can assure you that the government was and is acting in the interests of public safety and we will continue to quash this new threat to our nation. I must urge anyone who has travelled within or near Zone 20 within the last moth to report yourself to your local hospital where you will tested and quaranteened as deemed approriate. We must stress that we have caught this Pandemic at its early stage and it leaves us with an advantage to dealing with it. In helping the local agricultural community in the region I and the Department of Food and Agriculture will to announce the "Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act" which will allow the Kordusian county government to subsidise the farmers, in doing so we will be breaking a previously rigid PCPD policy. Finally, no one must try to enter or leave the Zone 20 area until screened by health officials, people living within must first be cleared then they will be evacuated to local refugee camps. Anyone entering unlawfully puts themselves and the nation at risk, and they will be dealt with accordingly. Food and Agriculture Minister Leopold Levington "

Sec. Levington was praised for his actions as Agriculture Minister throughout the crisis, but the DCMLU cabinet of 2365 pushed him out of office and back into senate commitees.

Ying Hai Pans election to President in 2365 came as a shock to the party and according to the VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ACT of 2361 the standing President had to elect a VP to stand in should anything untoward happen to the Head of State. In late 2365 Levington was asked to become the first ever VP of the nation under Hai Pan, a role which he accepted and continues to follow to this day. He has made the office into one of a key diplomat, advisor and ambassador for Dorvik and he had massive input in the creation and passing of the REGENERATION OF THE ECONOMY ACT. Althoughs GC critics accused Levington of using his MEDICARE company to achieve profit through the Pandemic he continues to be massively popular to the people and influential both within the PCPD and also the senate.