Majid Akpınar

Majid Mustafa Akpınar (born 18 May 1975) is a Vrachiapolian politician and diplomat who has served as the President of Vrachiapolis and the President of the Peace & Prosperity Party since 2020. He previously served as an MP for Mayfair Park division in the Akanal MMC from 2010 to 2015, and a minister without portfolio from 2015 to 2020. He is the first president to be born after Vrachiapolis gained independence in 1974 and the youngest president of Vrachiapolis, being 45 upon entering office.

Early life
Akpınar was born on 18 May 1975 in Hajik to Turkish Vrachiapolians Ahmet Akpınar, an electrical engineer, and Serap Akpınar, a civil servant in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At age 15, Akpınar joined the Youth for the Peace & Prosperity Party (YPPP), beginning his political career. He was voted "most likely to become president" in his final year of high school, and achieved near-perfect A-levels.

Akpınar studied global affairs at the Vrachiapolis National University, hoping to become a diplomat. Meanwhile, at the age of 21, he was elected vice-president of the YPPP organization.

Career
Akpınar joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1999 and was assigned to be a junior attaché at the El Kadsreian Embassy in Vrachiapolis. However, he became more interested in politics. He was elected president of the YPPP in 2001 (a position he served until 2004), and in 2007, he became a member on the board of the Hajik Development Corporation.

In 2010, at the age of 35, Akpınar was elected to the Parliament for Akanal MMC, alongside Theofanis Angelopoulos, Youssef Azhar, and Mircea Ioveanu.

In 2015, during the reshuffling of the Cabinet following the election of Onur Şanlı, Akpınar became a minister without portfolio.

In 2020, Akpınar announced his intention of running as president in the 2020 general election. He won the PPP nomination on 1 April, and was easily elected president.

Presidency (2020-)
Akpınar was sworn in as president on 2 September 2020. On 3 September, he appointed Theofanis Maimonides as Prime Minister.

Akpınar first dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic in Vrachiapolis, and the city-state administered the first doses of Pfizer vaccines in late December 2020.

Akpınar encouraged fellow party MPs to express their views honestly on proposed policies regardless of their party affiliation to engage the opposition constructively. He stated "A healthy democracy is one with not one, not two, but multiple parties. The PPP has ruled Vrachiapolis enough, and it is time for another party to take the reins." Following the PPP's loss of seats in the 2020 election, Akpınar appointed Hatice Coşkun Kahveci of the National Party as the first de jure Leader of the Opposition.

Following the, Akpınar strongly condemned the invasion. His government sanctioned the Russian government and seized Russian assets and properties in Vrachiapolis.

On 1 June 2022, the Vrachiapolis–Larnaca high-speed rail line was opened by Akpınar in a ceremony.