Iprognje Ubajrifla

Iprognje Ubajrifla (Laiorian: Ŧϼroņ Øѭavrϙflå) is a Laiorian politician. Considered to be on the right of the political spectrum, he narrowly lost the 2021 Laiorian general election, sparking a constitutional crisis in Laioria.

Career
Originally a journalist for LTV, his popularity handed him a column in the Laiorian Standard and hosting duties on Good Morning Laioria. He started broadcasting on Radio Laioria in 1995 and his drivetime show drew in the ratings. In 1995 LTV appointed him as host of an eponymous daytime chat show Ubajrifla, similar to British TV programme . It was axed in 2004.

Ubajrifla turned down hosting duties on the Laiorian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? after filming a pilot in 1999. He hosted the first series of Deal or No Deal in 2007.

He was axed as a Laiorian Standard columnist in 2015, after writing an edition condemned by many as homophobic. In 2018, he became the leader of the Kadersyrinian Islands branch of the movement, a position he continues to hold.

2021 Laiorian general election
On 2 November, 2020, Ubajrifla announced he was planning to run on the Syncretic Party ticket for Prime Minister. He was elected unopposed as the candidate for the radical faction of the Syncretic Party of Laioria for Prime Minister. He selected Baungu'ul Vokal'lirk for Deputy Prime Minister.

Opinion polls put Ubajrifla and incumbent Labour candidate Magnus Sweinsson neck-and-neck, with his popularity as a TV host and Standard columnist proving good for him. Despite Ubajrifla often being called the "Laiorian ", when the results came in, the Ubajrifla-Vokal'lirk ticket lost narrowly, and as such, Ubajrifla, supported by the US government and the CIA, called for demonstrations against the result, especially on Sweinsson's inauguration day.

In 2022, Sweinsson took a high-risk gamble and called a fresh election, in which Ubajrifla took the chance to stand. Sweinsson won convincingly and set about prosecuting offenders in the constitutional crisis of two years prior. In March 2023 Ubajrifla was sentenced to eleven years in prison for incitement of violence and irregularities committed via his campaign group.