Henrique Spínola

Henrique Spínola (22/11/1973) is an Owlian Republican, politician and is Currently Serving as the Prime Minister of the Provisional Republic of Terra Nova.

Early Life
Henrique Spínola was born in 1973, in Vila Nova de Iroque, Owl Archipelago. He was from a middle class family, and he soon started to believe in personal, economic and social freedom. He entered in the Iroquois University when he was 18, and he studied International Relations, because he wanted to be a diplomat.

Second Owlian Republic and Republican resistance
After Pontes Dictatorship  began, he soon started a fight for freedom. He wrote multiple letters against the regime under the name “Mário Pereira”. After the fall of the Dictatorship, he lead the Republican Front in the Civil War. When the Republicans took Nova Évora, the Capital of the Archipelago, he soon proclaimed the Republic of the Owl Archipelago, and started to make deals with the other sides of the civil war. Those deals failed, and the war went on.

When the Monarchists were close of Nova Évora, Spínola wanted to surrender, but giving the opposition inside his own Cabinet, he resigned in favor of his Vice President, Marta Almocreve, who rulled in the last days of the nation. He asked asylum in the Bufo Real Islands, Neutral Territory, and he was appointed by the King as the 2nd Prime Minister of the Bufo Real Islands.

After the end of the War and with the peace treaties, he became a Member of the Parliament in the Constitution Assembly, being a part of the writing of the Constitution.

The Kingdom of Owl Archipelago era
He created the Liberal Party, and ran for the First Elections with the People’s Party in a coligation called Owl Archipelago Forward. He was elected, and in the second elections they decided to unite those parties into the Libertarian Party. But after 2 elections, he failed re-election by a few votes, so he decided to create a newspaper, The Atlantic Times, which is still running.

He was the author of the Articles of Impeachment to Rogério Balério, because of the sexual scandal envolving him journalist of The Solidarity Post.

Provisional Republic of Terra Nova
More recently, he joined a political party called Enough!, leaded by Hugo Eiola, and after the proclamation of the Provisional Republic of Terranova, he moved there and he is currently running his newspaper from there.

After the ending of the Provisional Government, where he was a part of the Executive Council, he became the Prime Minister of Terra Nova and a member of the Politburo.

Personal Life
Henrique Spínola is married to Marta Rodrigues, a former colleague in the Iroquois University. They have a son, Rafael R. Spínola, who is 14, and a Daughter, Inês R. Spínola, who is 9.

He is bissexual, but doesn’t talk very much about it.