Vlodomir Mečnik

Vlodomir Mečnik (Ryzani: Влодомир Мэчник) is a Ryzani and later Bardonian politician former co-leader of the Ryzani Communist Party and founder of the Moderate Front of Bardonia.

Early life
Mečnik was born in Tossagrad into a working class family. His father was died in the hands of the police when he was four years old for allegedly committing theft to feed his children. His mother died in childbirth a couple months later, leaving Mečnik alone with his three older sisters including the future drug lady Miroslava Mečnik.

Mečnik was an ardent reader and easily associated with far-left views he read from radical newspapers. At the age of 19 he moved to Carthya to further his political involvement.

Ryzan
Mečnik would help found the Ryzani Communist Party and would stand for election on its behalf. Following limited electoral success and a failure to call for revolutionary action, Mečnik became dissilusioned with communism and adopted less radical political views.

During the Second West March War Mečnik formed the Provisional Ryzani Government opposed to both the Phoenixian Imperium and the Imperial Federation of Ryzan. Talks were pursued with the Bardonian Government however Mečnik would abandon them as the Bardonians seemed to pursue conquest rather than a lasting solution to peace. Following the Treaty of Playistan Mečnik would move back to Carthya and gain Bardonian citizenship.

Bardonia
Vlodomir Mečnik quickly adopted to the change of regime and founded the Moderate Front of Bardonia. After a split vote led to a failure to gain seats in the Senate, Mečnik resigned as leader of the MF.