Flora Haber

Flora Carmela Haber is a Socialist politician in the Confederated Peoples. She is currently a member of the Nabarran Cortes and is almost guaranteed to represent the Socialists on the first Confederal Council as the head of the Department of Justice. She has also been mentioned as a possible Confederal Vice-President.

Haber is a native of Donnacona. Her father was a fur worker and she became a textile worker at the age of 16. She entered the Vasconian Textile Workers' Union as an ordinary worker and she became an activist in the Nabarran Socialist Party through the union. While working full-time, first in the factory and then for the union as a full-time organizer, she managed to put herself through university and then through law school. From 1998-2001, she was a "movement lawyer." In 2001, she was pre-selected by the Socialists to be the candidate for her local seat and she won. In the Cortes, Haber spoke out on many unpopular issues, earning a reputation as the "conscience of the Cortes."

Political career

Haber has built her political career around campaigning for workers' rights, consumer protections, public services and more democratic local governance. However, she is best known for consistently championing indigenous rights and the rights of the inhabitants of the Imperial Islands, positions frequently unpopular with many voters of European extraction. Among other policies, she has advocated reforms in community-police relations in the Imperial Islands, advocated recognition of Gadic and Papamiento as official languages and advocated limited local self-government.