Tamer Paladino
| Tamer Paladino | |
|---|---|
| City Official of Keybir-Aviv | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 1602 AN | |
| Editor of the Haifa National News | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 1602 AN | |
| Nationality | Haifan |
Tamer Paladino was a Haifan politician and newspaper editor of the Free State of Haifa. He held office as the City Official of Keybir-Aviv, the republic's second city, stood as a candidate at the first contested election for the premiership in 1605 AN, and edited the Haifa National News from its second edition. In the republic's later years he drafted a bill of rights to accompany the reform constitution proposed by Benjamin Meir.
Political career
Paladino was among the figures active in the Free State of Haifa from the republic's first weeks in 1602 AN, and held office as the City Official of Keybir-Aviv, a port and the second of the republic's cities after the capital at Abeis.
In 1605 AN the republic held its first contested election for the premiership, a poll of only five votes in a state its founder had himself described as having few citizens. Paladino stood against the incumbent Ismael Todochev and Erlo Sinders, the governor of the Wallis Islands. Todochev took three of the five votes and was returned for a second term, with Paladino and Sinders taking one each.
Haifa National News
The Haifa National News was the news service of the Free State of Haifa, launched in 1602 AN in the republic's first months and published alongside a partner paper in Keybir-Aviv, The Daily Citizen. It ran to six editions before it lapsed. Paladino took the paper over after its first edition and edited it thereafter.
Bill of Rights
At the outset of Benjamin Meir's ministry in 1615 AN, Meir drafted a new constitution to replace the text then in force, and Paladino drafted a bill of rights to accompany it. The reading of the draft was broadcast on television across Haifa, with more than ninety thousand watching, and Meir supplied Parliament a summary of the changes article by article. Neither text came to a vote, and the constitution they would have replaced remained in force until the republic's dissolution in 1620 AN.
