Costa Mar Regional Assembly election

Candidates

1. 

   Margarita Vega-Santos

   NSB · Nord-Slovaka Bloko

   Margarita Vega-Santos is a third-generation fishing-fleet administrator from Puerto Azul's working docks, where her family has managed labour relations and crew scheduling for forty years. She spent twelve years as a shop steward in the Maritime Workers' Union before joining the NSB in 2023, arguing that Costa Mar's regional interests—particularly in port labour standards and fisheries management—are routinely overruled by federal bodies in Meridian that do not understand the peninsula's economy.

   • Restore regional veto power over federal port-labour regulations that undercut Costa Mar dockworker wages and conditions.
   • Devolve fisheries-quota management from Meridian to the Regional Assembly; Costa Mar's waters, Costa Mar's rules.
   • Require federal approval from Costa Mar before any inter-regional shipping-tariff change affects peninsula trade.
   • Establish a regional fiscal review board with real teeth—not advisory—to challenge federal budget allocations that shortchange the peninsula.
2. 

   Isabella Rossi-Chen

   MEC · Movado Esperanto-Civitana

   Isabella Rossi-Chen is a digital-access coordinator at the Federal Translation Centre's Puerto Azul annex, where she has worked since 2023 helping diaspora citizens navigate online voting and citizenship verification. Born in Costa Mar to an Italian merchant family and a Cantonese-heritage parent, she grew up in the port district and studied civic technology at the Universidad del Caribe. She is standing for the Regional Assembly to bring the Esperanto Charter's inclusionary principles into coastal policy-making.

   • Extend online voter registration to all diaspora residents; make Puerto Azul a model Federal Translation Centre hub for citizenship verification.
   • Protect coastal conservation zones from development pressure by anchoring environmental law in regional statute, not federal negotiation alone.
   • Fund digital-literacy programmes in port-district schools so young people can access civic participation tools and federal-assembly debate.
   • Establish a Regional Citizenship Advisory Board with diaspora representatives to ensure port-town voices shape maritime policy.
   • Support cooperative tourism models in coastal villages—environmental stewardship and economic dignity for residents, not extractive resort development.
3. 

   Isabel Santoro-Williams

   PdU · Partio de Unueco

   Isabel Santoro-Williams is a port-authority administrator and cooperative-housing advocate from Puerto Azul. For twelve years she managed labour relations at the container terminal; she now chairs the Caribbean Voices civic association, which mediates between port workers, tourism operators, and conservation groups. She is standing for the Regional Assembly to bring federal procedural standards to Costa Mar's land-use disputes.

   • Establish a federal mediation board for port-town zoning disputes, with seats for workers, business, and conservation representatives.
   • Extend cooperative-housing credit guarantees from Tierra Verde's model to Puerto Azul and the coastal towns.
   • Strengthen the Regional Assembly's oversight of tourism-development permits through transparent, published criteria.
   • Support the federal Suffrage Question with a three-year residency threshold—enough to root virtual citizens in local accountability.
4. 

   Marco Delgado-Santos

   FR · Federacia Renovigo

   Marco Delgado-Santos spent fifteen years as a container-terminal operations manager at Puerto Azul before moving into port-authority policy work. A third-generation Costa Mar resident with roots in the peninsula's fishing and maritime trades, he chairs the Costa Mar Chamber of Shipping and has advocated for streamlined federal tariff procedures that protect local port competitiveness without compromising environmental standards.

   • Modernize Puerto Azul's container infrastructure with federal co-investment; reduce ship-turnaround times and attract regional transshipment traffic.
   • Establish a Costa Mar Coastal Conservation Fund: business licensing fees fund marine-habitat restoration without raising taxes on working families.
   • Streamline federal tariff approval for port operators; cut bureaucratic delays that push cargo to competing regional hubs.
   • Protect artisanal fishing grounds through enforceable maritime-zoning agreements between Costa Mar Assembly and federal fisheries authority.
   • Invest in port-worker retraining programs as automation advances; guarantee wage-floor standards in port employment.
5. 

   Isabela Moreno-Adeyemi

   LVA · La Verda Aliro

   Isabela is a marine biologist and conservation officer who has spent twelve years protecting Costa Mar's coral reefs and mangrove nurseries. Born in Puerto Azul to a Lusophone mother and a Nigerian father, she grew up in the peninsula's fishing communities and watched coastal development erode the ecosystems her family depended on. She stands for La Verda Aliro to defend the conservation framework that keeps Costa Mar's eco-economy alive.

   • Expand marine protected areas along the Azul Peninsula and enforce penalties against illegal trawling in nursery zones.
   • Mandate environmental-impact assessments for all port-expansion proposals; give coastal communities binding consultation rights.
   • Double funding for eco-tourism training in Puerto Azul and the smaller fishing towns to create green jobs.
   • Strengthen the regional coastal-waste authority and ban single-use plastics in all public procurement.
   • Support the federal Río Esperanto hydro-grid expansion as a clean-energy anchor for regional manufacturing.