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The Vortalas were a High Vor family on Barrayar, with a District Count and highly placed relatives in the Barrayaran government. "Vortala can be more obnoxious without actually swearing than any man I know." ―Aral, on Prime Minister Vortala The most famous recent member of the Vortala family was simultaneously Count Vortala and Prime Minister of Barrayar for Ezar Vorbarra and Aral Vorkosigan (on behalf of Gregor Vorbarra). A political progressive, he created a political party (the Progressive Party) that sought the modernization of Barrayaran society.

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  • The Vortalas were a High Vor family on Barrayar, with a District Count and highly placed relatives in the Barrayaran government. "Vortala can be more obnoxious without actually swearing than any man I know." ―Aral, on Prime Minister Vortala The most famous recent member of the Vortala family was simultaneously Count Vortala and Prime Minister of Barrayar for Ezar Vorbarra and Aral Vorkosigan (on behalf of Gregor Vorbarra). A political progressive, he created a political party (the Progressive Party) that sought the modernization of Barrayaran society.
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  • The Vortalas were a High Vor family on Barrayar, with a District Count and highly placed relatives in the Barrayaran government. "Vortala can be more obnoxious without actually swearing than any man I know." ―Aral, on Prime Minister Vortala The most famous recent member of the Vortala family was simultaneously Count Vortala and Prime Minister of Barrayar for Ezar Vorbarra and Aral Vorkosigan (on behalf of Gregor Vorbarra). A political progressive, he created a political party (the Progressive Party) that sought the modernization of Barrayaran society. He did not, however, seek to bring non-Vor into his party; rather, he recruited solely among "the people who matter". In his later years, he seldom attended sessions of the Council of Counts He had at least two sons; the older, who became Count sometime during Miles' adulthood, served on Barrayar's Imperial Lands Distribution Committee, which apportioned lands on the South Continent for development. A younger son, called Lord Vortala the Younger, was a Colonel in ImpSec who took on the duty of managing security for Gregor's Imperial Wedding to Laisa Toscane. The famous tale of how the fifth Count Vortala tried to set up his horse as his heir in the Council of Counts actually served as something of a precedent for later cases of Count's Choice before Count's Blood in the naming of heirs to the Council.
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