The TUV has announced the party's first Stormont Assembly election candidates.
Party secretary Ron McDowell is the TUV candidate for the North Belfast constituency, while former British Army solider John Ross will stand for the party in East Belfast.
The next Assembly election is scheduled for May 2022.
Mr McDowell, a married father-of-one, is an Orange Order member and devout Christian who acts as treasurer for his local church.
He has worked in aerospace for almost three decades and described himself as an "ardent trade unionist" who has lobbied to protect Bombardier jobs in Belfast.
Mr McDowell said he has been involved in efforts to resolve parading disputes in North Belfast.
"With my father I also built the heritage centre within Belfast Orange Hall to showcase and explain the narrative of Orangeism in North Belfast," he said.
"I have sought to play my part to improve relationships in the area in an outreach programme which would help communities in their search for mutual respect."
Before joining TUV, he was a former vice-chair of the DUP in North Belfast.
Mr McDowell said: "Working-class loyalism long expressed the feeling that career politicians have no connection to the people.
"As a working-class man from amongst the people I want to change that."
Mr Ross was a soldier in the Parachute Regiment during the Troubles across several decades after joining in August 1970. He was also a Platoon Sergeant in the Falklands War.
He retired from the military in 1993 before settling in his wife Margaret's native East Belfast and working for a courier company.
Mr Ross said he is "heavily involved in campaigning for justice for military veterans".
"I want to see a Northern Ireland with equal opportunity and benefits for all as an integral part of the UK with a truly democratic system of government," he said.
TUV leader Jim Allister welcomed the pair as the party's first election candidates.
The North Antrim MLA said: "This is the first of what will be many candidates announced across Northern Ireland as we build on the recent surge in membership in the party and give people across the province the opportunity to vote TUV in the next Assembly election."
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