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He made a brief return to the Supreme Court in February 2018 following the resignation of Libertasnia, serving the remaining time of the term, which totalled less than one month.

 

In the [[March 2018 general election]], Llorens was comfortably elected as one of seven Senators to the [[9th General Assembly]]. During the term, he passed a number of uncontroversial pieces of legislation, such as the enshrining of regional designs and increasing the Senator population ratio from 1:10 to 1:12, but he faced obstacles with requiring General Assembly votes on all ministerial appointments in the Executive Article Act (failed 6-8 in a referendum) and adopting a new Condorcet-modelled election counting system (passed 9-7 in a referendum).

 

Llorens was again the best-performing senatorial candidate in the [[September 2018 general election]], with his third term beginning with another complete legal overhaul that notably saw the Code of Laws become a collection of laws rather than a document in itself. This was followed by his widely-popular Set Ministers legislative package with New Arkados that required the Secretary to appoint Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Media, and Recruitment, while giving them the flexibility to appoint additional ones as they saw fit, a model that continues in largely the same form today.

 

Seeking to focus on his new responsibilities as a writer and editor for NationStates Today, an interregional news organisation where he would later serve twice as Chief Executive Officer, Llorens withdrew partially from Assemblian politics, opting against running for a fourth term as Senator. However, he continued to critique and present some legislation - in the [[12th General Assembly]], he legislated with Kavagrad to abolish the Minister of Media after a tense public confrontation with the incumbent [[Libertasnia]] on the Regional Message Board between several members made it clear that ''The Red Star'' was no longer tenable. In the [[13th General Assembly]], Llorens found himself increasingly at odds with rising-star Senator [[Dawtania]], being pivotal in the 19-25 referendum failure of Dawtania's proposal to separate the elections of the Secretary and Prime Minister.

 

 

Returning from semi-retirement, Llorens was elected as an MGA in the [[15th General Assembly]], once more as the top-ranked candidate, and passed six bills amendments almost unanimously, including a new endorsement cap in the Endorsement Cap Bill, the increase of Justice confirmation thresholds to two-thirds in Constitution Amendment (Court Confirmations), and the abolition of nation category restrictions on running for office in Category Restriction Amendment (Act Removal). The renewed involvement in the legislative process set the stage for a third tilt at Secretary in the following election.

 

===Second period as Secretary===