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Towards the conclusion of the term, Llorens became involved in a heated foreign affairs dispute concerning the proposed NSLeft membership of the Social Liberal Union. While most NSLeft regions initially voted in favour of their membership, scepticism by some vocal figures concerning the acceptance of a ‘liberal’ region into the alliance and perceived antagonism from members of the Social Liberal Union towards authoritarian leftists prompted regions to reconsider their stance. Llorens was criticised by some for deciding to reaffirm the region's vote in favour of their membership, making The Leftist Assembly the only region not to abstain or vote against it.

===Post-leadership politics===

Following the conclusion of his second term as Secretary on 14 December 2017, Llorens spent the entire next term out of office for the first time in over a year. However, he remained active behind-the-scenes in coordinating and assisting the election campaign of executive ticket [[South Miruva]] and Atealia in the [[December 2017 general election]], and continued to be involved on the legislative scene.

While he passed the Seek Other and Sentencing Acts, implementing a new 'seek other' election option and expanding the number of prosecutable offences respectively, he clashed with Cedoria on legislation concerning the separation of government powers. He had opposed Cedoria's Executive Government Act, passed at the start of the term 10-8 in a referendum, on the grounds that it gave Ministers the ability to see internal General Assembly communications, it blocked Justices from serving as Ministers, and gave ambiguous preference to Senators for ministerial portfolios. His alternative bill, the Revised Executive Act, sought to overturn these particular elements while retaining the core part of the bill in clarifying ministerial responsibilities, but it failed 8-9 in a referendum.

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).

It was during this period that he also served briefly as the only Minister of Culture in the region's history to host the Culture Competitions, a responsibility handed on in later years to the Minister of Information, as well as the Minister of Archives to manage the wiki (rather than the regional newspaper, as the title had been formally used for). The wiki, which followed a [https://theleftistassembly.wixsite.com/theleftistassembly short-lived regional website] that he designed using Wix, has been managed continuously by Llorens since, with him having created a collection of pages on NSWiki and NSIndex at varying times before the establishment of an independent TLAwiki in August 2020.

He was convincingly re-elected as a Senator in [[June 2018 general election|June 2018]], spending the term on a numerous of legislative referendums: returning to a fixed number of Senators with New Arkados in the Fixed Legislature Act, requiring candidacy confirmations on the Regional Message Board in the Candidacy Confirmation Act, and requiring one Justice to lead each trial as a presiding judge in the Judicial Review Act. The first use of this would be in the region's first-ever court case at the end of the term - [[10th Supreme Court#Tobostan v. Llorens (2018)|''Tobostan v. Llorens'' (2018)]] - where Llorens successfully prosecuted Tobostan for spamming and trolling behaviour.

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