Llorens: Difference between revisions

Line 178:

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.

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.

===General Assembly return===

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).

Line 183:

Line 186:

He was re-elected as a Senator in [[June 2018 general election|June 2018]] as the top-ranking candidate, 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.

He also served during this term as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Secretary [[Kavagrad]], with the notable implementation of the ambassador program to improve direct relations with embassy regions.

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.

===Semi-retirement===

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.

The [[14th General Assembly]] saw Llorens partner with Uan aa Boa and Greylyn to author arguably one of the most defining pieces of legislation in Assemblian history - the Separate Cabinet legislative package. The package, which initially garnered some scepticism but eventually was broadly accepted, formalised the executive branch as the Cabinet, removed the Secretary and Vice Secretary (renamed from Prime Minister) from the General Assembly, and expanded the numbers of Members of the General Assembly (renamed from Senators) to seven. Llorens also unsuccessfully opposed Dawtania's Civil Cases legislative package for his perception that it would unnecessarily complicate the judicial process by separating civil and criminal cases, which only narrowly passed the newly-increased two-thirds constitutional amendment threshold.

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.

===Return to politics===