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His agreement to merge with the Independent Leftist Front at the same time that the Workers' Army Party and the Solidarity Party were also in talks to combine ultimately led to the collapse of the party system. He proposed a new independent one-branch General Assembly model as a solution to the issue, with a nine-member variant - consisting of the Secretary, Prime Minister, four other Ministers, and the three Justices - being enacted from the [[September 2016 general election]]. This was the first of several major institutional overhauls that Llorens was either partially or fully responsible for.

 

He ran for the Ministry of Law (the predecessor to the [[Supreme Court]] in September 2016, his first-ever election in the region. The campaign was dominated by a new heated rivalry between Llorens and [[Losinia]], a prominent figure (under the name Napania) in the region's predecessors, with each questioning the credentials and proposals of the other. Other issues that featured were the nature of the Prime Minister role and restrictions on right-wing nations residing in the region. Despite Losinia receiving the endorsement of the two primary authors of the original Constitution at the time - [[Atealia]] and [[New Prague Workers Republic]] - Llorens ended up defeating him by one vote as Chief Justice after the distribution of preferences.

 

===Prime Minister===

In the [[December 2016 general election]], Llorens decided to run for Prime Minister after three-term incumbent [[Auven]] stepped down from the role. He faced Minister of Foreign Affairs [[New Tuva SSR]], but most debate occurred between him and Losinia over the issue of the recently-passed Criminal Recognition Act that gave powers of banjection from the Ministry of Law to the whole General Assembly. Late in the campaign, New Tuva SSR accused Llorens of seeking to concentrate his powers as Chief Justice, while Llorens claimed that New Tuva SSR had done little in their ministerial capacity. Llorens won with over two-thirds of the vote to become deputy to re-elected Secretary [[Cedoria]].

 

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Losinia led as Secretary for one month, which was a period of turmoil and heightened political tensions following the closely-fought preceding election. Llorens criticised the announcement of the new Leftist Defence Force in place of the United Armed Forces on 7 April 2017 as a "non-policy" for improving activity. He again became vocal when Losinia led the General Assembly to remove First Justice [[Celera]] for inactivity just one day before the conclusion of a vote on the Democratic Confidence Act, which Llorens had written but had his ally Atealia sign to avoid opposition from the Secretary. Throughout this, he published a since-deleted dispatch blog, ''What Is Going On?'', that criticised Secretary Losinia's actions.

 

He also worked behind-the-scenes with Atealia and Cedoria, who had both also become increasingly critical of Losinia in the first weeks of his term. Following Cedoria's motion of a vote of no-confidence in Losinia, the first in regional history, Losinia accused Atealia and Llorens of being “shadow plotters turned public firebrands” that were behind the motion, having planned to remove him from power ever since he was elected. The Secretary's delaying tactics, illegal declaration of a state of emergency, and eventual fleeing from the region saw Prime Minister Atealia assume his role formally on 3 May, though there was a broad perception that Llorens was to be the natural successor in the following election.

===First period as Secretary===

Llorens was elected as the first 'Assemblian native' Secretary in a near unanimous vote during the [[June 2017 general election]], with the endorsements of both Atealia and Cedoria. His policies included a revitalisation of the Leftist Defence Force through new training materials, limiting outside influence in the region, holding a referendum on whether to reinstate the party system, and abolishing the Secretary voting advantage in the General Assembly.

 

Leading the [[6th General Assembly]], Llorens passed five pieces of legislation, including removing the Secretary voting advantage in the Equal Vote Act, merging the Minister of Immigration and Customs into the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Legislature Reduction Act, banning unauthorised foreign policy communications in the Foreign Communication Act, and once again overhauling the Constitution and Code of Laws to implemented a simplified numbered format. In September, he also organised the [[1st Culture Competitions|first-ever Culture Competitions]], which has become a biannual event for citizens to design and vote on certain visual elements in the region.

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.

 

 

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.

===Second period as Secretary===

Llorens' run for Secretary in the [[December 2019 general election]] was just the second time (after Cedoria) that a nation had sought out a third term in office. He was challenged by incumbent Vice Secretary [[Greylyn]], and the candidates became most clearly distinguished based on their stance over Greylyn's proposed 'civil service' for the executive branch, which Llorens strongly opposed on the grounds of it being an inefficient use of time and resources, whereas proponents of the change argued that it would encourage greater participation in government. Llorens also promised to introduce new Ministers of Events, Roleplay, and World Assembly Affairs, as well as to introduce a new endorsement program called the Revolutionary Support Exchange (RoSE). Ultimately, Llorens won in a landslide with 73% of the vote.

 

His third term in office was largely defined by the implementation of these campaign promises, leading the [[1st Llorens Cabinet]] with six Ministers and spearheading the implementation of the RoSE program, which has led to a sustained increase in the total proportion of World Assembly members in the region, as well as Delegate endorsements. In a January 2020 opinion poll, 75% of citizens said that they were 'very satisfied' with his leadership as Secretary.