Podria

Podria

Co-Founder
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 May 2022
Preceded by	Dyl
16th Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 October 2023
Secretary	Marxist Land of Peoples
Co-Minister	Super Awesome Fun Times
Preceded by	Super Awesome Fun Times
14th Secretary
In office 13 March - 15 September 2023
Vice Secretary	Marxist Land of Peoples
Preceded by	New Flamington
Succeeded by	Marxist Land of Peoples
In office 12 June – 17 March 2022
Vice Secretary	Kavagrad
Preceded by	Super Awesome Fun Times
Succeeded by	Kavagrad
Speaker of the General Assembly
In office 26 January – 29 March 2022
Deputy Speaker	The Grand Union Kingdom
Preceded by	Ghillemear
Succeeded by	The Grand Union Kingdom
In office 14 December 2020 – 13 March 2021
Deputy Speaker	New Flamington
Preceded by	Antinios
Succeeded by	New Flamington
In office 15 March – 13 June 2020
Deputy Speaker	Kavagrad
Preceded by	Kavagrad
Succeeded by	Kavagrad
Backup Founder (interim)
In office 13 February – 23 February 2021
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	The Final Horseman
Ministerial roles 12th Vice Secretary In office 23 December 2022 – 17 March 2023 Secretary New Flamington Preceded by Kavagrad Succeeded by Marxist Land of Peoples In office 20 June – 25 July 2020 Secretary Greylyn Preceded by Kavagrad Succeeded by Grod Island 4th Minister of Roleplay In office 27 September 2022 – 17 March 2023 Secretary Kavagrad New Flamington Preceded by Callid Succeeded by Ghillemear In office 23 September 2021 – 27 June 2022 Secretary Greylyn Super Awesome Fun Times Preceded by Callid Succeeded by Callid In office 19 September 2020 – 22 June 2021 Secretary Kavagrad Dyl Preceded by Burninati0n Succeeded by Callid 3rd Minister of Community Affairs In office 25 January – 17 March 2021 Secretary Dyl Preceded by Wascoitan Succeeded by The Isles of Geese 13th Minister of Recruitment In office 19 March – 25 March 2020 Secretary Llorens Preceded by The Final Horseman Succeeded by Libertasnia 3rd Minister of World Assembly Affairs In office 18 December 2019 – 30 January 2020 Secretary Llorens Preceded by None Succeeded by Position dissolved
General Assembly roles Member of the General Assembly In office 23 September – 30 October 2022 In office 24 November 2021 – 25 April 2022 In office 27 August – 25 October 2021 In office 13 December 2020 – 13 March 2021 In office 8 November 2019 – 13 June 2020
Personal details
Founded	Podria 20 August 2018 (5 years, 8 months)
Nickname(s)	Pod, Poddie, Kasia
Nation page	Link

Podria (founded 20 August 2018) is an Assemblian politician who is currently serving as Co-Founder and Minister of Foreign Affairs and previously served as 14th Secretary in 2022 and 2023, Vice Secretary in 2020 and 2022, and several terms as Member of the General Assembly from 2019 to 2022.

She is a member of the 'fourth generation' of Assemblians who became active in politics following the separation of executive and legislative branches in late 2019. She is one of the only remaining active members of this generation and is as of yet the last to have served as Secretary, serving after Super Awesome Fun Times, a member of the 'sixth generation'.

Podria's first entry to politics was in October 2018, running in a by-election for a vacant seat in the General Assembly wherein they lost to Queerterra. They were then inactive in politics for nearly a year after which they ran in the November 2019 General Assembly by-election and were elected to the 15th General Assembly. They then went on to run in the December 2019 general election for Member of the General Assembly and were elected to the 16th General Assembly and served as the first Deputy Speaker under Speaker Kavagrad. They were also appointed as Minister of World Assembly Affairs in the 1st Llorens Cabinet, but were later dismissed on 30 January 2020 as Secretary Llorens dissolved the position. They went on to be elected as Member and then Speaker of the 17th General Assembly and also briefly served as Minister of Recruitment in the 2nd Llorens Cabinet before resigning due to inability to reliably run the recruitment API.

Podria was appointed as Vice Secretary in the 1st Greylyn Cabinet following the June 2020 general election and was confirmed on 20 June 2020. They were a strong proponent for Secretary Greylyn's Civil Service Initiative and played a large role in organising the pilot of the program, taking a lead role and serving as civil servant in the Ministry of Community Affairs, Ministry of Roleplay, and Ministry of Information.

Podria ran into controversy after requesting a copy of the social Discord's server template from Head Admin Llorens to begin work on the idea of consolidating the social, government, and roleplay servers of The Leftist Assembly into one large server. Following the Discord Admin Team's unilateral rejection of the proposal and refusal to provide the server template to the government, Secretary Greylyn and Vice Secretary Podria appealed to the 18th Supreme Court, arguing that the Discord server is an extension of The Leftist Assembly's community and was thus accountable to the government. The Supreme Court returned a verdict that the government did not have inherent jurisdiction over the administration of the Discord server, but could extend its jurisdiction to the server through legislation.

Following this Supreme Court ruling, Podria began drafting legislation to formally bring the Discord server under the control of the government and also attempted to garner public support for establishing government control over the Discord server. They engaged in heated debates with several members of the Discord Admin Team and other members of the regional community and during these debates accused the Discord Admin Team of being autocratic and reactionary and encouraged some of them to resign. These harsh words were met by severe backlash from the regional community with a joint statement from the Discord Admin Team opposing Podria's statements and a later statement from Secretary Greylyn denouncing Podria's conduct during the debates. A vote of no confidence was triggered on 25 July 2020, with Vice Secretary Podria voluntarily resigning from all government posts that same day.

Podria took a hiatus from government for the following months, returning as Minister of Roleplay in the 1st Kavagrad Cabinet and later being elected as Member of the General Assembly in the December 2020 general election. They continued to serve in government as Minister of Roleplay, Member of the General Assembly, Speaker, Minister of Community Affairs, Interim Backup Founder, and Ambassador. They briefly moved their primary region of residence to The Social Liberal Union following the Great Departure in January of 2021, disapproving of Llorens' dismissal of Hecknamistan and worrying about the future of the region. They returned primary residence to The Leftist Assembly in March of 2021 to contest against incumbent Secretary Dyl in the March 2021 general election. They once again took a brief hiatus from June to August of 2021 during which they held no elected positions. They then ran for Member of the General Assembly in the January 2022 legislative election, serving as Speaker for the first half of the 24th General Assembly before passing off the position to their Deputy Speaker, The Grand Union Kingdom.

Podria was elected Secretary in the June 2022 secretarial election, running on a platform of anti-World Assembly, pro-R/D, and pro-community development policies and formed the 1st Podria Cabinet. Her term as Secretary was largely uneventful, she focused on the Ministry of Community Affairs which delivered an increased number of community events and engaged with the on-site community through the Regional Message Board and poll features. She also oversaw the opening of semi-formal relations with Osiris and fallout in the roleplay server after several members attempted to form a breakaway region. She served again as Minister of Roleplay in the 2nd Kavagrad Cabinet, overseeing the creation of a Joint Roleplay Effort with signatories from several regions including The Communist Bloc. In the 1st New Flamington Cabinet she served as Vice Secretary.

Podria was elected for her second term as Secretary in the March 2023 secretarial election, running on a platform contrary to her first platform, vowing to vote on World Assembly proposals, drastically increase community activity. The 2nd Podria Cabinet was formed being the first cabinet to have three Ministers of the same portfolio. Her second term was characterised by an increased involvement in gameplay with frequent votes on World Assembly proposals, engagement with anti-fascist militaries, and community events with other regions. She was elected to her third term in the June 2023 secretarial election on a platform of continuing her policies of her second term. This term was one of general stagnation in the government and region in general.

Following her third term as Secretary, Podria stated she intended to retire from government and only continue to be Co-Founder as long as was needed by the region, but abandoned this notion after the invasion of the NSLeft frontier region, Solidarity. She briefly only held the position of Co-Founder from 15 September until 12 October, when she was confirmed as the 16th Minister of Foreign Affairs after Venusian Soviets failed to be confirmed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 1st Marxist Land of Peoples Cabinet.

Fun facts

• Podria has served in the governments of three regions outside of The Leftist Assembly: as Member of the Law Commission in The Social Liberal Union, Ambassador in The Internationale^{[citation needed]}, and Member of the Legislative Committee in The Communist Bloc.
• Podria is the only nation to have defeated an incumbent Secretary in an election.
• Podria is the nation to have held the most concurrent positions: serving as Member of the General Assembly, Speaker, Minister of Roleplay, and Minister of Community Affairs all at once from 25 January to 15 March, 2021.
• Podria was the first nation to serve as Deputy Speaker, under Speaker Kavagrad.
• Podria has run more joke Secretarial campaigns than serious Secretarial campaigns.

Quotes

• "It is an absolute honour and privilege to be elected as Secretary of this region that has really and truly become my home. For those who are unaware, I've kinda become an old coot in this region but in my more young and boisterous days I made some serious political blunders that hurt both my own reputation and the unity of the region I hold dear; I hope to be able to put all of that behind us during my term as Secretary."
  • Secretarial victory speech, 13 June, 2022
• "The 600 or so of us are a motley crew of people united in one thing, our dedication to the working class. I joined The Leftist Assembly back in August of 2018; since then the population has over doubled, we've had 10 Secretaries over 17 elections, all of the Founders have changed at least once, and the entire Constitution has been rewritten; yet this region has one constant: its motto. For longer than this old coot has been in the region, we have always lived by the three words "Unity in Diversity" and have been exemplars of this concept. This amazing community of all races and nationalities, of all genders and sexualities, of all ages and backgrounds, and of all leftist ideologies has thrived, and it is an honour to have been elected to lead this community that has seen me through my own personal struggles over the past 4 years."
  • State of the Assembly address, 13 September 2022
• "The Leftist Assembly has become a home for so many of us, myself included, and the home is not tied to a nation simulation game made by some Australian author, it's about the people - you the Assemblians. I cannot express in words how thankful I am to have this region, this community to serve."
  • State of the Legislature address, 28 February 2021
• "These past few days have been a dark period in our regions history, and there are no fingers that can be pointed at anybody but myself. While the purpose of my actions were to help the Assemblians, I now see that I have been woefully misguided, and damaged this Assembly I so love."
  • Resignation as Vice Secretary following backlash to their Discord legislation, 25 July 2020
• "As Speaker of the General Assembly, it is my duty to ensure that our legislature remains unaffected by ulterior motives and retains its integrity."
  • Response to Secretary Llorens during controversy over the Secretary's private message to a Member of the General Assembly, 24 April 2020