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[[File:The Communist Region.png|thumb|250px|The flag of The Communist Region, one of the region's predecessors.]]
 
The Communist Region was founded by CSSR on 3 November 2012 and was refounded on 13 November the following year after a period of stagnation by the original founder's new nation, New CSSR. Socathei was elected in April 2014, serving the longest uninterrupted term of any leader in the active era of the region. Afterbefore public pressure on the Delegate and founder, forced a new election for the Delegacy was called in September of that year, where. Atealia ran against Socathei with a reformist platform; with the tally neck-and-neck on the final day of voting, Socathei convinced New CSSR to banject Atealia on the false grounds of being a spy. Atealia and Cedoria, followed by their supporters, founded the new region of the Democratic Socialist Union with Cedoria on 20 September. Another major breakaway occurred in The Communist Region when military leader Lipno feuded with the founder over elections, leading the majority of his forces to form The Leftist Union, which rapidly emerged as a major leftist military, but quickly collapsed in January 2015 after Lipno's deletion for violating game rules.
 
Following a period of renewal under Delegate USSRs, Socathei returned to power in April 2015, but theytheir ceased-to-existdisappear afterthe afollowing briefmonth period on 31 May, creatingcreated a power vacuum. Afilled rushed election sawby The Final Horseman ascend to the Delegacy on 8 June, withfollowing a Democraticrushed Socialistelection. UnionThe militaryFinal allianceHorseman, beingfollowing thea highlightperiod of theirimproving term.relations However, in what atwith the timeDemocratic appearedSocialist toUnion, beunexpectedly a power grab,suspended the newConstitution Delegatein suddenlyan suspendedapparent thepower Constitution andgrab, banjectedbanjecting a number of their opponents from the region; led by. Cedoria, leading the military of the Democratic Socialist Union, supported Kitchenia to take back the Delegacy from The Final Horseman on 10 July. The Final Horseman later claimed that his motives were more complicated, seeking to protect the progress he made in bringing both regions together by making himself out as a common enemy.
 
===Founding and development===
[[File:Atealia.png|thumb|left|250px|The flag of Secretary Atealia, the first nation ever elected to the role.]]
 
The Final Horseman's auto-coup wasled theto trigger for improvingimproved relations between bothThe regions,Communist leadingRegion toand the Democratic Socialist Union, with talks of a merger underculminating ain seriesthe founding of different leaders on both sides. The Leftist Assembly was officially founded on 14 January 2016 by Leftist Assembly Founder, an account held jointly by four nations - British Accia and LAN from The Communist Region, and Atealia and Cedoria from the Democratic Socialist Union. The Constitution, primarily authored by New Prague Workers Republic, was ratified on 19 February, instituting a party-based political system, a popularly-elected Secretary, and various appointed and elected Ministers. Atealia was elected as the first -ever Secretary in the [[March 2016 general election|first ever regional election]]. DespiteThe the new activity in creating the Codefailure of Laws and The Red Star newspaper, the planned June 2016 election failed due to a lack of candidates, withled to the incumbentformation Secretary announcingof a new provisional government to govern as the [[2nd General Assembly]] for the next term.
 
The party system collapsed after it was revealed on 21 August that two separate mergers would soon reduce the total number of parties from four to two.; ALlorens' pollproposal ending on 31 August decided to move tofor an independent General Assembly model consisting of the Secretary, Prime Minister, Ministers, and allJustices thewas Ministersselected andin Justicesa referendum as the replacement. This was first used in the [[September 2016 general election]], which saw Cedoria elected as the new Secretary. In government, theThe [[3rd General Assembly]] passed critical legislation instituting the legislative process and referendums, while the Diplomatic Corps was formed and embassies were discontinued with USSD following their invasion of the Social Liberal Union. Cedoria was re-elected as Secretary in the [[December 2016 general election]], with the [[4th General Assembly]] passing laws on term limits and emergency banjections.
 
===The April Crisis===
[[File:Losinia.png|thumb|250px|The flag of Secretary Losinia, who was responsible for the April Crisis.]]
 
Llorens, Losinia, and Auven all nominated for Secretary in the [[March 2017 general election]], with the first two reigniting a rivalry that began with Llorens being elected as Chief Justice by one vote six months earlier. Following significant debate over policy divisions such as the regional military and the Diplomatic Corps, Losinia beat Llorens by a single vote after the distribution of preferences. AThe monthplanned renewal of turmoilthe andUnited politicalArmed tensionForces ensued,under beginningthe onnew 7 April with the announcementname of the new Leftist Defence Force toon replace7 the United Armed Forces as the regional militaryJune, whichwas waswidely criticised as a non-solution and led to the Minister of Defence New Tuva SSR revealing a lack of consultation. DramaThe againremoval ensuedof whenFirst Justice Celera from the General Assembly voted to remove First Justice Celera due to inactivity, just one day before the passage of new legislation to enshrine public votes for removing members of that body created further drama. Losinia unexpectedly dismissed their close ally, New Tuva SSR, on 18 April as part of a broader push to improve discipline and efficiency amongst their Ministers.
 
The crisis eventually boiled over when Cedoria, who had endorsed Losinia in the previous election, motioned the onlya vote of no confidence against a sitting Secretary in historyLosinia for Losinia's “plain simple incompetence,” prompting the Secretary to label his critics, particularly Atealia and Llorens, as “shadow plotters turned public firebrands” that had planned to remove him from power ever since he was elected. Losinia's decisionattempted to commencedelay athe three-dayvote with a referendum on renaming the military to delay the vote of no confidence worsened the situation, followedand bydeclaring an illegal ten-day state of emergency on 28 April saw the founder temporarily strip the Secretary of his Regional Officer abilities. Losinia suddenly departed the region on 31 April, with Prime Minister Atealia assuming the role of interim Secretary until Losinia was officially removed on 3 May.
 
===Recovery and reform===
[[File:Llorens.png|thumb|left|250px|The flag of Secretary Llorens, who led significant reform following the April Crisis.]]
 
The remainder of the [[5th General Assembly]] saw significant progress as a result of the resignations of several inactive Ministers and the spearheading of a raft of new legislation by Second Justice Llorens, with a focus on amending the issues exposed during the April Crisis. He was the only candidate to nominate for Secretary in the [[June 2017 general election]], being overwhelmingly confirmed in a confidence vote to becomebecoming the first ‘Assemblian native’ elected to the position. The [[6th General Assembly]] saw Llorens once again lead an overhaul of legislation, removing the Secretary’s voting advantage, expanding the banjection code, and amending the Constitution to apply a new numbered format. The following term, after another strong show of support in the [[September 2017 general election]], he passed bills abolishing the Leftist Defence Force, as well as separating the legislative and judicial branches.
 
The Secretary also organised the first quarterly census in October, as well asand the [[1st Culture Competitions]], whichduring becamethis a biannual event to design, propose, and vote on new features of the regionperiod. In foreign affairs, the region became tied up in a dispute over thecontroversial proposed NSLeft membership of the Social Liberal Union. Whilecreated mostdivisions, NSLeftwith regionsThe hadLeftist votedAssembly being the only region to eventually vote in favour of theirthem membershipjoining byafter 23every November,other scepticismregion ledflipped bydue someto vocalconcerns figuresover concerning the acceptance ofaccepting 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. The Leftist Assembly reaffirmed its vote in favour but would be the only region to do so as all others abstained or voted against, seeing the bid fail on 30 November.
 
===The new generation===