Donald Rumsfeld

Donald H. Rumsfeld is a member of parliament of Falleentium from the Popular Republican Movement, currently serving as Secretary of Union in the Cabinet of Sheldon Whitehouse. Previously, he served as Secretary (and later Under-Secretary) of Education of Falleentium. He is PRM's longest-serving cabinet minister, as he is served as the head Education Department for 11 years beginning in the second Cabinet of Angela Merkel and ending after the second Cabinet of Willy Brandt.
===Politics===
Donald Rumsfeld describes himself as a proud Falleen unionist and an overall political moderate. He is part of PRM's "Investor Caucus" faction, as he is a prominent voice in the party on the subject of education, which he advocated investing into - a feat which finally came about early on in the Brandt administration. He was never politically active in his youth, and did not formally join any political party until 562, when he became a member of the Falleentium Moderate Party - an affiliation he kept until switching to the Popular Republican Movement ahead of the 571 Federal Elections, where he was lucky enough to be elected to parliament.
=== PRM Leadership Candidate ===
Secretary Rumsfeld participated in the first ever Popular Republican Leadership Challenge in 580AER. He ran on a single-issue candidacy, arguing that the most critical policy that the next administration would need to employ was to take a hard line stance on exit negotiations with Veldunium and Hastiga. Rumsfeld called for harsh conditions, including denial for the new states to enter the Nilira Alliance so that they'd have to pay for their own defense. Although he consistently polled in fourth place out of four contenders, he ended up in third with 13% after another challenger, Cumbernick Bandersnatch, suffered a late poll drop and only garnered 11%.Category:The Imperial Constitution
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