Spaincountryballs

Photo of Miguel on a vacation trip to the USA in the year 2022

Miguel (1999-), also known as @Spaincountryballs (due to it being its Instagram account name), is a Sanktish-Spanish politician. He joined the simulation in the 2nd Parliament and he has continously been an MP since the 3rd Parliament (except for the 9th Parliament, where he chose not to participate). Although he has been part of various parties along the time he has been participating in Sankten, he's better known for being the Chairman of CPS, the first (as well as the only) ever registered communist party in Sankten. By the 16th Parliament he was given the charge of Deputy Prime Minister and he has been offered knighthood by King Poland I the based in multiple occassions (however, he has refused it all the times).

## **IRL (In Real Life)**

He hasn’t revealed much about himself, as he wants to maintain his privacy. It is known that he was born on Zaragoza (coincidentally, the same city as Jiatd), and that his real name is Miguel, as in the sim. As other things, he’s fluent on Spanish, English and French, and he's taking classes to learn Chinese. He's interested on robotics and videogames programming, which he's currently learning.

## **Early Life and Studies**

Miguel was born in Saśtamāla on the year of 1999, in a middle class family. Both of his parents were born in Spain, but by the time they ware already Sanktish citizens. They had been living in Ísog for 8 years when Miguel was born. Even though he was born in Saśtamāla, it was because Ísog didn't have a clinic on those times. He would spend 17 years of his life living there with his parents. He attended elementary, middle and high school in Ísog, and he was advanced a course because of his great performance, specially in maths. He graduated from high school in the year 2016 and then he moved to Saśtamāla with his best friend in order to be able to go to university. He chose to study a double-degree as he didn't want to lose the passion on either of the two things he liked the most, these being Astrophysics and Political Sciences. He spent 5 years studying in Saśtamāla's University of Social and Applied Sciences and graduated from both careers with honors. He went back to Ísog for some months, as he was helping his parents with a little shop they had just opened. After those months he finished helping his family and moved back with his friend. They both got a job in a scientific research company, nonetheless they would still make projects on their own as holding an small blog about astronomy or writing minor articles for newspapers that talked about physics

## **Involvement in Politics**

Although he was old enough to vote in the elections for the 1st Parliament, he decided not to do it, because of his political views. He was a convinced communist, however there was no party that fit him and by the start of the first legislature, communism got banned so he had to remain silent about what he thought and time to time he had some problems for illegaly holding communist literature such as The Commnist Manifesto or various Lenin's books. Nonetheless, he affiliated to a party called Sanktish Workers' Party he 2nd Parliament which was kind of near to his political views. The party didn't get too much importance and in the end it dissolved itself.

Miguel, now totally committed to politics, founded a party called Sanktish Nationalist Party. Although the party was constituted on centre-right values, it was more of a social liberal party. It wasn't too important but with the arrival of Severus Hæfis into the party the popularity soared. They successfully entered the parliament in the 3rd Parliament with around 11% of the vote and two seats. They soon merged with the CNP, which had got 5 seats and became part of the biggest party of Sankten, with Severus as the new leader. This party would then be known as SCU (Sanktish Centre Union, then known as Sanktish Civic Union)

After being Minister of Agriculture for awhile in the shared government between CCU, DLP, SCU and PPS in the end of the 4th Parliament, the popularity of SCU started to fall, being the PPS the party that benefited the most of it. Although the party kept a decent amount of seats and Miguel even got to be Vice-Governor of Zijpomerania, by the end of the 6th Parliament, SCU merged into PPS preventing the total destruction of it. This would mean a new start in the career of Miguel.

PPS was not a party that Miguel shared a lot with, however he had no other option than staying there if he didn't want his career to end. For two parliament he was a MP in representation of the party, and he fought for the legalisation of communism. it was in this party where he met the communist politician Daniel Chlebẽk, who would later on help him in creating a new party. In the 8th Parliament, Juuce, for long the man who had always oppossed communists amd specially Miguel, succeeded in removing the decades-long ban on communism and islamism. This was a massive change for both Daniel and him and the newly incorporated member Zhi.

In the end of the 8th Parliament, the troika collectivelly left PPS and proceeded to create their own party which now yes, could represent their real ideology, which was communism (although they have never stated an exact ideology, their party has always followed the lines of what could be considered libertarian communism or eurocommunism, although they may have chosen to represent certain ideas from other ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Democratic Socialism in certain times). The CPS (Communist Party of Sankten) would begin its path by obtaining 2 seats on the parliament. In this parliament though, Miguel decided not to participate in it. For all the parliaments until the 13th, CPS stayed as a minor party swinging between 1 and 3 seats in the parliament.

In the 14th Parliament, however, CPS' popularity grew massively, being the party with the biggest vote share, with around 19% of the vote. This didn't win them the election, but it gave them 6 seats. The number swung for awhile but in the 16th election, CPS arose as the second biggest party in the government. Allied with PPS, they were able of passing many reforms.