Thies Lo Chung Yin

**Thies Lo Chung Yin** (Faikangnese: 罗忠胤; Born 23 July 1939) is a Geurighavenian politican and the incumbent Prime Minister of Geurighaven.

## Early Life and Education

His mother was Xu Fang Li and his father Lo Xie Jun. Born in a poor household, he could not afford an expensive education so he worked hard in order to earn a scholarship. When he was 12, his scholarship came and the government would pay his school fee. He enrolled in St Joseph High School where he was bullied by Corusconians children there for being non-white and poor. He later studied abroad for medicine in Corusconia.

## Medical and Early Political Carrer

In 1955, he worked at the Mount Tei Hospital in Oosterdam as a doctor on mental health. In 1966, he decided to run for MP for Oosterdam Teisan constituent after Geurighaven's independence and joined the People's Unity Party (民联党). He claimed that he was deeply affected by the independence hoping that under their own people's rule, society can advance faster. He is a staunch nationalists and wanted all the Corusconians out possibly due to the bullying by them when he was young. He also began bodybuilding prior to joining politics and he continued till now. He has been continuously named the world's healthiest world leaders.

## In Government

### Cabinet Positions

He rose through the ranks and first became the Minister of Health in 1979 to 1992 under Prime Minister Marc Da Wang. He advoicated for a "self-sufficent" blood supply as many western countries were suffering from a HIV/AIDs epidemic at the time. This gave rise to the contaminated blood scandal. While being the Health Minister, he was met with the death of his parents but many claimed that he was involved in it by hiring a hitman to kill his parents. He denied the allegation.

He was later removed from the position under Twan Luk Jiarung and put as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1997 and later as the Minister of the Interior from 1997 to 2002 and later again as the Minister of Health from 2007 to 2010 but this time under another Prime Minister, Adriaan Xie Kangbing.

### Progressive Party

In January of 2010, Adriaan Xie Kangbing's administration was plagued with corruption and sex scandals. A female stripper from Oosterstads red light district revealed a sex tape where he and the stripper had sexual intercourse. And a corruption scandal where he used government funds from the Geuighaven Health Service (GHS) to construct his new home. He denied both allegation. Due to pressure from his party and from the public, he decided to resign and the President called for a new election which would take place in June that year.

Following this allegations, several ministers decided that the PUP was not right wing enough and did not tackle crime, drugs, prostitution, corruption and illegal immigration hard enough. He and three others Ma Xiewei, Fo Kangqiang and Mart-jan Reekers formed the Progressive Party as an alternative. The three were the Minister of Defense, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Information respectively.

In that year's election, he attacked the left claiming that they want Guerighaven to be similar to Quangsuh, a communist nation where everyone except for the common people would be rich. With a successful election campaign, he managed to win a landslide victory of 72.2% of the popular vote and even considered merging the PUP with the Progressive.

## Prime Minister

### Drug Control

Domestically, Lo introduced a higher budget for healthcare and police service in order to tackle drug and crime. In order the tackle drug usage, he introduced stricter regulations for pharmaceutical companies and higher criteria for approval of new drugs. The Central Drug Control Commission (CDCC) also launched an online campaign on what will happen when controlled drugs such as opioids and marijuana were to have a much less strict restrictions and laws on controlled drug removed. The campaign saw backlash from netizens claiming the government is fear mongering.

### Crime

He raised budget for the police significantly to bring down crime rate. The government also passed the Security Act of 2010 where the police are allowed to the armed with military grade weapons such as armoured trucks and assault rifles to arrest criminals. Over 400 people died in police custody in that year alone but it did see a drop in crime rate. Despite this drop, it stopped dropping at the end of the year and organised crimes from triads took a rise.

The police also went to war with the triads in 2012 starting the Triad War in Guerighaven. In the war, various triads in the country teamed up against a common foe. Over 10,000 police officers died in the war and few young people wanted to join the police due to the high death rate. In order to encourage young people in the country to join the polices, wages of police officers increased and police budget was raised again in 2014.

### Abortion

Upon coming to office, his party introduced anti-abortion laws. In 2013, he wanted banned abortion due to rape or pre-marital sex and only allowing abortion if the mother's life is in danger. This caused a major protest in the country as only 3.4% of all cases of abortion involves the mother's life being in danger. His party eventually withdrew the law but he continued to advocate for the total banning of abortion.

### Immigration

He has a harsh stance on immigration. In 2012, he introduced a skilled based immigration policy but his bar is raised very high and few people immigrated to the country as time went on. Due to few immigrants he decided to lower the bar to enter in 2015 where he was accussed that the policy was racist and only allowed non-black, non-Muslim to enter. He claimed that this is because there is very few skilled Muslim and black people in the world in a joking manner in a press conference.

### Criminal Rehabilitation

While Thies have been described as "draconian" in terms of policies regarding cracking down on crimes and drugs according to the opposition with not much success, criminal rehabilitation have been relatively successful. When Thies stepped into office, he introduced the Orange Ribbon Project (OLP) which helps ex-offenders return to society by helping them find jobs and giving them a second chance in life. The OLP have been relatively successful. According to the Criminal Rehabilitation Division under the Department of Justice, about 93% inmates annually since 2011 have successfully reintergrated into society having found a suitable jobs and acceptance by the society. In a 2020 poll, about 94% of the Geurighaven population know of the OLP and 99% of that believes that the OLP is successful.

### Foreign Policy

He seeked closer relations with Vaadekoenië.

## Controversy

### Death of Xu Fang Li and Lo Xie Jun

Xu Fang Li and Lo Xie Jun were his mother and father who passed away in 1981 when Lo was the Health Minister. Allegedly, he had a quarrel with them after disagreement on how the government should be runned. The following day, Lo asked them to meet him at his house and wanted to settle the differences. However, when the pair was crossing the road, they were hit by a black car killing them upon impact. There were allegation that Lo hired a person to kill his parents believing that they would block his political gains. There were also allegation that he bribed the judge who was on his hitman's trial to give him a light 7 month and 10,000 dollars fine sentence for reckless driving. He denied all allegations relating to this and claimed that the media had been sworned by Left wing mobs who wanted to smear him.

### Contaminated Blood Scandal

The Contaminated Blood Scandal was a scandal in the 1980s when over 3,000 patients who suffers from heamophilia became infected with hepatitis C and a quater of those received HIV which would lead to AIDs and then death. s a result of receiving contaminated clotting factor products supplied by the Geuighaven Health Service (GHS) in the 1980s. Over 500 of them have died. The source of the blood is unknown but the GHS claimed at the time that it did not came from somewhere with high number of STDs at the time and many or the blood were from domestic blood donor. Some have raised suspicions about the contaminated blood believing that it was sabotaged by someone and then Minster of Health Lo supported this claim and stated that they are investigating into this. However, after many years and many public inquries into the issue, it has not been solved and documents relating to the contaminated blood scandal was missing when Labour Party took power in 2010. Some believed that Lo purposefully lost the documents.

### Electorial Fraud

In the 2015 General Election, there were allegation of electorial fraud according to the centrist Neutrality Party who believed that Prime Minister Lo have commited electorial fraud in order to win that year's election. According to Neutrality Party leader, Jelle Ceng Junli, Prime Minister Lo bribed the Guerighaven electronic ballot machine company Yi De Election System to change the vote casted for opposition party to be changed to the Progressive Party. Ceng also claimed that the electorial commissioner, Jochen Grunebaum, received an expensive painting costing over 10 million Gulden as a bribe to announce his party won the election. The electorial commissoner, Yi De CEO and the Prime Minister all denied these allegation. However, the Prime Minister did claimed that "the expensive painting as a gift by the country to him for his service to the country".