Gloria Tory

**Gloria Tory** is a Sordish politician, member of assembly and the current Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Sordland since 1949. She has been a member of the assembly since 1937.

## Biography

After graduating from Holsord State University, Gloria was elected as the president of the student organization, Republican Youth. She supported the democratic revolutionaries and was credited for organizing several major student rallies during the last years of the Sordish monarchy.

Before her election to the assembly, she worked at several jobs, including a lobbying firm and a school of public speaking and debating. In 1929, she became a member of the United Sordland National Committee from Vesord.

Gloria rose quickly in USP after she was elected to the Grand National Assembly in 1937. She was appointed as a special adviser to the Minister of Interior in 1938, before being brought as the frontbench spokeswoman for Home Affairs in 1942, and the spokeswoman for Education in 1944. In 1949, she was elected as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, in protest against President Ewald Alphonso's reformist agenda. She is the first woman in Sordland to hold that position.

She was a strong critic of Ewald Alphonso’s presidency, and she became famed for her obstructions in the assembly of some of his policies. Regarded as a charismatic politician and a tough negotiator, she is credited for major lobbying incidents within the USP which shifted the political landscape during the last decade. After the 1953 elections, she was elected speaker for a second time.

## Role

Gloria Tory serves as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, and as the leader of the USP's conservative wing. Although she is a Sollist, Tory discreetly admits that she supports women's rights in Sordland, telling Rayne that letting Monica speak at Benfi will only result in her harming the women's rights movement, as it will put off many conservatives if she speaks in a religious event. She also admits that she believes some reforms are necessary to ensure the USP's survival, and believes that if Rayne goes too far with the reforms, whoever does not support his reforms will just reverse it as soon as they become president. Unlike her reformist counterpart Albin Clavin, Tory cannot be bribed.

Should the player go down the reformist route, she will not support the decrease of the electoral threshold to 3% or decrease it to 8% while removing Soll's Member of Honor status at the same time, unless promised the player won’t prosecute Colonel Soll. Furthermore, Tory will not support the player if they refuse to drop Monica from the Benfi Festival speech should they have allowed her to do so. After securing her support, the player must not touch the Sordish State Corporation or Healthcare during privatization, or else she will withdraw her wing's support. She can become the Vice President or the Justice of the Supreme Court, though if the player attempts to trial Soll with her as a Justice, Soll will be found not guilty.

It is possible to pursue an ultra-reformist constitution without Gloria's support if they player managed to secure Mansoun Leke's independent votes and used personal wealth to lobby in the lead-up to the Constitutional Vote.

In the New Amendment update, Gloria is a strong opponent to changes of Article 6 & Article 7, as do almost everyone in the USP, which makes passing these articles without her support virtually impossible for the party unless the player gives away substantial concessions. These changes, unlike the changes in the main constitutional reform draft, cannot be forced through by bribing Calvin or lobbying the assembly and makes negotiations with Gloria essential.

## Trivia

* Gloria's last name, Tory is a common slang term for the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom. Her personality also resembles that of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.