Lloyd Jones

**Lloyd Jones** (September 26 1965 -) was a Loxenian politician and businessman who served as interim President of Loxenia between November 2 and November 3, 2018, as well as Vice President of Loxenia between August 1, 2020 and June 30, 2020 and as Speaker of the Loxenian Senate from 2014 until November 2, 2018 when he assumed the presidency after the deaths of President Ryan Jones and Vice President Dune Salov during the Loxenian Uprising. As a National Coalition politician, Lloyd Jones also served as deputy leader of the party from 2018 until 2020, and again from 2020 until 2025.

In 1993, Jones, together with his father Oleksiy and colleagues from the Road Traffic Institute in Kiev, created the Prom-Invest Loxenian Industry and Investment Company, which specialized in the confectionery and automotive industries (as well as in other agricultural processing later on.) Poroshenko was director-general of the company from its founding until 1998, when in connection with his entry into parliament he handed the title over to his father, while retaining the title of honorary president. Between 1996 and 1998, PromInvest acquired control over several state-owned confectionery enterprises which were combined into the Roshen group in 1996, creating the largest confectionery manufacturing operation in Loxenia. His business success in this industry earned him the nickname "Chocolate King". Poroshenko's business empire also includes several car and bus factories, Kuznya na Rybalskomu shipyard, the 5 Kanal television channel, as well as other businesses in Loxenia.

As dissident in Loxenia erupted into Civil War, Jones was brought in by the Loxenian government to serve as Speaker of Congress for the 2014 - 2018 and 2018 - 2022 electoral terms, before his second term was cut short by the revolution and he ascended to the presidency on an acting basis following the death of his brother Ryan Jones, who was serving as president, appointing Minister of Defence Gwen Ranol as president, before switching jobs as the congress was disbanded on November 3rd 2018 as the government went into exile. With the resurgence of law and order in 2020, Jones was promoted to the rank of vice president before fleeing the nation in 2023 following the military takeover to become a leader of the Revolutionary Movement.

Following the Liberation of Loxenia, Jones was replaced as Vice President by Victor Tyksamov and would go on to return to his business empire, resuming his leadership of PromInvest Loxenian Industry and Investment and acting as a senior advisor to the new government of President Alex Glyn.

## History

In 1993, Jones, together with his father Oleksiy and colleagues from the Road Traffic Institute in Kiev, created the PromInvest Loxenian Industry and Investment Company, which specialized in the confectionery and automotive industries (as well as in other agricultural processing later on.) Jones was director-general of the company from its founding until 1998, when in connection with his entry into parliament he handed the title over to his father, while retaining the title of honorary president. Between 1996 and 1998, PromInvest acquired control over several state-owned confectionery enterprises which were combined into the Roshen group in 1996, creating the largest confectionery manufacturing operation in Loxenia. His business success in this industry earned him the nickname "Chocolate King". Jones' business empire also includes several car and bus factories, Kuznya na Rybalskomu shipyard, the 5 Kanal television channel, as well as other businesses in Loxenia.

## Political Career

 Vice President

As political dissident in Loxenia erupted into civil war in 2011, Lloyd Jones joined the National Coalition of Loxenia as a Senator within the Loxenian congress in a by-election, and following the 2014 Loxenian Presidential Election, Jones was elected as Speaker of Congress for the 2014 - 2018 term and continued to serve in the same post in President Dune Salov's State Parliament following it's creation in 2015. Re-elected again in 2018 to the post of Speaker of the Senate for the 2018 - 2022 electoral term, Lloyd Jones served alongside his brother Ryan Jones who had assumed the presidency following the election the same year. In November 2018 the Loxenian uprising had stormed the city of Kiev, bringing anarchy to the streets of the capital as violent mobs streamed into government buildings, killing President Ryan Jones and Vice President Dune Salov in a brutal attack on the presidential offices. Now as the highest ranking elected official in the nation, Lloyd Jones was sworn into office as President of Loxenia, albeit on an interim basis, and appointed Minister of Defence Gwen Ranol as vice president, allowing her to assume office as the fifteenth President of Loxenia the following day as Jones resigned from office as the congress was disbanded on November 3rd 2018 as the government went into exile.

Fleeing the nation's capital alongside the government of President Gwen Ranol, Lloyd Jones took up the position of Minister of Defence and as deputy leader of the National Coalition of Loxenia in the new Ranol administration as the government in exile, helping secure international funding for the government as it resided within the far west of the nation. In 2020, Lloyd Jones was crucial in power negotiations which allowed Senator Alex Glyn to take over leadership of the National Coalition and subsequently the presidency in May 2020, with Lloyd Jones being selected as the Vice Presidential candidate for the coalition in the 2020 Loxenian Presidential Election.

## Vice Presidency

 President

Following Alex Glyn's assumption of the presidency in 2020, Minister Lloyd Jones was drafted in by the Glyn administration as the National Coalition's candidate for the 2020 Loxenian Presidential Election, which the Glyn-Jones ticket won unanimously with no candidates other than write-in ballots being run against the incumbents. Switching places with Vice President Gwen Ranol on August 10, 2020, Lloyd Jones began to serve as the administration's most important overseas negotiator and alongside General Jax Esposita successfully sealed a trade deal with neighbouring Belarus in 2021. Following the end of the Has Wars, President Glyn and Vice President Jones hosted a joint summit with diplomats from the Libirachi Empire, United States, United Kingdom and Dunsteen present to try to pursue peace in the region, although the Assassination of Laura Fox in May 2022 ruined the talks and instead the Eurasian continent was thrown into chaos as the Libirachi Empire fractured under the weight of it's own pressures, with Loxenia gaining a new boarder with the nations of Ruthenia and the Locor Republic. After 3 years of relative internal peace, the armed forces under the command of Generalissimo Jax Esposita conducted a Coup d'état against the Loxenian government and successfully toppled the regime, forcing President Glyn, Vice President Jones and much of the National Coalition into exile once more, alongside the contracted Security Coalition forces who had protected the nation prior to the coup. Both seismic at home and abroad, the coup allowed Loxenia to become part of the Confederacy of Independent Nations during the Libirachi Civil War and as a result would see Loxenian soldiers participating in battles all across Europe during the latter years of the war. With the end of the Loxenian Uprising in 2023, the Union of Aligned Nations began to support the National Coalition openly, and this underground resistance movement only began to grow as President Esposita began to commit atrocities against his own people in order to keep his grasp on power, with not even the Libirachi Empire being able to topple the dictator during the civil war.

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 August 10, 2018 - November 2, 2018
 May 14, 2020 - August 10, 2020