Rob Mark

**Rob Mark** (7th June, 2021 - presents) is a Gabristani politician, businessman and statesman who serves as the first Prime Minister of the Monarchy of Gabristan and as the Party Leader of the Liberal People's Party since 7th June, 2021. He is also a Liberal Member of the Presidium of the Monarchy of Gabristan since 9th June, 2021. He has been described as a liberal democrat and as a cultural progressive, adhering to the ideologies of both economic and social liberalism.

He joined Gabristan as one of its first citizens on 7th June, 2021, and was appointed later on the same day as caretaker Prime Minister by King Gabriel I in order to keep the country running during the campaign period of the 9 June general elections. After the voting ended on 9 June, his party, the Liberal People's Party became the largest party and formed a coalition government with the National Conservative Party, allowing him to continue his premiership.

After three weeks of governing, and after huge scandals around his person and his party, he still successfully led the LPP into a second electoral victory on the 30 June elections, just two seats short of an absolute majority on the party's own. This later resulted in a renewed coalition cabinet between the Conservatives and the Liberals, keeping him in office as of this day.

Rob Mark is a controversial figure in Gabristani politics. By his political opponents (especially the Social Democratic Party) he has been described as elitist, classist and corrupt. While his political supporters see him as a fighter of populism and demagoguery.

## Early days

### Arriving to Gabristan

Rob Mark joined the Gabristan Discord server at 2 PM CEST, 7th June, 2021, by King Gabriel's personal invite. He was the second person arriving in the entire country, after the monarch of course.

At 9 PM CEST, he wrote an open letter to King Gabriel, asking him to appoint an interim government and an interim prime minister in order to avoid absolute monarchy, even during the two-days campaign period. He also offered his own services to the King, as the head of that government.

### Caretaker Prime Minister

Not long after the open letter, the King invited Rob Mark to form the RobMark I Cabinet, the very first national government of the Monarchy of Gabristan. This cabinet consisted seven crucially important ministries, with four Liberal, two Independent and one Social Democrat minister. Even though it was not a full-Liberal administration, but a more colorful one, it still received widespread criticism due to its unelected path to power. The main criticizer was Chitin, the back-then leader of the Social Democratic Party. It worth noting though that while it was in nature unelected, based on the polls and party memberships, the Liberal People's Party (which Rob Mark chaired) was by far the most popular political movement in the country, explaining the King's decision somewhat.

As caretaker head of government, he mainly focused on his party duties, namely campaigning for an LPP electoral victory. His most important contribution was launching a smear campaign against the SDP, with accusing them of being religious fundamentalists; many political scientists think that this move won the Liberals the election, but also, caused an immense amount of political hate towards him.

## First term (9 June - 30 June, 2021)

After his party won the 44.83% of popular vote and 13 seats in the Presidium on the 9 June elections, Rob Mark and Zulan Kahn (back-then chairman of the Conservatives) successfully negotiated the creation of a Liberal-Conservative coalition government, with four Liberal, four Conservative and one Independent Minister, plus Zulan Kahn became Deputy Prime Minister, the inaugural holder of that office. This government, the RobMark II Cabinet was later expanded and varied, after several appointments and resignations.