Duke Ruben of Miosma

Duke Ruben of Miosma (born 21st of January 1969 - September 2020) is a Dutch-Adorian politician of Democrats 69 who served as the 5th President of the Adorian Republic

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Before becoming a politician Ruben was a journalist and broadcast engineer at his regional public broadcaster in the Netherlands where he was born and lived there before immigrating to Adoria.

## **Politics**

### **Member of Parliament (Pre-Presidency)**

Ruben was elected as a member of parliament after Calamity left the party when he resigned as party leader, being reelected since for every single election. 2 times under the democratic left, 1 time as an independent, and 3 times under Democrats 69 passing bills on different subjects, including income tax reforms, the healthcare reform, creation of the national guard, the bill to break ties in Governor elections, the ban on smoking in public buildings, the creation of the Adorian Commerce chamber, the transition to green highways, helping ban animals from circuses, preventing governors of banning citizens from a province, the freedom of information act, and changing general elections from every 2 weeks to every week.

### **Member of Parliament (Post-Presidency)**

Ruben wrote his first constitutional amendment during his extended period as president banning slavery, involuntary servitude, and involuntary imprisonment. He also helped lowering government spending by cutting pensions by 40% and Created a bill that now forces Ministries to keep track of their spending. A lot of controversies surrounded Ruben post-presidency causing more and more of his former supporters to turn against him, some even calling for his head.

On the 16th of February Ruben announced he would not be returning to parliament.

### **Deputy Prime Minister**

on the first of March, Ruben returned to national politics as the Deputy Prime Minister of the first Adrian cabinet, and while in office was acting prime minister during the COVID-19 outbreak within Adoria for 5 days. He was simultaneously serving as Minister of Finance & Economic Development and introducing many reforms in the country, with new taxation law and a more efficient way of budgeting. He continued to serve as Deputy Prime Minister in the Ponderix Cabinet until the 21st of March when he was made Prime Minister after the resignation of Ponderix as Prime Minister.

### **Prime Minister and First Chancellor of the Empire**

Ruben became Prime Minister in the mids of a civil war between pro-Republican forces lead by SDP member Andefer and pro-Monarchist forces led by future Emperor Dr\_Kookoo. During the civil war, Ruben took a passive approach until the end and called for a seize fire on both sides and to hold a national binding referendum on the issue, however, neither side wanted to listen and continued to fight until rumors came to light that Ruben intended to use 2 nuclear weapons on the Political capital if neither side would stop fighting. During the civil war, Ruben resided in Somalia where he was later made an honorary citizen of their country.

As the first Chancellor Ruben has a tough time keeping his cabinet under control as many of them had sympathy for the Republican cause. He was working on plans on a reputation plan for casualties and damages done by both sides in the war but was never able to propose these plans to the cabinet and parliament as he went missing when his new A350 the same jet flown by the government and president/emperor of Adoria on the first of April while on his way back from Somalia above the central African jungle.

### **Associate Justice**

Ruben appointed to be Associate Justice and was handpicked by Prime Minister Mad and Minister of Justice MedianPancake.

### **Democratic Left & Green Left**

A former Deputy leader and party President for the Democratic Left he fought hard for the merger of the Democratic Left and the Green Party, which later together formed the Green Left.

### **Democrats 69**

After a long discussion with different members from the Green Left, Ruben formed Democrats 69 and was chosen as party leader, known as one of the most bipartisan politicians on adoria he was able to pass bills and referendums on different subjects, with his 2 most important acts being the reformation of the Government Structures and Reforming Article III of the constitution.

## **Presidential campaigns**

### **November 2019**

Ruben announced his bid for the 5th Presidential elections of Adoria a week After the 4th President of Adoria was installed, Ruben was running on the slogan "For a new Adoria". during his campaign, both Democrats 69 and the Adorian Nationalist Party endorsed him and won in the second round with a 52.5% majority.

### **December 2019**

On the 8th of December, Ruben announced his bid to rerun for President, being the first in Adorian history to do so. This time he's running on the slogan "Continue the change" which is a reference to his first slogan "For a new Adoria". He asked Lori Finn to be his running mate who agreed.

After a lot of backlash from the populace for the elections being influenced by Ruben and other senior members of Adoria Ruben lost re-election in the first round only getting 11.4% of the vote.

## **Presidency (December 2019)**

### **First week**

Ruben took office on the second of December after Gameofshits resigned early from office, he worked together with the former libertarian leader BluXtreme to reform Article VIII and called for the referendum

He was the first to have a vice president while in office, selecting Median as his vice president for this first term. The bill was written as Ruben announced that he would be having surgery, possibly within the next weeks. Requesting the Members of Parliament to create the position of Vice President.

### **Policy**

Ruben kept to a non-interventionist strategy most of his term, stating "the people have chosen and we must obey their choices" when new governments were formed, however during the last week of his presidency he vetoed 2 bills, with the most controversial veto being the veto of law 481. which would see the executive bodies and judicial bodies be more separated, rumor has it that the Justices and Judges at the time signed a petition for him to veto this and was pressured by them.

The second veto was a bill that would revoke the Central bank after the bill passed he vetoed the revoking of law 120 as he and his advisors found the Central Bank to vital to be removed during the economic crisis.

During his presidency, Ruben worked on numerous bills with his most famous one being the ban of slavery, involuntary servitude, and involuntary imprisonment

### **Criticism**

Ruben has been criticized a lot due to him being involved in a staff position that could make him change election results. It was one of the most controversial topics during his term and still continues to be to this date. Ruben his presidency was more turbulent presidencies in Adorian history and the most controversial one surpassing even former President Acrid.

### **Assassination attempt**

On the 9th of January 2020, Shortly before the end of his term, Ruben, in the presence of his wife Lori, and Chief Justice Hiten was struck by gunfire from would-be assassin Cyrill. Cyrill had previously called Ruben a cruel dictator and had made several threats to the presidents' address, however, no proper investigation was ever launched into these threats. On the day of the attempt on Ruben's life, Cyrill posted a public letter to every major news outlet stating "President Ruben is a cruel, autocratic tyrant" stating that Ruben "has caused more trouble than Adoria ever deserved" stating he did it out of "patriotism and the Adorian people"

## **Lobby Groups**

### **The LGBT+ 🌈 Community of Adoria**

Ruben is a founding member of the LGBT+ Community of Adoria, together the lobby group tried to ban discrimination against the LGBT+ community and other minority groups.

### **Corporate Adoria**

Ruben is one of the founding members of Corporate Adoria a lobby group that together with the Adorian Commerce Chamber helps businesses in the adorian law.

### **Other groups**

He's also a member of The Adorian Animal Welfare Association, Adoria 4eu movement, Adorian Journalist Society, The Fair Ballot lobby group, Cult of Chibism, and a former member of the Republicans for Adoria.

## Business career

### **Royal** **Bush & Sons B.V.**

Ruben Inherented Royal Bush & Sons B.V. when his father passed away, he quickly grew the company to become a multinational operating from 4 offices around the world. After a board vote, Royal Bush & Sons B.V. was renamed Royal Bush Brothers

### **Solvent City**

Solvent City is also known as the Macaws due to the team's colors being blue and gold. They've recently been taken over by the Bush Brothers their owner Ruben it was founded in 1913 however there is no clear data on the exact date.

### **Adorian Lawyers Association**

The ALA is a lobby group and law firm founded by Ruben, they help in all kinds of cases when it comes to Adorian law, including advice, settlements, and trials. They also help lawmakers write laws to see if they violate any previous laws or if they are constitutional.

## Citations

1. ↑ Around Septemeber Ruben went missing, rumor has it he was silenced by Matthew V. More info here.
2. ↑ Yes, the rumors are true. I have attempted to kill the President. I did not do it for me, I did not do it for a foreign power, I did it for simply for the good of Adoria. President Ruben is a cruel, autocratic tyrant who has overruled arbitrarily the will of Parliament and the People. He has caused more trouble than Adoria would have ever deserved. He needed to be stopped from destroying Adoria in a disastrous second term. I am just a small brick in the wall, it doesn’t matter what happens with me. What matters is that Ruben has been stopped successfully. I ask you all to forgive me for what I have done, but it was necessary. I did what my patriotism told me to. I did what Adoria told me to.