Carlo Mele

**Carlo Giorgio Mele** (\*29 April 1972 in Spalato, Kingdom of Illyria, Fascist Empire of Italy) is an Italo-Roman politician, author, political theorist and former journalist who has served as Supreme Senator of Rome from 2009 to 2017 and again a second time from 2020 to 2023. He has also served as Chairman of the Committee of Roman Renovation from 2008 to 2009 and as People's Secretary of Defense from 2017 to 2020. He has been a councillor for life of the Council since the end of his government term.

Born to poor catholic Italo-Illyrian fishermen, he was unable to attend higher education because of the elitist Illyrian oligarchy, however his parents managed to save enough money for him to visit evening high school from the age of 15 while additionally working as a shipyard worker. There he secretly came into contact with the manifests of Marx, Trotsky, Bakunin and Kropotkin and developed a liking for socialism and anarcho-syndicalism. He was drafted into the Royal Italian Army but after its dissolution in 1992, he decided to join the Illyrian National Liberation Army but soon left it because of its fascist attitude. After joining the 2nd Paris Commune in 1992, he was soon expelled because his view on socialism and tendency to collaborate with other progressive forces was deemed to be incompatible with the commune.

He soon joined the Republican Movement based in Barcelona, Catalonia, befriending the later generalissimo Lluís Ejarque. As a proponent of the Republican left wing, he quickly rose through the ranks of the National Salvation Front and became a marshall following the successful defense of the Pyrenees as the commander of the Revolutionary Guerilla Forces. He was one of the members of the College of Marshalls that elected Ejarque as the new generalissimo following the assassination of the previous Republican leader. After the establishment of the Roman Federation, he was allowed to continue working as a socialist journalist however he was accused of being an accomplice in the assassination of Consul Ejarque. Mele had to flee to Siam where he was involved in the buildup of the Pan-Siamese Socialist Movement and its eventual seizure of power.

Regarded as a national hero and socialist icon, his return to Paris following the 2008 general strike and the resignation of Consul Pîrvulescu was celebrated by a gargantuan crowd. As co-founder of the Fifth International and its Roman section the Pan-Roman Socialist Movement, later renamed to the Socialist Party, he is seen as the key figure of the Roman Revolution in 2008, that led to the overthrow of the Consulate and subsequently to the end of dictatorship being present in Italy and Rome since the implementation of fascism in 1922. Following the revolution, he became chairman of the Committee of Roman Renovation, the institution tasked with spearheading the implementation of Roman socialism and syndication. As first Supreme Senator of the Paris Republic, serving between 2008 and 2017 and again between 2020 and 2023, he is often labeled as the father figure of modern Rome. The policies and reforms introduced by his socialist government transformed the authoritarian Rome Republic into a parliamentary republic with elements of a direct democracy, essentially promoting Roman Integration and the establishment of a common Roman Identity paired with a highly competitive and socially secure socialist market economy.

His ideology and unique interweaving of Roman nationalism, federalism and economic socialist policies became known as Meleism that is influencing Roman policymaking ever since.
The so called Mele Doctrine is described in the Codex Romanus Sociala, an additional code of law illustrating the manifestations of Meleism, that include the five principles of the Roman people.
Nowadays Meleism is widely regarded as the savior of Rome‘s role as a global leading power on pair with the highly socially advanced nations of Central Europe, preventing the nation from falling backwater and apart.