Rosa Ortangon

Rosa Ortangon, also known as Rosaburgs, is an Author and Politician who was the 17th General Secretary of the United Socialist States of Eldham and is now serving as Partisan Chair, Representative for the Supreme People's Assembly, and Commissioner of Industry. Her long and influential career has made her a widely respected but also controversial figure, known mostly for being the namesake and leader of the "Ortangon Reforms", which affect the USSE to this day.

Humble Beginnings and a Rapid Rise to Power
Rosa was one of the first members of her family to be born on Eldham. As a descendant of Rathnirians from the subcontinent of Vastallos. Her family members were Silsian Nationalists who had failed at achieving independence from Astana (known today as Denthros). Having temporarily lived in an artificial island fortress named Silsia; her family ended up leaving to Eldham in search for a new and better life.

Born and raised in Kazkaya; Rosa grew up a humble but incredibly dedicated cactus farmer until then-Executive Advisor Gaboliver Urabon noticed her and, having recognized how good of a worker she was, recommended her to be the next Commissioner of Development for General Secretary Chelovek Serebra III, which she won only a week after joining the server.

First Years in Government & Beginning of the Ortangon Reforms
Due to her incredibly quick rise to prominence and thus lack of experience Rosa initially took the backseat in the Government while making sure to take advice from her more experienced peers, who warmly welcomed her to the Government. Being in the backseat did not last long as she quickly got the hang of it, also getting elected to the National Assembly as Representative for Kazkaya shortly after her appointment. Her term was Commissioner of Development was marked by a large focus on economic production instead of construction. But it was still an influential time as it set the groundwork for what she will be remembered for in the future.

What was possibly the most major reform during her tenure in the position was what led to her leaving it as she proposed a constitutional change to divide the Commission of Development into two: thus establishing the Commission of Industry, of which she became the first Commissioner.

Commissioner of Industry
Until Rosa's time as Commissioner of Industry the economy of the USSE was largely organized; having been centred around collective leadership with only a did a lot of the work (grinding) for it. And began, from when she was Commissioner of Development, to think up a way to implement a more organised, planned economy. The first instance of which can be seen with her "Collectivisation in the USSE: The process of making a democratic and productive economy" proposal from late November of 2022. Alongside this proposal, Rosa seconded another important act on the same day: The "Worker Council Act" proposed by Aster Cornaro. The WCA saw the establishing of Councils in most sectors of the USSE; Local Governments and Industrial Councils with the intent of starting to organise the national economy, and the act passed successfully with 9 voting in its favour and none against. A day later, on December 1st, Rosa proposed the "Socialist Economy Act".

The Socialist Economy Act proposed the following:


 * 1) The establishing of Representatives for the various sectors of the economy, all of whom would be elected directly by the workers and be in their position indefinitely until they are voted out, resign, or removed.
 * 2) In an expansion of the Worker Council Act: Worker's Councils would need to elect one member to become the "Council-Manager", who is to answer to the Sector Representative. These managers would have the right to start a court case to fire workers who they judged as unable to do their work or hindersome to their coworkers.
 * 3) The implementation of bi-weekly quotas for these sectors to be discussed and decided upon by the Sector Representatives and approved by the Commissioner of Industry.
 * 4) A requirement for each workplace with more than 3 members to establish a Union.
 * 5) And for the codification of the Socialist Economy Act into the Constitution of the United Socialist States of Eldham.

Initially Ortangon's reforms faced stiff opposition. Not from any ideological disagreements with her but mostly because of a great misunderstanding of what these reforms would actually entail. But ensuing a campaign of having to tirelessly answer the people's questions the SEA was passed successfully in a vote of 9-3 (Aye/Nay) and a week later on December 8th the Act was fully enforced with elections for the Sector Representatives being held on the 11th.

Return to the Commission
On July 20th, following the previous Commissioner of Industry's ascension to the role of Deputy Secretary after the resignation of the previous one, Rosa was returned to be the Commissioner of Industry in the cabinet of the not-so-newly re-elected General Secretary Magerius Ukumari, who noted her experience with and dedication to economic reforms in the USSE in the announcement of her appointment.