Rosa Ortangon

Rosa Ortangon - also known as Rosaburgs - is a Lausán author and politician who most notably served the seventeenth General Secretary of the United Socialist States of Eldham. She also maintained elusive government positions such as the Partisan Chair of the Communist Party, a two-term Supreme People's Representative, Commissioner of Industry, and more.

She is well known for the legislation and open-essays she has authored boasting to a long and influential political career. She is considered one of the most widely respected politicians in the USSE, though remains also controversial. She is namesake of a series of reforms known as the 'Ortangon reforms' which she has since denounced. As of 274 TE, she has entered retirement after over 80 years of service in politics.

Early life
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. 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.

Ortangon Reforms (184-253 T.E)
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.

The Socialist Economy Act and Unified Socialist Economy Acts (199-253 T.E)
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 199 T.E. 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 to integrate the Council system and Jobs into the USSE's Government, and the act passed successfully with 9 voting in its favour and none against. The same year, Rosa proposed the Socialist Economy Act.

The Socialist Economy Act was brought forward not long after one of the main grinders for the USSE left and the Economy started crashing, and proposed 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 with the goal of merging the political and economic spheres. The initial idea was if a sector had more than 10 members then its representative would have become a member of the National Assembly. It also incorporated 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. The implementation 5 week plans through the beginning of bi-weekly quotas for these sectors to be discussed and decided upon by the Sector Representatives and approved by the Commissioner of Industry was likewise part of the Socialist Economy Act. Furthermore, it called for a requirement for each workplace with more than three members to establish a Union. Finally, the Socialist Economy Act proposed its codification 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 aye to 3 nay and two years later in 201 T.E was fully enforced with elections for the Sector Representatives being held later that same year.

Although a major victory for Ortangon and her supporters; due to the SEA passing during a period of inactivity its effects could not be known for a while. The quotas system was, from the beginning, incredibly inactive and there were issues with how there weren't enough people to actually run for the positions of Council-Managers. Because of these apparent inefficiencies in the implementation of the SEA, it would be succeeded by several pieces of legislation known as the "Unified Socialist Economy Act", the first version of which was passed in 206 T.E and the last in late 253 T.E with a total of 10 versions being proposed throughout this time. Currently only two of these versions are available; the "Unified Socialist Economy Act 2023" and "Unified Socialist Economy Act July 2023 S1.B3", both of which were authored by Estenis Cornaro.

The former initially just sought to repeal the original SEA and to be proposed in order to unify all acts related to SEA under one piece of legislation. It of course included the previously mentioned quotas system, worker's councils, the quotas, the recognition and encouraging of establishment of unions, sector representatives, council managers, etc... the only thing it really added was the inclusion of the formation of the "Economic Planning Council" which would be made up of all Sector Representatives and the Commissioners as a slightly more organised way of establishing the 4-5 week plans.

Meanwhile the latter was almost completely different from the previous versions, as it also included sections of the previously proposed "Second Phase of Collectivization Act". Its first section, "Economic Supremacy", made it so that membership in the Commissions of Development and Industry became mandatory for all workers in the USSE. It also ruled that signshops, a very individualistic form of business, must be registered with the the Government and be formed specifically by the permission of a Commissioner or Commission official with the intent of keeping all the buying/selling within the Commission of Industry and the newly-founded USSE Emporium to keep the money flowing in the economy. It made it so shops will be put into two categories; Domestic and Foreign, with the latter also having the probability of being assigned as an export-focused shop. Selling to foreign enemies and "to a person who is a non-citizen OR to knowingly continue the operation of a non-registered signshop" was made illegal with severe punishments. It again recognized the legality and formation of Unions and Cooperatives and enforced the illegalization of "Cartles" (explained in the Act as "A group of 2 or more citizens or non-citizens organized in capitalist production selling their goods or services for profit within the U.S.S.E."), considering them treasonous. Finally, the centralized most Economic planning around the Commissioner of Industry following the dissolution of the Councils and Sector Representatives. And thus far, this final version of the Act remains in place.

The Trinkets War & The Ukumari-Ortangon Government (213-)
Somewhere around the early 210s a group of Mercenaries led by the Valarian O-beep established a small nation named "Trinkets" on an Island in the Haxhoit Sea, later being found out to be with the intention of attacking the USSE. Following an incident where a PSB Officer mistook them for squatters and attempted to evict them; the Trinkets launched raids against cities such as Kazkaya and Sanguinople, even with continued efforts by the USSE Government to explain it was a mistake. And after an ultimatum where the Trinkets demanded four million in coin or land, which the Government of Emma T. Brewtaker rejected, the Trinkets declared war on the USSE with support from fellow Mercenary organisations such as the Paragonites.

Up until 225; Rosa did not do too much of note as one of the many grinders who served in the war economy during the war. That year was a scheduled election for the General Secretary and Emma Brewtaker declined to run for another term, and so Rosa's eyes were set on obtaining the position and to bring about her reforms, and win the war. Initially she planned on running as an independent but, following some negotiations where she was promised her reforms even in this position and a realisation that they share common goals, decided in the end to be the running mate to Marshal Magerius Ukumari. The Ukumari-Ortangon Ticket ran on a campaign of governmental transparency, cultural upliftment, to finish the transition into a planned economy, and, as with all Magerius campaigns, to bring a true sense of unity to the nation.

The Eternal Marshal and the the Reformist Firebrand; this ticket proved to be powerful, more than one might've expected. And as they ran against a campaign run by Mr. Nothing, who is known for losing elections, the Ukumari-Ortangon ticket won by a landslide with an impressive 80% of the vote. By this point the Trinkets war was still not over, though, and the new Government would have alot on its plate from day one.

Tenure as Partisan Chair of the CPUSSE (226-273 TE)
In 249 T.E Rosa led a vote in the CPUSSE to officially acknowledge the Supreme People's Assembly as the national legislature of the USSE in order to prevent another situation where the Central Committee had too much power like previously. This vote was under the "Defence of the Supreme People's Assembly" proposal, which passed in a vote of 31 for and only one person against. Nearly 9 years later she also called a vote on increasing the required threshold for party line votes to a 2/3 majority, this passing with 21 votes in favour and no opposition.

A few months after the voting threshold reform Rosa's closest aide, Estenis Cornaro, called a vote on the "Enforcement of the Party Line Policy"; which sought to grant powers to members of the Party to launch investigations into any member of the party who they believed was violating party line and introduced punishments to this such as warnings or temporary bans while making it clear that discourse can still be had in the party as long as it seeks to change the line in agreement with everyone else. This was actually the 4th draft of the proposal, previous ones being controversial for trying to introduce permanent bans and giving only the Central Committee the power to investigate, but finally it passed with 15 voting in favour and no opposition.

2 Years later, Rosa then introduced to the party the "Working Groups", designed to encourage discourse on specific policies in a more organised manner and in a way that can better help in proposing new party lines. As this passed in a vote of 15 Yes's with no opposition, she quickly found something to call for a use of these working groups; the continuation of her economic reforms.

In 257 T.E, 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. But by then age started to catch up to her, and not much was done in her second tenure in the Commission.

After several years of slowly backing away from the public life, and as she delegated more of her powers to the Central Committee, in 273 Rosa announced her retirement after 47 years as Partisan Chair, making her possibly the longest-serving high-ranking politician in the USSE's history. In her announcement she also stated that the Central Committee would take over for her until elections for the Partisan Chair are held, and she was met with cheers and support from most of the active members of the party. In the end she was succeeded by Pakartov Von Kessel.

Electoral History

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