Katerina Ganer

Katerina Dionysios Ganer Stephanopoulos (Greek: Κατερίνα Διονύσιος Γκάνερ Στεφανόπουλος, translit: Katerína Dionýsios Nkáner Stefanópoulos, Russian: Катерина Дионисиос Ганер Стефанопулос, translit: Katerina Dionisios Ganer Stefanopulos, 5 February 1935 - 3 November 2016) was a Robloxian politician who was Prime Minister from 2014 until her death. She was married to Nikolaus Stephanopoulos, who served as Prime Minister for two full terms.

She was born in Ostend, Belgium, to Greek parents. When she was 4 years, the World War II, and they were forced to move to Switzerland, and then to Greece in its final year. There, she was schooled to the St. Aloysius School, before attending college in the Ostend State University. In a trip, she met Stephanopoulos, and then she got married in 1963. Once married, she moved to Thessaloniki, and attained Robloxian citizenship. Her spouse served as Prime Minister, and she became the Spouse on Premiership of Roblox.

After years of political oppression by David Heller, she entered the Green Party, and won a seat for the National Parliament. She was instrumental on ousting David Heller from power, ending his 23-year rule. John Ling, the leader of the National Party at the time, became Prime Minister, but with threats sent by the Green Party, she became Prime Minister. She continued on what her spouse has done during the past premiership, and major infrastructures were made during her premiership. She improved several healthcare systems, and did several reforms to the education, healthcare systems, technological and economic development, liberalization of the media, fundamental human rights after the New Sun regime, as well as the social welfare systems. Law and justice has the most important change to date after the Heller era.

In September 2016, Ganer went on to have several sicknesses, and her blood circulation is lower than usual, this made Kasim exercising her powers for a while. She visited a doctor, and she declared herself healthy again. However, her condition worsened in late October 2016, and she was admitted to the Heraklion Hospital, nearby, and days later, she died in place.

Some scholars argued that she is one of the best women and Prime Ministers that the country has ever had, comparing it to her husband, and said that it is the most important figure on bringing about democracy to the Robloxian world.

Early life
Ganer was born in Ostend, Belgium, on 5 February 1935. Her father, Dionysios Akris, was a Minister of Homeland Affairs, and her mother, Maria Sakellaropoulou, was an English teacher. She did not attend school until 1946, after World War II finished. She was a prodigy and got excellent marks. She was known as reading in the politics of Roblox, and graduated from Ostend State University at the age of 18.

Her parents described her life as difficult, as she had mixed personality between her life, and became a prominent figure of the Unitary Republic of Roblox, thus attaining Robloxian citizenship, and one of the figures who participated on the organization of the Robloxian Revolution of 1959. She, however, did not participate in politics in Roblox.

Later, Ganer met Stephanopoulos during a tour in Ostend, when she instantly fell in love, and both of them are married in 1963. They had a cordial relationship on each other, as most of the time, Ganer became a political consultant for Stephanopoulos, thus enabling her to use the last name, Stephanopoulos. She gave birth to 5 children, most notably Andrea, who will become prime minister in 2021 following Harrison's vote of no confidence. She is popularly referred to either Katerina Ganer or Katerina Stephanopoulos. In 1980, Stephanopoulos was chosen as Prime Minister, giving her the role of the Spouse on Premiership.

Spouse on Premiership (1980 - 1990)
Her role on political negotiations seemed important to Stephanopoulos, as she travelled with Stephanopoulos on high-ranking diplomatic events. Some important reforms consulted by her included education, the Citizens' Law, and its neutral foreign policy. These were crucial on the creation of a re-naturalized Republic.

She supported peace and neutrality between countries, and criticized the Cold War that kept happening. Sadly, little to no change happened at that time, until she became a mediator on a conflict between the West and East Antarctic governments in 1982 to pick the better way on the reunification. She consulted to his husband, and ultimately brokered an agreement between two countries.

Education was one of the main issues central on his premiership, thus she offered a new agenda of school subjects, and relaxation of school punishments. This received generally positive reception, and these reforms were enacted in 1982. She also talked on how social welfare could affect the lives of Robloxians, thus she also deployed universal healthcare and education for the whole population.

She is known for her "wise words" and "competent speeches", in fact she sometimes represented her husband in international diplomatic speeches.

Returning to her home, and opposition to Heller
Following the coalition's defeat in the 1990 general elections, she returned to her home in Ostend, and regularly came back to her husband's home in Thessaloniki. At the time, he currently served as the Leader of the Opposition, although, in the 1995, Heller abolished the post. In an interview with an independent media named Robloxian Independent, on describing how authoritarian Heller is, she said,"I do not care, and I'll repeat that a thousand times. Whatever he wants to do, like transforming that country into a one-party state, revoking my citizenship, I like it here."Heller, in response, imposed sanctions, but reportedly "didn't care" and Ganer, along with her husband continued to openly criticize Heller. Ganer spent more time with her family, however, in the year 1999, his father died. A private funeral supported by the opposition was held after 3 days of his death. She still openly criticized Heller because he has "no heart" on politics.

In 2005, he joined the Robloxian Green Party in-exile, and supported the democracy movement. She rose through ranks, and in just 2 years, she became a deputy leader. In 2007, Heller started arrangements with Ganer to support a multi-party election, but Ganer declined it every time, and instead asked Stephanopoulos on the elections. Ganer said her thoughts in an another open interview,"Even with parties, it will still be a hybrid regime nonetheless. Everything associated to Heller is authoritarian, and I doubt he would be ousted because of his strongmen loyal to him."

Deputy Premiership (2010 - 2014)
After The Pact of Democracy was signed in 2009, Ganer still refused to come back to Roblox, but became a member of the then-unicameral Robloxian Council. The opposition took up 38% of the seats, while the majority coalition government retained the remainder of the seats. Heller appointed two senior opposition members, namely her and John Ling, as joint-deputy prime ministers. During this time, she virtually advised David Heller's work on several reforms.

Ganer still refused to go back to Roblox, until several opposition movements began to march for peaceful protests to lure Heller to call snap elections. However, in the middle of the peaceful protests, 14 men was shot to death by the state police. Further people hated the government and she, along with John Ling, ignited a riot throughout big cities, which would be known as the Robloxian Revolution of 2013. David Heller was impeached, and Ling was appointed as Prime Minister. Days prior, she was appointed as the Leader of the Green Party of Roblox. Ling still retained her as deputy prime minister along with 3 others.

Premiership (2014 - 2016)
Main article: First inauguration of Katerina Ganer, Second inauguration of Katerina Ganer, Premiership of Katerina Ganer

She reinstated her citizenship which had expired for a long time, and their coalition won the 2013 by-elections. Her party also won a plurality in the 2014 legislative elections, and the coalition altogether made a majority coalition government. Although Ling had been prime minister, no real program was introduced on his cabinet, and the parliament dismissed him in favor of Katerina Ganer, the leader of the Green Party, and Lorke instructed Ganer to form a government.

Cabinet composition
Main article: Ganer I Cabinet, Ganer II Cabinet

Ganer composed her first and second cabinet with 50% of the ministers being women. She wanted to compose with this way to show woman empowerment, and that she wanted to show the world on how strong the government could be with this composition.

Pacts for Peace
Main article: Pacts for Peace

To end the Eastern-Western conflict, she brokered 2 agreements, the first to establish autonomy, and the second is for a ceasefire agreement. Both agreements were signed by Nguyen Xu Han, the General-Secretary, Laas, the Western president, and was witnessed by Ganer, Yosie, and Junda, prime ministers of U.R. Roblox and U.S. Antarctica and president of DPR Roblox, respectively. Ganer and later governments until Harrison mostly reorganized the federal structure from states to equal country international representation.

Economic policy
Roblox suffered an economic recession as a result of the Robloxian Revolution of 2013, and the resulting political instability. Ganer, with the advice of federal economy minister David Hans, lowered interest rates overnight and decreasing government debt. It also seen the Unitary Republic of Roblox transforming from a market economy to a mixed economy, which proved to be successful. Economic growth from 2013 to 2014 was 9.8%, before recording a 10.1% growth, and later on, in her final year, 9% recorded.

Plans to make Robux a free floating currency were brought forward to the parliament and the central headquarters. These plans were subsequently declined as a free floating virtual currency would hurt the sales of Robux.

In addition, the launching of DevEx prompted the government to make a new peg between the Robux and the United States dollar. If using such currency, 1 USD would be pegged to 286 RBX. Since then, 2 pegs have run in parallel.