Walter Ulbricht

Walter Friedrich Ernst Ulbricht (Russian: Вальтер Фридрих Эрнст Ульбрихт, translit: Val'ter Fridrikh Ernst Ul'brikht, 10 November 1919 - 7 August 1989) was a Robloxian politician who served as President from 1963 to 1965, and later as Prime Minister from 1965 until his resignation in 1973. He was the first directly-elected President after the establishment of the parliamentary system, thus he was only granted ceremonial powers. He was also a long time protégé of Mike Hermson.

Born in the-then Weimar Republic, the family moved to the Soviet Union to learn about socialist politics. He later moved again to Macedonia, then part of SR Yugoslavia, where he found his later friend Mike Hermson. Hermson gave him several ministerial posts, before Karamanko appointed him as deputy prime minister.

After Mike Hermson resigned, he was nominally appointed with a snap election as ceremonial president - in which executive powers were only given to the prime minister and the cabinet. He oversaw further reforms in a democratic society enacted by him and Sonda, however vetoed some bills during his presidency, which caused some rage and left a mixed reception from the population.

Seeking a post as a leader of the Party of the People, he contested the leadership after Sonda announced that he had to resign. Ulbricht was a favorite among the leadership candidates, and won in a landslide victory, and with the Party of the People retaining its majority status in the 1964 legislative elections, Ulbricht was sworn in as prime minister. He formed a technocratic and leftist cabinet from 1965 to 1970, part of his first government.

During his premiership, he stabilized the economy, by further increasing wages in rural areas, attracting foreign investments, and adding strict anti-inflation currency controls, which resulted in the ROBLOX marks having the lowest inflation rate, as the exchange rate was between 0.97 to 1.03 per USD throughout his term. In addition, he also added "fist reforms" for the Constitution and the Citizens' Law, including lifting restrictions for the media, suspended capital punishment in January 1966 before abolishing them in March 1967, and lifted opposition bans. He attained a high personal popularity for the first 3 years, before dipping to one of the worst after saying that Aleksander Hynds should be killed in a speech, sending death threats to several countries, and its relationships with the labor community, despite its left-wing stance. Ulbricht's ratings did stabilize after adding a comprehensive law on labor issues.

The party enjoyed strong support in the 1969 Robloxian legislative elections, but it dipped from a majority to a plurality. Consequently, Ulbricht formed a coalition government with other leftist parties, namely The Left, with its official name being Socialist-People-Communist-United-Avante-Fatherland, attaining well over 72% of the Council seats combined. His second premiership was marked as the beginning of the fall of the ruling party's support, as he worsened the policies of his government, controversial speeches, and the 1970s Robloxian crisis. Thus, with an unpopular government, coupled with the brawl between Ulbricht and Nikolaus Stephanopoulos, then a new member of parliament, led to his resignation from all political posts, and he was replaced by Daniel Schelwing, who was also deemed unpopular, and led to the fall of the Party of the People in the 1974 legislative elections after 35 years of power.