Mike Hermson

Sir Mike Ivanov Hermson Pendarovski KBE NPk OMR (Macedonian: (Господине) Мајк Иванов Хермсон Пендаровски, translit: (Gospodine) Majk Ivanov Hermson Pendarovski, 17 October 1895 - 12 May 1982) was a Robloxian revolutionary and politician, who served as a Prime Minister and the first directly-elected President of the Unitary Republic of Roblox. He was instrumental on political reforms and igniting the revolution of 1959.

Born in Skopje, he studied Law in the University of Serbia and later in Tsinghua University. After graduating, he studied law and politics by himself, and then joined the democratic socialist Party of the People, before being elected as its leader in 1934. He led the party to a majority government in the 1940, 1945, 1950, and 1955 legislative elections. As a semi-presidential republic at the time, Jane Durarte opened a nomination for Hermson and Conrad Sonda, before picking Hermson the right to create a government for 30 days.

His premiership led the country to stable conditions from the Great Depression, a policy of neutrality on World War II, led the first nuclear test, new gun laws, bans on capital punishment, illegal assaults, and slavery, and laws on drugs. He also stroke out major industrialization, marking huge increases of the economy. His 19-year premiership is regarded as one of the best, and the longest since Conrad Fonda ascended to power and before Heller ascended to power, and the 6th longest since the establishment of the post.

A record of 12 people served as presidents during his premiership, a record for a Prime Minister. During his third and fourth term, Roblox suffered a large political crisis, which made presidents became corrupt quickly. Roblox also endured a financial crisis, and although he already used austerity measures, it failed. After popular discontent with the current government, he declared that the semi-presidential system "has failed" and would seek a parliamentary system instead. Popularity to Hermson increased dramatically, and they ignited a peaceful protest, and then a riot, which sought a new system to directly elect the President. The 1959 legislative elections sought the Party of the People attaining a supermajority, and the first direct presidential elections in the history of the Unitary Republic, securing 60.4% of the votes in the first round, making a second round unnecessary.

During his presidency, he further liberalized the economy, media, speech, and became one of the most known figures, as he looks as the "man of the people" hearing to the opinions and looking on what they needed to improve. However, before his term ended in more than two years, he suffered from lung cancer. Karamanko, the then-prime minister during his administration, reported that he had this since 1957, and he was noted as a heavy smoker. He resigned in 1963, and called snap elections. Ulbricht, Hermson's protege, won the elections, and subsequently, he was prime minister from 1965 to 1973. Hermson underwent chemotherapy, and left his public life altogether. Since 1978, his health has since deteriorated and he died in 1982. He was given a full state funeral, and her wife followed 13 years later.

Hermson continues to rank favorably as one of the best Robloxian politician. Supporters argue that he supported unity, brought back the parliamentary system from the Kingdom era, modernized the economy, noting equal distribution, and amendments to the Constitution further provisions regarding human rights. Detractors criticize him as an authoritarian - presiding over the regime of the Party of the People for nearly 35 years, undemocratic and uncompetitive elections, undermining its status as a middle power, and several violations on human rights, despite the added provisions.