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==== The Tengrin Presidency ====
The people of Equatannia voted Representative Judy Tengerin, an attorney from Canora, to be the sixth President of Equaa in 1980, with her primary opponent Mikael Johns being selected as Vice President. President Tengrin's four terms as President were filled with years of increased industrialization and urbanization, as well as the decline and extermination of a majority of Equatannia's extremist groups. Tengrin did not publicly endorse a piece of legislation until her third term in 1989 when then Speaker of the People Karine Roswuud, elder aunt of current President Melinde Roswuud, proposed a bill that would create the foundation for a Federal Supreme Court and a district system of federal courts to better implement and enforce laws. President Tengrin helped write the legislation considering her past experience as an attorney and signed the bill into law in March 1990. The first judges on the Supreme Court were appointed by Speaker Roswuud after being approved by both chambers of Congress later that year.
The next few years brought the internet to Equatannia as electricity and running water had become a national standard during the decades prior. The governments focus on renewable energy meant that pollution in Equatannia was nearly obsolete, with wind turbines and hydroelectric dams being found throughout the nation's northern countryside. President Tengrin expanded highways through the early 1990s and helped fund Equatannia's first airport situated in the Equaan village of Fundaal. She then spent her time during 1994 and 1995 establishing federal departments for foster care systems, daycare systems, and low-income housing systems. These departments eventually merged into the Federal Assistance Department in 1996 that currently oversees all assistance programs offered by the federal government.
==== The Karine Roswuud Presidency ====
In February 1996, President Tengrin announced she would not be running for reelection in the Presidential elections later that year. She retained the tradition of a sitting President refusing to endorse any candidates, despite one of the candidates being one of her closest colleagues, Speaker Karine Roswuud. Roswuud campaigned on the expansion of President Tengrin's programs and idealogies, while also further expanding the small capitalist market that the federal government had only slightly assisted beforehand. She was elected with only 41% of the vote on December 5, 1996; the rest of the votes went to the other four candidates that had pulled significant numbers.
Her inauguration brought much praise from Equatannians, but also brought stirrings of turmoil due to differing opinions towards capitalism from some of the nation's far-left advocates and fellow Representatives. President Roswuud started her Presidency on loose footing with the endorsement of legislation that gave sitting Presidents the powers of Executive Action to implement immediate Executive Orders in place of Congress passing legislation. The barely passed legislation gave President Roswuud the ability to implement multiple plans that would have taken years to pass as legislation. These Executive Orders founded the Federal Investigation Bureau, the Department of Agriculture and Environment, and the Department of National Security. These departments respective responsibilities were to investigate possible crimes, regulate the agriculture sector and assist in environment protection, and fortify the nation's newly constructed bases throughout the nation. Although there were skeptics of the Executive Action ability, President Roswuud's valiant use of the Orders eased some unrest. Further legislation was passed in 2005, during Roswuud's third term, to further limit the ability of Executive Action, and gave Congress the ability to nullify any Orders if deemed necessary.
During her first two terms, President K. Roswuud greatly expanded the funding to the Federal Assistance Department and Department of Education, while officially establishing the Department of Infrastructure in 1999. the turn of the century brought much excitement to the nation, which lead Roswuud to win her first reelection bid with 71% of the vote. She helped expand voter rights protections in late 2000 and established multiple Discrimination Departments throughout the nation to help combat the little prejudice that existed. In 2002, she opened the first federally funded addiction rehabilitation center in east Equaa, which eventually lead to others opening in Freebelsta and Olepaut by 2004.
President Roswuud ran her third election campaign on the knowledge that it would be her last, which no President had announced prior. She also openly supported the idea of repealing the Foreign Affairs Neutrality Resolution (FANR) and allowing Equatannia to return to foreign diplomacy, to a decent amount of citizen's skepticism. With her highest election percentage, 76%, Roswuud was elected for her third and final term on December 5, 2004. Her youngest neice, current President Melinde Roswuud, was elected as Chancellor of Equaa that same day. During her final four years as President, President K. Roswuud
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