Diane Hall

Diane Hall (née Gwynfor; born 17th December 1968) is the current President of the Centralist Republic of Rainier, elected in 2015. She became the leader of the National Union Party in 2011, and previously served in the Carwyn Maddock government as Minister of Social Welfare between 2003-5 and the Leader of the Opposition between 2011-2005. She also served as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Wallowa between 2001-2015, when she stepped down to serve as President.

Born in in 1968, Hall was a corporate lawyer united being elected to the Rainain parliament in the 1996 election, before being appointed to Maddock government as the Minister of Social Welfare in 1999 and Minister of the Treasury in 2002, serving until 2005 when Maddock lost re-election to Hannah Cheong-Leen in the election that year. As Treasury Minister she clashed with Maddock over fiscal policy, leading to her early resignation in June 2005. She sat on the back benches until 2009 when she made a political comeback, being appointed deputy leader of the National Union Party that year. In 2011 she was elected as a Chairperson of the National Union Party and thus became the Leader of the Opposition within the Rainian parliament.

In the 2015 election she was appointed as the National Union Party's candidate for the 2015 presidential election. Her campaign focused on welfare and taxation reform, cutting immigration and dealing with Rainiers high unemployment. Hall gained 25.1% of the vote in the first round, the highest of any candidate and subsequently entered into the second round against Conservative candidate Peter Faulkner where she moved to the political centre, winning with 57% of the vote.

Since becoming president, Hall has implemented a new immigration system, privatising government owned corporations and expanding social programmes. A self identified, Hall has been called a and a , being on the left of her party.