Editing History of Zamastan (section)

===Post-Gaviria Era===
[[File:Eleneabotsford.jpg|thumb|left|[[Elene Abotsford]] ]]
====Elene Abotsford====
In the wake of Gaviria’s assassination, Congressional House Speaker [[James Ebberson]] took the place of President-in-Crisis, and emergency elections took place on September 31st, 1972. Voters who once again went to the polls only a week after having cast their votes for a now slain leader chose overwhelmingly for a woman named [[Elene Abotsford]], a member of the Libertarian House of Zamah St’an. As the first female President, Abotsford was a champion for improved conditions for women, including labor laws, increased wages, and more individualistic rights for access to birth control. However, she did manage to win over the majority of the male vote as well by approving bills that endorsed male workers with the ‘2 or more’ program, which gave families with two or more children massive tax breaks in the midst of a booming economy from the Gaviria Administration. She also lowered the voting age in Zamastan from 18 years to 16 years, which empowered more young people to become involved in political processes. Another major accomplishment of Abotsford’s first two years in office was her pursuit of reforming the law enforcement process. She revamped and promoted judges who had histories of balanced decisions in their cases, as well as authority over significant circumstances such as police shootings, racial tension, individualistic rights, and steps overlapping the Zamastan Constitution.
[[File:Quinnwerner.jpg|thumb|right|[[Quinn Werner]] ]]

====Quinn Werner====
However popular and effective a president she was, voters found another person to put their faith in on election day, 1976. Elene Abotsford lost her bid for a third term to a 32-year-old man named [[Quinn Werner]]. Werner was a charming former sports-star turned actor turned politician, who rose to national prominence as the head of the Committee on National Youth Development and an avid supporter of younger generations. In one of the greatest voting turnouts in Zamastan, millions of teenagers now able to vote because of Abotsford’s decreased voting age law cast their polls for a relatable, youthful man from the Green Liberal Party. Werner’s first act as President was to revamp the education system of Zamastan, allowing for public school programs that were more inclusive to originally less opportunistic families. He also created a national food service program that distributed government mandated foods to poorer income families that proved incapable to sustain for themselves. These public service projects shaped the inclusivity and modern day civil prosperity ratings of Zamastan, which measure the livability factors of each aspect of the nation. Experts widely agree that these programs greatly improved life for Zamastan citizens as a whole. Due to the increase of food distribution and education reforms, the generations of Zamastanians became more healthy and intelligent as a whole.

Werner advocated immensely against illegal substance usage and smoking. He and his wife, Hera Maria Werner, broadcast weekly television prompts from the Presidential Mansion to encourage young people and older generations alike to drop bad and unhealthy habits and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Werner was originally a proponent of legalized marijuana usage, but amongst his promotion to the Committee on National Youth Development, he understood the possibilities of weed being used as a gateway drug and famously advised kids to “Stay away from bad stuff”. Hera Werner took a platform against bullying in schools, and often visited the nation’s institutions and met one-on-one with teachers and students. She is to this day one of the most renowned First Ladies of Zamastan.

====Election of 1980====
Both [[Elene Abotsford]] and [[Quinn Werner]] were able to accomplish major social changes and upheavals during their time in office without significantly effecting the national economy. This was mostly in part to the strengthened safeguards set in place during Marvin Gaviria’s administration to monitor the growth of monetary funding and loans throughout banks and the severity or loosening of trade deals with other nations. Quinn Werner remained in office for two terms, just like Abotsford. However, unlike his predecessor, he decided not to run for a third term, and after four years in office, stepped down to allow new possibilities. This came in the form of Tofino’s 4th district senator Larry Pattis from the Green Liberal Party (from which the popular Quinn Werner was a part of) and Pahl’s 1st District Congressman [[Aiden Avery]] from the Blue Conservatives Party. In one of the most hotly contested elections of all history, the sixth and final Presidential debate was broadcast on national television on September 5th, 1980. Pattis and Avery clashed specifically on the issues of taxes, gun rights, and spring ups of violence from Zamastan Separatists known as the Free Pahlan Front. Pattis remained with his left leaning viewpoints, while Avery wisely reached the more moderated middle ground. When the election day came around, the voting was Pattis with 49.8% and Avery with 49.9%, with the remaining 0.3% going to other candidates. Thus, the closest Presidential race in Zamastan history went to Aiden Avery. 

[[File:Aidenavery.jpg|thumb|left|Aiden Avery]]
====Aiden Avery====
President Avery’s most notable act in his first year in office was the passing of the Individual-Armament Act, which created a system of background checks for guns effective enough to stop the purchasing of firearms by people with certain mental health disorders, people with violent pasts, and people who couldn’t pass a one hundred question test about gun safety. Crime rates, specifically murders, significantly decreased, and gun deaths both accidental, intentional, or via suicide dropped from the 10th leading cause of death to the 64th leading cause of death. Experts attribute this law to the reason in 2017, Zamastan only saw 90 individual gun murders, though a mass shooting by a man with schizophrenia who stole a legal firearm did kill 34 people. However, the results are clear that the law greatly improved the overall safety of the nation without hindering too greatly on the rights of lawful gun owners.

Avery also passed a tax break amidst the roaring Zamastanian economy that benefited lower income families while also changing the rates (though less extensively) for incomes higher than $60,000 a year. However, a controversial passing of a tax increase for previously held health care plans made Zamastanians lose faith in Avery, and he lost his reelection bid in 1982 to Damian Lorrie.

====Damian Lorrie====
[[Damian Lorrie]] used the influence of Aiden Avery’s popularized policies to set up his own foundations for personalized freedoms. Lorrie approved bills that allowed for more individualistic states rights, though he did implement a federal allowance on the use of marijuana. Lorrie was popular under the premise that he held to the moderated line of conservative values mixed with the more liberal civil rights for people. However, only two months into his presidency, Damian Lorrie was killed when the Presidential Plane, [[Zian Prime 0]], crashed on approach to the newly built [[Tofino International Airport]].