Rolando Rubio Noboa

In this Creeperian name, the first or paternal surname is Rubio and the second or maternal surname is Noboa.

His Excellency Rolando Rubio Noboa OP
Rubio Noboa in 1930.
12th Prime Minister of Creeperopolis (disputed)
In office 2 January 1933 – 27 March 1936
Monarch	Miguel VII
Preceded by	Antonio Sáenz Heredia
Succeeded by	Mariano Alcocer Fraga
3rd General Secretary of the Creeperian Social Communist Party
In office 1 March 1928 – 27 March 1936
Preceded by	Joel Lacasa Campos
Succeeded by	Mariano Alcocer Fraga
Member of the National Parliament
In office 31 December 1922 – 27 March 1936
Preceded by	Santiago Molina Hurtado
Succeeded by	Vicente Ceballos Quiñónez
Constituency	La'Libertad
Mayor of La'Libertad
In office 31 December 1917 – 31 December 1922
Preceded by	José Mola Salinas (acting)
Succeeded by	Fabián Mora Rebellos
In office 31 December 1907 – 31 December 1912
Preceded by	Gustavo Figueroa Obregón
Succeeded by	Andrés Gaitán Herrera
Personal details
Born	Rolando Alexander Rubio y Noboa 15 July 1878 Mirandés, La'Libertad, Creeperopolis
Died	27 March 1936(1936-03-27) (aged 57) Adolfosburg, Adolfosburg, Creeperopolis
Cause of death	Assassination (stab wounds)
Nationality	Creeperian
Political party	Social Communist Party
Other political affiliations	Socialist Party (1901–1913)
Spouse(s)	Juana Dávalos Moreno (m. 1903; his death 1936)
Children	José Óscar
Alma mater	University of La'Libertad
Occupation	Politician, lawyer

Rolando Alexander Rubio y Noboa (15 July 1878 – 27 March 1936) was a Creeperian politician who served as the general secretary of the Creeperian Social Communist Party (PCSC) from 1928 to 1936 and as the Miguelist prime minister from 1933 until 1936.

Rubio Noboa's was elected as mayor of La'Libertad twice, serving from 1907 to 1912 and from 1917 to 1922, with a five year interruption due to his failed effort to run for representative of La'Libertad's 3rd district. He was later elected as a representative of the department's 3rd district in 1922, and served as its representative until 1936. In 1928, after the assassination of communist prime minister Joel Lacasa Campos during the Crisis of 1928, Rubio Noboa assumed leadership of Creeperian Social Communist Party.

Following the outbreak of the Creeperian Civil War in 1933, he swore his allegiance to the National Council for Peace and Order (National Council) and was appointed as its prime minister. He was assassinated in 1936 by the Atheist Red Army (ERA), which replaced him as general secretary and prime minister with Mariano Alcocer Fraga, one of Rubio Noboa's rivals.

Early life

Rolando Alexander Rubio y Noboa was born on 15 July 1878 in Mirandés, La'Libertad, Creeperopolis. His father was José Rubio Espinoza, a Creeperian military officer, and his mother was Carmen Noboa Quiñónez. He was the second of four children, with his siblings being José, Anastasia, and Orlando. He attended the University of La'Libertad and studied law from 1896 to 1902.

Early political career

Rubio Noboa entered politics during the prelude to the 1902 general election. He joined the Creeperian Socialist Party (PSC) in 1901 and announced that he would be running for mayor of Mirandés, the city where he was born. As a young and promising candidate, his candidacy was confirmed by the Creeperian Socialist Party and was also endorsed by the Creeperian Social Communist Party (PCSC), which elected to not send a candidate in the election. Despite the support of both left-wing parties, independent politician Arnulfo Barrios Morelos, who was endorsed by both the National Conservative Party (PCN) and the National Liberal Party (PLN), defeated Rubio Noboa by 14 points.

The 1902 election was a sweeping victory for the Catholic Royalist Party (PRC) at the national level, gaining 14 seats to accumulate a total of 46 seats. The party selected its leader, Antonio Sáenz Heredia, to serve as prime minister of Creeperopolis. Rubio Noboa decried his election, claiming that the election was rigged in his favor. He quickly became one of Sáenz Heredia's most vocal non-parliamentary opponents, which helped gain him popularity among many leftists in La'Libertad.

As the 1907 general election approached, Rubio Noboa announced that he would be running for the mayorship of La'Libertad, the capital city of the department of La'Libertad. The communists, as they believed that they would be unable to send an electable candidate, endorsed the socialist politician's bid for mayor. Likewise, the liberals also endorsed Rubio Noboa, as incumbent liberal mayor Gustavo Figueroa Obregón had recently been accused of embezzlement and misuse of public funds, and announced that he would not be seeking reelection as his public reputation had been effectively tarnished.

In the election, Rubio Noboa's only opponent was conservative Nicolás Contreras Yagüe, who also had the support of the royalists which did not send their own candidate. Rubio Noboa narrowly won the election, defeating Contreras Yagüe by 3 points. Contreras Yagüe protested the election results to the Creeperian National Electoral Integrity Tribunal (TIENC), claiming that the election was rigged by the National Liberal Party, however, the tribunal rejected his complaint and confirmed Rubio Noboa as the election's winner on 18 December 1907.

Mayor of La'Libertad

First term (1907–1912)

On 31 December 1907, Rubio Noboa assumed office as mayor of La'Libertad, becoming the first socialist elected to the position. In his inaugural speech to a crowd of supporters, he announced that he would thoroughly prosecute any politicians accused of corruption and improve the living standards of the city's inhabitants.

Knowing that defending Figueroa Obregón would hurt the party's reputation, the National Liberal Party expelled Figueroa Obregón from the party and offered to cooperate into the municipal government's investigation into his corruption case. As he Figueroa Obregón was also despised by conservatives and royalists, they reluctantly supported Rubio Noboa's anti-corruption initiative, however, some politicians opposed his efforts, believing that they could get caught up due to their own corrupt dealings in the past or that it would be used to arbitrarily suppress political opponents.

On 5 January 1908, Rubio Noboa took over control of the city's major football club, CF La'Libertad, and made the club official city property with the mayor (himself) serving as the club's president. The club had just been promoted to the Liga Nacional from the Liga 2, and he restructured the club's management to improve the club's performance. As a result of the city's acquisition and the managerial changes, the club finished 4th in the league that year, the club's best performance since 1905. Both left and right-wing politicians and voters from the city supported his actions, while politicians and voters from other cities criticized his actions, denouncing them as a blatant abuse of power to benefit the club. Even some leftists criticized him, as his actions negatively affected their own clubs' placements.

Between mayoral terms

Starting in late 1909, a little over three years until the next general election, Rubio Noboa announced that he intended to seek election to the national parliament and that he would stand for election in the department's 3rd district. He initially sought to stand for La'Libertad's 1st district, but he decided to instead stand for election from his native district after an agreement was reached with the 1st district's incumbent representative, Inhué Ordóñez Yepes, which stipulated the National Liberal Party would endorse Rubio Noboa's candidacy and the Creeperian Socialist Party would endorse Ordóñez Yepes' candidacy.

Despite his active campaigning and general popularity among voters, he lost to Julio Castro Enríquez of the National Conservative Party. Rubio Noboa believed the election was fraudulent, as many leftist voters at the time did, and he was a vocal leader of the 1912–13 protests against Sáenz Heredia's government. In March 1913, as Rubio Noboa began to believe that the Creeperian Socialist Party was not taking enough action, he switched parties and became a member of the Creeperian Social Communist Party. After he changed parties, he began to shift his goals and ambitions further to the left.

As the 1917 general election approached, he announced that he was running to be reelected as mayor of La'Libertad. Andrés Gaitán Herrera, a Creeperian Socialist Party politician who succeeded Rubio Noboa as mayor, announced that he would be seeking reelection and stood in opposition of Rubio Noboa's candidacy. Rubio Noboa knew that both candidates running would split the leftist vote and help the Creeperian Conservative Coalition candidate from either the National Conservative Party or the Catholic Royalist Party win the election.

On 22 September 1917, only nine days before the election was scheduled to occur on 1 October 1917, Gaitán Herrera was assassinated by gunmen while giving a speech promoting his campaign for mayor. The assassination was condemned by both the Creeperian Conservative Coalition and the People's Social Coalition, however, responsibility for the assassination remains a matter of debate. The assassins were never convicted and no arrests were ever made. Left-wing politicians blamed the far-right Falange Creeperiano (FC), the paramilitary of the Catholic Royalist Party, claiming that there were also plans to assassinate Rubio Noboa as well, however, no attempt manifested. Meanwhile, right-wing politicians accused the Atheist Red Army (ERA), the paramilitary of the Creeperian Social Communist Party, claiming that the party sought to eliminate Gaitán Herrera who was Rubio Noboa's primary opponent and biggest threat in the election.

The election for mayor proceeded on 1 October 1917, and as Gaitán Herrera was no longer standing for election, Rubio Noboa decisively defeated Catholic Royalist Party challenger Agustín Carrera Molina. Rubio Noboa was helped by the fact that after Gaitán Herrera was assassinated, the Creeperian Socialist Party finally endorsed him for mayor. The National Liberal Party, however, originally endorsed Gaitán Herrera, and after his assassination, the party refused to endorse a candidate or send one themselves.

Election to parliament

Rubio Noboa (rightmost) at a meeting of the 10 representatives of the PCSC in 1928.

Personal life

Family

Rubio Noboa married Juana Dávalos Moreno in 1903. They had two children: José (born 1904) and Óscar (born 1906).

Electoral history

1902 Mirandés municipal election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Arnulfo Barrios Morelos	Independent–PCN–PLN	22,231	45.29
	Rolando Rubio Noboa	PSC–PCSC	15,215	31.00
	Luís Suárez Molina	PRC	11,642	23.72
Total			49,088	100.00
Source: Creeperian National Electoral Integrity Tribunal

1907 La'Libertad municipal election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Rolando Rubio Noboa	PSC–PCSC–PLN	32,523	52.11
	Nicolás Contreras Yagüe	PCN–PRC	29,885	47.89
Total			62,408	100.00
Source: Creeperian National Electoral Integrity Tribunal

1912 La'Libertad 2nd District election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Julio Castro Enríquez	PCN–PRC	99,551	51.20
	Rolando Rubio Noboa	PSC–PCSC–PLN	89,568	46.06
	Armando Ramírez León	Independent	5,321	2.74
Total			194,440	100.00
Source: Creeperian National Electoral Integrity Tribunal

1917 La'Libertad municipal election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Rolando Rubio Noboa	PCSC–PSC	34,623	56.32
	Agustín Carrera Molina	PRC–PCN	26,856	43.68
Total			61,479	100.00
Source: Creeperian National Electoral Integrity Tribunal

1922 La'Libertad 2nd District election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Rolando Rubio Noboa	PCSC–PSC	75,932	37.40
	Armando Ureña Callejas	PRC–PCN	74,210	36.55
	Santiago Molina Hurtado	PLN	35,145	17.31
	Farabundo Gutiérrez Hidalgo	FPPC	15,631	7.70
	Armando Ramírez León	Independent	2,121	1.04
Total			203,039	100.00
Source: Creeperian National Electoral Integrity Tribunal

Orders and decorations

• Member of the Order of the Parliament (4 January 1928)

See also

• List of Miguelist politicians

Political offices
Preceded by Antonio Sáenz Heredia	Prime Minister of Creeperopolis (disputed) 1933–1936	Succeeded by Mariano Alcocer Fraga
Preceded by Santiago Molina Hurtado	Representative of La'Libertad's 2nd District 1922–1936	Succeeded by Vicente Ceballos Quiñónez
Preceded by José Mola Salinas (acting)	Mayor of La'Libertad 1917–1922	Succeeded by Fabián Mora Rebellos
Preceded by Gustavo Figueroa Obregón	Mayor of La'Libertad 1907–1912	Succeeded by Andrés Gaitán Herrera
Party political offices
Preceded by Joel Lacasa Campos	General Secretary of the Creeperian Social Communist Party 1928–1936	Succeeded by Mariano Alcocer Fraga