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Steve DeLuca is a  MNA and Minister of Defense for prime minister MapDude. =Early Life= Steve DeLuca was born in Abester, Brun-South on February 13, 1956 to a lower-middle-class family. Most of his earlier family immigrated to Doggerland from the United States during the Great Depression. Steve DeLuca joined the Doggerland Air Force at 18 years of age becoming an officer. After leaving he attempted to find work as a pilot, he failed and found work in aviation maintenance. During a vacation in Mexico, he was almost eaten by an alligator.

=Political Career= Steve DeLuca was first elected to the National Assembly in the March 2021 Doggerland legislative elections but lost his seat in the April 2021 Doggerland legislative elections. He then won his seat back in the May 2021 Doggerland legislative elections. Before becoming an MNA in the National Assembly he was first elected to the Abester city council. Steve DeLuca was elected Mayor of the city. After serving 4 terms as mayor he was then elected to the Grand Brun-South Assembly.

Abester City Council and Mayor
Steve DeLuca was elected to the Abester City Council and served in General Seat 3 and served in that seat for 6 years. During this time he introduced various economic and tax reforms to the Abester City Council and many were passed and implemented. However, the social reforms that were introduced at the time failed. In 1993 he was elected Mayor of the city, during his terms, he implemented the social reforms he originally introduced in the city council and extended the economic reforms. In 2009 his terms as mayor had ended as he was elected to the Grand Brun-South Assembly.

Grand Brun-South Assembly
Steve DeLuca was elected to the Grand Brun-South Assembly in 2009 and sought to expand his reforms to Brun-South as a whole. Disappointingly not very many of his reforms were never passed and those that were were scaled back. He was elected to the National Assembly in March of 2021.

National Assembly
Steve DeLuca has continued to push for his reforms. Many of his reforms had already been implemented by the government of Doggerland. This excludes balancing welfare with defense. In response to this Colonel Mossand him wrote the Doggerland Military expansion act. It failed in the National Assembly 51 Nay votes to 44 Yay votes.

Exit From the LWP
On August 2, 2021 Steve DeLuca left the LWP and joined the LP in response to the LWP attempt to work with the DCP to form a government.

DeLuca Reforms
The DeLuca Reforms were the reforms implemented mainly during his time as the Mayor of Abester. The reforms focus on expanding and maintaining social welfare programs and balancing them with spending on things such as defense or policing whilst keeping the spending that is being balanced at an adequate amount of spending. These reforms also have a focus on creating a truly equal justice system. Most of these had already been implemented by the government of Doggerland.