Luis Ochoa Gutierrez

    

Luis Ochoa Gutierrez
Secretary-General of the National Republican Party
Incumbent
Assumed office April 14, 2022
Preceded by	Position established
Member of the Bernheim Board of Aldermen for the 3rd Ward
In office December 12, 2008 – December 16, 2020
Preceded by	Frederick Willson
Succeeded by	Andrew Crowley
Personal details
Born	(1982-08-17) August 17, 1982 Bernheim, San Joaquin, Sierra, Kingdom of Sierra
Political party	National Republican (2022–present)
Other political affiliations	Social Democrats of Sierra (2001–2022)
Spouse(s)	Marry Wellington (m. 2007)
Children	2
Education	University of Sierra, Bernheim (BA)
Occupation	Community organizer, politician

Luis Ochoa Gutierrez (born August 17, 1982) is a Sierran union leader, community organizer, and political who served as a member of the Bernheim Board of Aldermen between 2008 and 2020. A former member of the Social Democrats, he left the party in 2022 where he founded the National Republican Party and has served as its secretary-general since its founding on April 14. During his tenure as a member of the Board of Aldermen, he oversaw the completion of reconstruction in Bernheim from The Disturbances and has been a prominent supporter of the republican movement throughout his political career and began shifting his support to dissident republicanism in 2018.

Gutierrez was born in Bernheim as a second generation Sierran and is the son of immigrants from Mexico. He grew up during the Disturbances with his father being a supporter of republicanism and his neighborhood was attacked by monarchist paramilitaries which cemented his opposition towards the monarchy as he got older. He attended the University of Sierra, Bernheim after graduating high school and joined the Social Democrats while in college. He graduated in 2003 and became an engineer where he joined a local labor union for mechanical workers and eventually lead a local union in 2000s. In 2008, he was elected to the Board of Aldermen as a Social Democrat and defeated Democratic-Republican incumbent Frederick Willson.

As an Alderman, Gutierrez aided with the completion of post-Disturbances reconstruction and investment in public transportation and infrastructure in Bernheim. In 2016, he gained attention for his comments against fellow Alderman Joseph Neil of the Royalist Party for his support for Daniel McComb during the 2016 Sierran federal election, denouncing him as a "derzy sympathizer" and denounced McComb as "reactionary filth". He would garner further controversy for his participation in the post-election riots that occurred throughout the Styxie following McComb's win and in response to the assassination of prime minister Steven Hong. Despite this, he would be re-elected, but would lose in 2020 to Democratic-Republican Andre Crowley. After losing, he became more active in the Social Democrats and worked on the re-election campaign of Susan Kwon for the 2021 Sierran federal election. While he supported Kwon, he would form the National Republicans in 2022 in response to perceived lack of commitment to the republican cause by Kwon and announced the creation of a "true Sierran Republican Party" on April 14 at a republican rally in Bernheim.