Rei Ryugazaki

Rei Ryugazaki (竜ヶ崎 怜) is the 33rd and current Deputy Premier of the Federal Kingdom of Teiko. A member of the Democratic Party, Rei became the first person since 1986 to win the Deputy Premiership from an opposing party.

Rei was born in Tokorozawa, Hanji, in 1966, and lived there for ten years before moving to Kamizaki. He attended Kogomo North Central University where he graduated Cum Laude in Bachelor of Laws in 1989. Rei was elected to the Teiko Royal Council in 1989 representing Kamizaki-PR. In 2001, he was appointed as Minister for Health, Education, Culture and Sports under the Premiership of Izaya Orihara. He then continued to serve as Minister for Social Welfare and Development serving under Premier Seijuro Akashi. Rei is one of the few cabinet ministers who hailed from the minority party.

In the 2015 national elections, he successfully defeated National Party deputy premier nominee Raito Yagami in one of the slimmest margin in the country's election in history.