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Bill: Denationalizing Likaton postal services
Details
Submitted by[?]: Edelweiss Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2093
Description[?]:
| Fellow Councillors, Last week our party's CI send a delegate to the main building of our national postal service, Likaton Postal S, in Nevarn City. To witness the upcoming closing of the financial year - the news was not positive at all, as expected. Likaton Postal S made a loss of 9,8 million dollar, not as much as expected but much enough for serious consideration in name of the future of this state company. After almost 50 years in business, providing the Likaton people with a decent postal service this company never succeeded in making profit and now in total, it has build up a debt of 322 million dollars. Thanks to government financial implent and juridical pressure, the company was able to avoid any cases of bankruptcy. The causes of the company's financial state are obvious, no strong delegations, no ambitious chairman, no new investments, after all it is government company and there hasn't been any competition from the start. The company has become a burden for the government and SocialGreens thinks actions have to be taken. Proposal: Denationalize the postal service, the government will sell the company's property to foreign private investors or postal service companies. We will also free the market which makes competition possible - which is always in the advantage of the consument - however slight regulations maybe required such as, only 2 or 3 postal companies are allowed to establish in our nation. We will execute a screening process for foreign offers, the best offers win. The question on how much the company's property has to be estimated remains open and is a case for the Minister of Economic and Internal Affairs, I would like to ask their intelligence about the subject. If proposal 1 is voted in favour, the Likaton government will make an international announcement to attract foreign postal companies. Their is however a back edge, the government has to take over the 322 million dollar debt. The trade union will protest this of course, therefore will set up a 'worker's plan' to keep the company's employee's in the postal sector, encourage new postal companies to recruit former L Postal S employee's. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:38:06, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the Denationalizing Likaton postal services |
| Message | We are more likely to support proposal 2. While we believe that free enterprise should have the right to grow as large as possible in almost any business sector, we believe that the postal service is one of these exceptions. We believe that mail is a very sensitive matter, both because it can be used to steal information and even attack our citizens, so the government should have a direct hold over the postal service. We agree that our postal service has to become as competitive as any private sector, in order to keep Likatonia's economy strong. I believe that the government should run the postal service, but with the benefits of any private business, such as greater control over the workforce. |
| Date | 23:25:00, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Edelweiss Party | To | Debating the Denationalizing Likaton postal services |
| Message | The protection of mail privacy is a good arguement, but the burden of the postal service keeps concerning me. It would be useful to let certain 'postal services' such as mail order, packages, logistics, airmail, express and taxi services, taken over by private companies. The government can keep hosting postal services for residentials. |
| Date | 20:12:29, August 08, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Denationalizing Likaton postal services |
| Message | We would support option 1, but question the restriction to foreign investors. Is there a reason to exclude domestic investment in such a sensitive area? |
| Date | 21:09:48, August 08, 2005 CET | From | Edelweiss Party | To | Debating the Denationalizing Likaton postal services |
| Message | RLP: A screening process is not a restriction but needed if it comes to the protection of our citizens privacy. |
| Date | 16:56:22, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Citizens Voice | To | Debating the Denationalizing Likaton postal services |
| Message | The ess the country intervene, the better... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 111 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 163 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 51 |
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