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Bill: Open government
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2431
Description[?]:
| The people should be free to elect those who they wish to run the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The constitutional right and responsibility to propose a cabinet to the legislature.
Old value:: Only the Head of State can propose a cabinet coalition.
Current: Each party can propose a cabinet coalition.
Proposed: Each party can propose a cabinet coalition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:18:46, July 17, 2007 CET | From | Militarist Party | To | Debating the Open government |
| Message | I am in full support of this bill. |
| Date | 15:48:21, July 17, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Malivia | To | Debating the Open government |
| Message | This is absurd. The leader of the party with the most votes is called by the head of state to lead the government and create a coalition. Anything else is undemocratic. |
| Date | 18:09:20, July 17, 2007 CET | From | Radical Labor Confederation | To | Debating the Open government |
| Message | I support this bill. |
| Date | 18:50:57, July 17, 2007 CET | From | United Malivia | To | Debating the Open government |
| Message | I, as well, support this bill. |
| Date | 04:55:41, July 18, 2007 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Open government |
| Message | any other option would be undemocratic. A majority is needed to form the government and any majority should be free to do so. |
| Date | 16:40:05, July 19, 2007 CET | From | Supporters of Science in Design (IP) | To | Debating the Open government |
| Message | I ask the Liberal Party, what if the largest party is 40% and ultra liberal, while the other parties are mostly conservative and have (in combination) 60% of the seats? It is democratic to leave it up to the parties. |
| Date | 16:57:10, July 19, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Malivia | To | Debating the Open government |
| Message | Considering a coalition must meet 50% aproval, yes it is. The largest party's leader should choose whatever coalition he wants to establish. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 99 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 101 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In Culturally Protected nations, special care must be taken to ensure realism is maintained when role-playing a government controlled by an ethnic and/or religious minority. If it is to be supposed that this government is supported by a majority of the population, then this should be plausibly and sufficiently role-played. The burden of proof is on the player or players role-playing such a regime to demonstrate that it is being done realistically |
| Random quote: "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" - Mahatma Gandhi. |