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Bill: LP - Electoral Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Malivia
Status[?]: passed
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: November 2433
Description[?]:
Amending the constitution to shorten the electoral term. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The length of a legislative and executive term, in months. Should be between 24 and 72.
Old value:: 72
Current: 48
Proposed: 48
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 02:57:38, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Malivia | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | This is obviously going to have to go to a debate, since we need a two-thirds majority to pass: Roughly 133 votes. My initial suggestion is to shorten it to 60 months = 5 years. |
Date | 02:58:34, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Malivia | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | I'd like to recall we passed a bill that will increased the number of seats in parliament to 450 for the next election. |
Date | 19:18:41, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Supporters of Science in Design (IP) | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | SSD still would prefer that they take place every two or three years, so as to maximize the responsiveness of the representatives. We would be willing to vote for a four year term, though. We feel that anything beyond four years gives the representatives a dangerous amount of leeway. |
Date | 03:26:28, July 23, 2007 CET | From | Radical Labor Confederation | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | The RSM would prefer at most for elections to occur every four years. |
Date | 21:39:07, July 23, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Malivia | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | While we feel that stability has it's benefits, we will agree to four years. |
Date | 15:52:08, July 24, 2007 CET | From | Malivian National Unity Front | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | While the Malivian National Unity Front supports shorter terms for the purposes outlined quite well by our respected members of the Rep Spartacist Movement. The N.U.F. would like to see the peoples will done and the parties held accountable. Let us not kid ourselves, those who would support longer terms have at the back of their mind an agenda-and it's power, no stability. We are in a Republic that's stability comes from the citizens ability to elect their dictators every X years; limiting that option is a direct threat to Maliavian's civil liberties. I respect all other parties right to be wrong in their opinion on this. However, the N.U.F. is making our agenda public. We will support this measure for purely pragmatic goals. . . |
Date | 01:52:03, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Malivia | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | NUF, none of the active parties is currently opposing this bill. Spare Malivians your fear-mongering. |
Date | 03:40:28, July 26, 2007 CET | From | Malivian National Unity Front | To | Debating the LP - Electoral Reform |
Message | The N.U.F. is entitled to clarification on it's platform and you will not stifle it nor write it off as fear-mongering. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||||
yes |
Total Seats: 200 | |||||||
no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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