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Bill: Increase Effective 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: September 2097
Description[?]:
| Rapid elections cause a larger percentage of time lost learning the ropes as a new government is elected and spent campaigning in an effort to remain in office. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The length of a legislative and executive term, in months. Should be between 24 and 72.
Old value:: 24
Current: 60
Proposed: 36
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:13:37, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | As has always been the case, Malivia should be proud of our commitment to democracy and political accountability. Our frequent elections are, still, the envy of the world! |
| Date | 12:01:17, August 13, 2005 CET | From | United Labour Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | I didn't envy you when I was in Tukarali. I'd support this. |
| Date | 01:14:01, August 15, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | Our frequent elections are probably not the envy of the world's politicians, but they are the envy of the citizens. The more opportunities the people have to kick us up the arse, the better. |
| Date | 06:15:43, August 17, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | we understand both the LibCom and the LevP position, and thus we do not want to extend it out to 6 yrs, but every two yrs as we have stated makes it difficult for the government to run smoothly and remain in the hands of the representatives. The quicker the elections are the more that is left to the unelected bureaucracy. |
| Date | 09:22:48, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | LevP members of government certainly haven't had any probems doing their jobs because of the frequent elections. |
| Date | 16:15:35, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | currently we are a fairly stable period where the cabinet does not change every election, or the balance of power. Thus current situation is not the normal. We are considering the time when the balance of power shifted every election. Radical new policies where adapted and just as they where getting off the ground a new election would come, a shift in balance, a new government policy which undoes the previous policy. This has occurred fairly often in Malivian history. |
| Date | 16:52:55, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | This is true, but we feel that political instability is preferable than leaving a coalition in power longer than the people want them to be in power. If a coalition cannot stay in power for more than two years, it tells us the people aren't satisfied with their performance, and the solution to that isn't to give citizens fewer opportunities to, as the LCP says, kick us up the arse. |
| Date | 06:31:44, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Super Socialist II Turbo Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | if the people still like the representative they will keep voting for them , i like this policy. |
| Date | 17:14:51, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Increase Effective Government |
| Message | unfortunately the short terms prevent any actual implementation of these policies. Take schooling for example since it has occurred in our past. If private schools where permitted under one government, and the next bans them, there will be a transition period as the public schools adapt to the new flow of students and the students adjust to the new schools. Or it may take time to build, organize these public schools. Plus there will be an increase in cost for the reorganization. All these factors can easily cause citizens to vote against the government because things didn't get better. However these are all short term blips and should not be used to judge a policy. This occurs in other policy changes as well. Two yrs is not enough to expect a policy's strength to show. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 20 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 77 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 3 |
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