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Bill: Call for early elections, November 2096
Details
Submitted by[?]: Lodamun Centre-Left Coalition
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill requests an early election. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline. Elections will be held immediately if the bill passes.
Voting deadline: January 2098
Description[?]:
| The current Cabinet does not see even half the eight parties in the nation involved. the PCL call for early elections to form a new government. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:24:01, August 17, 2005 CET |
From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | I can offer another cabinet proposal if a consensus can be reached. However, the left is hardly one to complain, as the three parties currently in the cabinet have been excluded for quite some time.
Zaphod Beeblebrox |
| Date | 18:26:18, August 17, 2005 CET |
From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | I know that you are not exactly delighted with our new name, I would be willing to support a name change in exchange for an early election. |
| Date | 00:15:28, August 18, 2005 CET |
From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | just as in the last term, we are more than prepared to discuss compromises in terminology for the country and its Citizens Assembly. That "etc" is a bit ominous though. Did you want a constitutional amendment that all the head of state must have three arms? All days of the week are to be renamed Tuesday? Kregon to be converted into the world's largest shopping mall? The right for every citizen to bear nuclear arms? |
| Date | 01:43:29, August 18, 2005 CET |
From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | "Etc."
Will depend on the input from the other parties currently in the majority. Early elections present us with nothing to gain but everything to lose, there will be some compensation for this in the form of amendments and other things that are currently unavailable to us.
All days of the week shall retain their current names, Kregon will be permitted to use its land however it wishes, Zaphod will not require other candidates to obtain another arm, and nuclear arms shall be retained by the national government alone. |
| Date | 12:42:14, August 18, 2005 CET |
From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | I will only vote for new elections when I see something concrete from the people who want the elections (i.e. the name changed back to Republic, the govering body returned to a Parliament). Also I want it in writing that the parties will never ever change the names of those bodies again. Until that occurs, I refuse to support these new elections. |
| Date | 16:02:29, August 18, 2005 CET |
From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | I require a "proportional algorithm" as well. So that no region has citizens that count more than another region.
""Along with a proportional representation of all citizens" This was possible until the ICA got repealed."
What I meant was the algorithm. Since the ICA's repeal, I have offered several mixed cabinets while in power. Which is more than I can say for the left. |
| Date | 17:21:51, August 18, 2005 CET |
From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | One possible compromise on the naem is "federal republic." No one wants "independent republic." I've suggested this compromise several times, without ever getting a response. If the answer is No, then someone please say so and i will stop suggesting it. Another possible compromise is Federation. All sorts of comrpmises are possible, but a simple reversion to the old names is not going to happen. We can try to work together to come up with anmes everyone can live with, or we can keep sniping at each other.
The Greens would go along with a change in the election system too. However, if the ASP is vetoing early elections ("let them sweat") then it's probably a moot point. |
| Date | 17:41:16, August 18, 2005 CET |
From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | We're fine with Federal Republic, willing to but not happy with changing the Citizens Assembly and not willing to change the election system. |
| Date | 02:30:27, August 19, 2005 CET |
From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Call for early elections, November 2096 | | Message | We'd like an explanation from ASP and CUP as to why they are prepared to continue their coalition with the criminals in TiC.
Given the crooked behaviour of TiC members isn't it time for the people to decide whether they want these felons in government? |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 211 |
| no | Total Seats: 239 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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