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Bill: National Legislature Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Progressive 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: April 2476
Description[?]:
| An Act to adjust the numbers of seats in the national legislature. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 717
Current: 180
Proposed: 299
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:22:44, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Party | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | There's no need for 717 seats, especially with the increasingly federalist system and the Senate. 100 would be far more appropiate. |
| Date | 21:23:11, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Party | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | OOC: Plus there's the advantage I'll be able to do constituency maps, which are cool. :P |
| Date | 21:28:38, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Kirlawan Popular Front | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | Can't you do them for the Senate? That is elected on FTFP, after all.... |
| Date | 21:34:40, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Kirlawan Popular Front | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | You can even do them for the Provincial Assemblies if you want to, as they are on FPTP (spelt it right this time) too. |
| Date | 21:43:29, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Party | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | Right. I still think that we should thin down the lower house, mind. |
| Date | 21:49:45, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Evangelist Party | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | shouldn't the lower house have more members than the upper house? |
| Date | 22:12:56, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Kirlawan Popular Front | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | Well, that makes sense. We think about 500 is a good number. 501? You'd need 251 for a majority, and 334 to get a constitutional change through. |
| Date | 22:18:56, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Kirlawan Popular Front | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | Well, that makes sense. We think about 500 is a good number. 501? You'd need 251 for a majority, and 334 to get a constitutional change through. |
| Date | 22:39:45, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Party | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | 501 seems quite good, yes. How about 299? 150 for a majority, 200 for any changes. Plus it means we have less people per representative in the provincial assemblies. |
| Date | 23:05:07, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Kirlawan Popular Front | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | OOC: We can, of course, vary the number of seats in each province or in the Senate. I just used 100 as it's easier to plug into my Excel spreadsheet. But it's adaptable to any number of seats really. |
| Date | 01:11:30, October 23, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Party | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | OOC: Of course, but I think 100 is best anyway. :P. |
| Date | 12:08:27, October 23, 2007 CET | From |  Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | Having fought tooth-and-nail to prevent the 717-member body, we will also fight tooth-and-nail to keep it =) |
| Date | 21:42:08, October 24, 2007 CET | From | Kirlawan Popular Front | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | We will support this, but we will not agree to a snap election simply because the number of seats is going to change. |
| Date | 00:17:52, October 26, 2007 CET | From | Anti Egalitarian Alliance | To | Debating the National Legislature Act |
| Message | Way too small. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 365 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 201 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 151 |
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