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Bill: Legislature Resizing Bill (2520)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist 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: May 2521
Description[?]:
| We propose to reduce the size of the Folkstamma slightly for the following reasons: 1. This cuts down on government expense, freeing funds up to lower taxes or increase services. 2. 600 is a nice, even number. Such a number facilitates calculations for 50% votes (300) or 2/3 votes (400). It is still a sizeable number, ensuring plenty of representation (I have never seen a party with less than 10 seats before, so there shouldn't be any real disenfranchisement as a result of this). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 750
Current: 450
Proposed: 600
Article 2
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 80,000,000 SEK | 5,000,000 SEK | 4,500,000 SEK |
| Foreign Affairs | 500,000,000 SEK | 15,000,000,000 SEK | 15,000,000,000 SEK |
| Internal Affairs | 550,000,000 SEK | 5,000,000,000 SEK | 5,000,000,000 SEK |
| Finance | 600,000,000 SEK | 3,900,000,000 SEK | 3,900,000,000 SEK |
| Defence | 9,900,000,000 SEK | 30,000,000,000 SEK | 30,000,000,000 SEK |
| Justice | 5,000,000,000 SEK | 15,000,000,000 SEK | 15,000,000,000 SEK |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 15,000,000,000 SEK | 20,000,000,000 SEK | 20,000,000,000 SEK |
| Health and Social Services | 25,000,000,000 SEK | 32,000,000,000 SEK | 32,000,000,000 SEK |
| Education and Culture | 12,000,000,000 SEK | 30,000,000,000 SEK | 30,000,000,000 SEK |
| Science and Technology | 12,000,000,000 SEK | 20,000,000,000 SEK | 20,000,000,000 SEK |
| Food and Agriculture | 12,000,000,000 SEK | 19,000,000,000 SEK | 19,000,000,000 SEK |
| Environment and Tourism | 15,000,000,000 SEK | 15,000,000,000 SEK | 15,000,000,000 SEK |
| Trade and Industry | 11,000,000,000 SEK | 5,000,000,000 SEK | 5,000,000,000 SEK |
| Total | 118,630,000,000 SEK | 209,905,000,000 SEK | 209,904,500,000 SEK |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:45:48, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | We oppose thie affront to Democracy. Further more we oppose the further numberification of the budget. |
| Date | 18:59:51, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | This is not an affront to democracy. 600 representatives is still a large number, 750 is huge, have you noticed how hard it is to make yourself heard in the Folkstamma? I have. Cutting from 750 to 600 saves the poor of Sekowo a fifth of the cost of government. |
| Date | 22:38:13, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | Any move to shrink the number of seats below 700 is an affront to Democracy to us. |
| Date | 02:40:31, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | Save the people money --> we support! |
| Date | 03:08:33, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | Its only 500k.... |
| Date | 03:51:53, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | How is this an affront to democracy? This still allows division of popular vote to the sixth of a percent. |
| Date | 04:40:18, January 23, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | Because it reduces the number of representatives. More Representatives=More Democratic. |
| Date | 05:03:10, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | You're talking about a tiny fraction of 1%. Currently, the elections are accurate to 0.13% After this bill, elections will be accurate to 0.16% That's a difference of less than 1/20 of a percent. Hardly less democratic, considering that we only have 8 parties, and the smallest, when they get any votes, always get at least 3% of the vote. |
| Date | 05:15:19, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | Even if a party only had 10 seats, this would only reduce accuracy by 1/50 of their representation; hardly likely to have a significant negative democratic impact. |
| Date | 06:06:27, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Legislature Resizing Bill (2520) |
| Message | Why do the PUA oppose this? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 256 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 478 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
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