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Bill: Selection of Government Employees Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2107
Description[?]:
| Being wary that we should take measures to control our image in the public and international eye this act encourages recruiters for front-line government services to ensure they select personnel who truly represent the nation for roles where the staff will represent the government or nation overtly. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Proposed: The government discriminates against minorities in its hiring.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:55:50, September 06, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | you're kidding, right? because it's getting harder and harder to take you seriously after all these bullshit bills. |
| Date | 05:53:30, September 06, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | For a nation as multicultural as ours, with religious plurality, equal rights for all regardless of gender, age or sexuality, it is vital that we don't discriminate against minorities, as they truly represent our nation. |
| Date | 13:31:22, September 06, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | Never. Everyone has the right to serve our glorious nation. |
| Date | 23:02:18, September 06, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | 'with religious plurality, equal rights for all regardless of gender, age or sexuality' I'm not sure this is a truly reflective description of our current statute books now is it? |
| Date | 03:10:28, September 07, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | well, thanks to you, equal rights are gone, but it's the thought that counts... at least until the voters get tired of your idiocy and put us back in power. |
| Date | 20:26:29, September 07, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | I'm the 4th most popular party in the world! :D |
| Date | 02:17:09, September 08, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | and that is really, really sad... notice, however that less than half of the population of the nation even voted in the last election. |
| Date | 22:48:19, September 08, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Selection of Government Employees Act |
| Message | And the ones that did overwhelmingly voted for me. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 150 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 448 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 2 |
| Random fact: Bill descriptions must be in English, or at least include a full English translation. Bill titles may appear in a language that is appropriate to the nation and are not required to be translated into English. |
| Random quote: "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." - Nicholas Chamfort |