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Bill: Cabinet Proposal to Fill People Party's Vacancies
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democratic Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill presents the formation of a cabinet. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. Traditionally, parties in the proposal vote yes, others (the opposition) vote no. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in and all parties in the proposal have voted yes, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2534
Description[?]:
Although the next party to have HoS may very well decide to propose its own cabinet, we figure that the responsible thing to do is at least try to fill the current vacancies in the cabinet. As demanded by the proportional representation (PR) algorithm, the FIP and IP each gain a seat. Of course, the overall result is non-proportional, because we've been insuring that each party has a seat before applying the PR algorithm; in this case it was superfluous, because every party would have had a seat anyway. In order to reduce the number of non-proportional cabinets, in the future the DLP will be apportioning seats using the following procedure: (1) All seats will be apportioned by the Saint-Lagüe formula. (2) If this results in each party getting a seat, this will be the final apportionment. (3) Otherwise, each party will get one seat. (4) After each party gets one seat, the remaining seats will be apportioned by the Saint-Lagüe formula. (IOW Steps 3 and 4 are like what we've been doing.) We feel that this strikes a better balance between the desire to give each party a seat and the desire to be proportional. We mention this now -- at a time when we don't know how big the parties will be the next time we propose a cabinet -- so that no one can say we're being opportunistic. |
Proposals
Article 1
As per the Constitution, the President chairs the cabinet.
Article 2
The responsibilites of Science and Technology will be conducted by the Coalition for National Unity [CNU]
Article 3
The responsibilites of Food and Agriculture will be conducted by the Social Democratic Party
Article 4
The responsibilites of Environment and Tourism will be conducted by the Social Democratic Party
Article 5
The responsibilites of Trade and Industry will be conducted by the Federal Independent Party
Article 6
The responsibilites of Foreign Affairs will be conducted by the Federal Independent Party
Article 7
The responsibilites of Internal Affairs will be conducted by the Independent Party
Article 8
The responsibilites of Finance will be conducted by the Federal Independent Party
Article 9
The responsibilites of Defence will be conducted by the Coalition for National Unity [CNU]
Article 10
The responsibilites of Justice will be conducted by the Social Democratic Party
Article 11
The responsibilites of Infrastructure and Transport will be conducted by the Coalition for National Unity [CNU]
Article 12
The responsibilites of Health and Social Services will be conducted by the Independent Party
Article 13
The responsibilites of Education and Culture will be conducted by the Coalition for National Unity [CNU]
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 14:54:05, February 18, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party | To | Debating the Cabinet Proposal to Fill People Party's Vacancies |
Message | As a newly arrived party I've really no ground to stand on in the cabinet shortof purely bipartisan purposes. Though. I'd request this be postponed until at the least, the next election. |
Date | 15:08:35, February 18, 2008 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Cabinet Proposal to Fill People Party's Vacancies |
Message | As we proceeded to a vote rather quickly, we did not see the FRL's comments beforehand. But we'll reiterate that we imagine that the next HoS will probably want to propose her or his own cabinet very quickly and it's not even certain that this new proposal will have all the parties' support. We see this as only a temporary solution to the problem of vacancies. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 354 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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