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Bill: Political Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Totalitarian Nationalist Party
Status[?]: passed
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: July 2040
Description[?]:
| This is a bill that will change the political system of Baltusia slightly. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: A pseudo-proportional algorithm that gives considerable advantage to smaller regions.
Current: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Proposed: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Political Reform Act |
| Message | We are in favor of Article 1, as it restores somewhat more of a direct democratic system. In addition, Article 2 helps ensure that the people of Baltusia have their voices heard on a regular basis. Therefore, we support this bill. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Totalitarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Political Reform Act |
| Message | Democratic Socialists, is this bill accepted by your party as well? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Populist Party | To | Debating the Political Reform Act |
| Message | Is there a way to give a small advantage to smaller regions? I mean larger regions already have an advantage when it comes to seats because they are, well, larger. I think there should be a way to allow the smaller regions to have a more fair voice in representation. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Totalitarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Political Reform Act |
| Message | There is no option for that. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Political Reform Act |
| Message | We have no problem with Article 1, but are concerned about Article 2. 24 months is the minimum amount of time possible between elections. Going to the electorate too often might simply turn them off politics. It also means that legislative terms only have time for three voting cycles (as bills are open for voting for 8 months). In a complex multi-party arrangement as we will have following the next election, some nations have seen it take longer than 10 months simply to form a cabinet, then leaving it only half its term to work in government. At this point, we are leaning to oppose, due to our doubts about the wisdom of shortening the terms. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Populist Party | To | Debating the Political Reform Act |
| Message | ok then we support this bill |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 64 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Alduria, Rildanor and Lourenne all have Canrilaise (French) cultures. |
| Random quote: "No one today can afford to be innocent, or indulge himself in ignorance of contemporary governments, politics and social orders. The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear: monstrous protection rackets. The 'free world' has become economically dependent on a fantastic system of stimulation of greed which cannot be fulfilled, sexual desire which cannot be satiated and hatred which has no outlet except against oneself, the persons one is supposed to love, or the revolutionary aspirations of pitiful, poverty-stricken marginal societies like Cuba or Vietnam. The conditions of the Cold War have turned all modern societies - communist included - into vicious distorters of man's true potential." - Gary Snyder |