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Bill: Assembly Size (Reduction) 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: November 2563
Description[?]:
| An Act to reduce the size of the Assembly. |
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: 599
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:51:41, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Party | To | Debating the Assembly Size (Reduction) Act |
| Message | We understand that a major seat reduction such as that proposed by the LPP several years ago lacks the support to pass. We maintain the necessity for the eventual reduction below this level, but we would ask the house to support this as a necessary step. |
| Date | 22:00:44, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Kirlawan People's Justice Party | To | Debating the Assembly Size (Reduction) Act |
| Message | Very strongly opposed. There's nothing magical about the number 717, but: it's nice that it's near the high end of the range, to allow finer gradations in support to be shown (ever viewed pictures on the web with a monitor that shows only 256 colors, or worse 16 colors?) ... it's an odd number to prevent ties (although so is 599, so this particular point doesn't matter) ... it's a little less depressing for a relatively small party like ours to see that we hold 74 seats, instead of being knocked back to a lower number as this proposal would cause; even though the actual percentage of the legislature would physically be the same, it would just feel smaller ... Kirlawa is one of the most populous countries, so it makes sense that we have a larger legislature than most others -- Lourenne has 2/5 of our population and currently 303 seats; Talmoria, 2/5 of our population and currently 500 seats; Valruzia, 3/4 of our population and currently 450 seats; Istalia, 3/4 of our population and currently 599 seats; Sekowo, 3/4 of our population and currently 600 seats; our neighbors Dorvik, 3/4 of our population and currently 499 seats; our other neighbors Aloria, 3/4 of our population and currently 750 seats. Why should the people of these countries be better-represented than ours? ... and, most importantly, we've had it at 717 for over a century now, and maintaining it at this figure allows current and future party sizes to continue to be very easily compared with past ones, by simply directly comparing the number of seats, instead of needing to each and every time either manually perform the arithmetic or look it up in each party's table of percentages. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 74 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 509 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 134 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order." - Idi Amin |