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Bill: DSP.152.2565
Details
Submitted by[?]: 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
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: April 2566
Description[?]:
| We believe that the number of seats needs to be increased, not only because it is more democratic in general, but because we have seen population increases. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 600
Current: 450
Proposed: 700
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:16:05, April 23, 2008 CET | From |  Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the DSP.152.2565 |
| Message | The difference it makes, as we have shown and mentioned several times, is statistically insignificant (it amounted to about 1/6 of a seat or something). But it would increase expenses significantly. |
| Date | 23:32:30, April 23, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the DSP.152.2565 |
| Message | It increases the amount of Senators (or whatever we're gonna call them) by 100 individuals, that is hardly insignificant. |
| Date | 07:07:00, April 24, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the DSP.152.2565 |
| Message | Yes, hardly insignificant per expenses. But statistically insignifcant in terms of representation. When I first proposed that the Folkstmma be resized from 750 to 600, I presented this information: [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. 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.] The raise from 600 to 700 would be even smaller than that 1/20 of 1 percent. Like I said, statistically insignificant. |
| Date | 07:07:55, April 24, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the DSP.152.2565 |
| Message | (And hardly worth a 17% increase in operating costs) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 280 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 320 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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