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Bill: Parliamentary Reform Act #1 of 2566 - Bi-cameral parliament
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Party of Dorvik
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2567
Description[?]:
| There needs to be a bi-cameral parliament in order to have people & their respectful districts better represented in national decision-making. The purpose of the Senate (upper house) will be the following: 1. Act as an forum for open debate & discussion where all areas of society and its problems can be covered in addition to giving recommendations for the lower house. 2. Safeguard for the Constitution: all constitutional changes must be approved by 2/3 supermajority in the Senate. In practice, a constitutional bill will not be taken to the voting phase of the lower house if it's not certain that the bill has the adequate support in the Senate. 3. Act as an advisor for the president in national decision-making. 4. Supervise president's actions to foster transparency and accountability. The senate has the power to force a president to resign (impeach) with 2/3 supermajority if there's a grounded cause such as treason, embezzlement, election fraud, incapability of managing presidential duties or degrading the dignity of the presidential office. 5. Hold hearings about important issues which have significance from political or social point-of-view. Each district will elect 20 senators for the Senate during parliamentary elections. The biggest party in a district gets 6 seats, second one 5 seats, third one 4 seats and fourth one 3 seats to the Senate. Remaining 10 seats will be granted in the following way: biggest party in the nation gets 4 seats, second one 3 seats, third one 2 seats and fourth one 1 seat. Senators vote for Speaker of the Senate, usually along government-opposition axis. Once elected by a majority, Speaker of the Senate continues in his task until a new vote is being called. OOC: According to April 2566 election results the Senate seats would be allocated accordingly: IP: 28 Senators TNP: 25 Senators CPD: 23 Senators PP: 21 Senators PPA: 3 Senators Not only the seat formula is easy to calculate but it also reflects the real support for parties with a touch of randomizing (like seen in the example: the TNP has two more senators than the Centre Party which got more seats into the Directorate and more votes nationally). And what comes to the impeachment of a president: it's very hard to acquire the needed 2/3 majority to oust the president as it would always need the support of three major parties: not even a two-party government with optimal 34 and 28 senate seats, 62 senators in total, could impeach the president as it would take 67 senators to do so. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:36:53, April 25, 2008 CET | From |  Democratic Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Parliamentary Reform Act #1 of 2566 - Bi-cameral parliament |
| Message | I shall soon take this to vote but if you have some comments you want to make, now is the time. |
| Date | 00:17:17, April 26, 2008 CET | From | Technocratic Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Parliamentary Reform Act #1 of 2566 - Bi-cameral parliament |
| Message | Sounds good. Let's go for it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 499 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." - John Dalberg-Acton |