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Bill: Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections!
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberale Partij (L)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill requests an early election. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline. Elections will be held immediately if the bill passes.
Voting deadline: October 2601
Description[?]:
| We, the Athlorcaean Liberal Party (L), call for early elections as soon as we can reach a consensus. |
Proposals
Article 1
Arrange early elections as soon as this bill passes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:50:49, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | Yay democracy! |
| Date | 12:53:29, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Hutori Conservative Party | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | Whilst of course early elections are certainly enjoyable, we ask that the Assembly waits at least nine months in order to allow our voice to be heard by the electorate. There are currently three new interesting political parties in early stages of development, and giving them more time to turn into major political parties is in the interests of the Assembly and the electorate. Furthermore there are various Bills currently in the voting stages and it would be a waste of time to put them back to the debating stages in order to have unnecessary early elections. |
| Date | 12:59:37, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | The Athlorcaean Liberal Party does not agree with that assessment. Because the political landscape has grown so much more diverse, we'd like the electorate to give a ruling whether the ALP should be allowed to continue to govern. Most of our agenda has been put to vote at this point, anyway. Also: welcome to Hutori. |
| Date | 14:40:00, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Groene ArbeidersPartij | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | We aren't ready for this. |
| Date | 21:25:24, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Sociale Democratische Partij | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | This was an unfair and twisted decision. Our party had bills lined up and the LIberals could not wait for a year? |
| Date | 21:27:46, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | We decided it would be in the best interest of the country to have a vote now. The greens had decided that they would no longer endorse us, so a ruling on who was to govern was only democratic. Besides, the United Socialist Party of Athlorcaea has seats now whereas previously they had none. At the next election they will probably get even more seats, if their policies are good. |
| Date | 21:28:53, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Sociale Democratische Partij | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | I am not and still and not sensing any good intentions out of this call made just by the Liberal Government. |
| Date | 21:35:17, July 03, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 2601: Snap elections! |
| Message | Well, I'll admit that we don't call elections based on the basis giving *other* parties as many seats as possible. We call elections on the basis of sound political and democratic arguments. In this case, the arguments -were- sound: we've reformed the budget, installed some new pro-business policies, increased investment in infrastructure, and (importantly) pushed through constitutional reform on the issue of voting. When the greens withdrew support for our campaign (a decision we respect) it made sense to call new elections. Four years from now, there are going to be new elections. And as always, we'll happily cooperate with every party on issues of mutual interest. We expect to be defending the civil rights of our people in this term together with the socialists. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 97 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 30 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 48 |
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