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Bill: Imperial Chamber Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Classical Liberal 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: October 2636
Description[?]:
An act to increase the number of seats in parliament from 400 to 650. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 400
Current: 76
Proposed: 650
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 00:34:05, September 13, 2008 CET | From | Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Imperial Chamber Act |
Message | An growth of seats should be in order due to a growth in population and parties in parliament. |
Date | 04:24:12, September 13, 2008 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Imperial Chamber Act |
Message | Why? The seats are weighted proportionally to population. Id est, it shouldn't really matter how many seats are in the Chamber. The increase is just a burden on taxpayers. If anything, we should cut seats. |
Date | 09:28:33, September 13, 2008 CET | From | Hobrazian Extraordinary Gentlemen's Club | To | Debating the Imperial Chamber Act |
Message | OOc: even though it could provide more intrigue... I will stick to our ic position. :P IC: We believe our honourable colleague from Conservative party have not fully yet explored the situation with the population. We would abstain from calling them hypocrites, but have they paid attention to the demographic situation? The first time our party tried to introduce a bill, encouraging population growth (February 2629) there were 213 million citizens; In April 2633 (the last time we did so) the population was accounting to 218 millions; In April 2636 it accounts for 220 millions. So in 17 years the populations has grown by 7 millions. Would that be considered enough to.. increase the seats in the imperial chamber to 650? We believe the demographic situation, even though it is positive, should be even better. Additional to that, according to our legislative system, the method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature. Is based on a proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions, which means that the amount of seats a region "provides" to the imperial chamber changes accordingly to the difference in population. So, is it in reality just an attempt to change the amount of the seats in imperial chamber inspired by recent victory and lack of desire to form coalition with socialist parties? (ooc- i hope i didn't offend or anything, i didn't want nor didn't try to ) |
Date | 10:44:08, September 13, 2008 CET | From | Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Imperial Chamber Act |
Message | Response to Hobrazian Social Justice Party: OOC: In your top comment I agree with you IC: It would be hypocritic if we coalitioned with socialist parties, especially due to our economic policy and no matter whether coalitioning with socialist parties would be profitable in the circumstances, we must consider the Conservative Party Caucus first. Our apologies to the Right Honourable Gentlemen of the Hobrazian Social Justice Party if this has offended them. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes | Total Seats: 72 | ||||||
no |
Total Seats: 301 | ||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 27 |
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