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Bill: Government Agenda

Details

Submitted by[?]: Imperial Pluralism Party

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: June 2679

Description[?]:

With the recent discussion concerning the cabinet selection system, the AUP feels that another aspect of the Sekowan cabinet needs to be addressed. The current arrangement distributes offices, but it does not devolve any responsibility or functionality to them. Cabinet after cabinet, the ministers, given no responsibilities, produce no lasting improvements on administration and government.

The AUP thinks that every minister should be responsible for addressing current issues concerning his or her respective sphere of authority. For instance, the party that controls the Ministry of Justice should strive to elaborate the judicial system further through legislation, the party that holds the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport should introduce improvements or modifications in that particular area, etc. Such a policy will immensely increase the functionality and complexity of Sekowo's inner workings.

It is perhaps unrealistic to have every minister make a legislative proposal for each cabinet. Therefore, the AUP proposes the following specific policies:
(i) Any minister holding a given position for 36 contiguous months must offer a substantial piece of legislation to the national legislature.
(ii) The said piece of legislation must be concerned with the area of administration respective to the given ministry.
(iii) The legislation is expected to take into account past legislation and the current laws of the nation.
(iv) The Head of Government must present a set of executive government policies and goals within twelve months of coming to office.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date06:10:42, October 19, 2008 CET
From帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageWhile we agree that this is a good idea, when it comes down to it certain departments just don't tend to have alot to do.

Date07:33:48, October 19, 2008 CET
FromNormand Pluralist Party
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageWe think this is a great idea, but will be ignored if there are no repercussions to inaction.

Date18:44:43, October 19, 2008 CET
FromRevolutionary State Socialist Party
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageWe agree with the spirit of this, needs a bit of work, but its a good idea.

Date00:18:57, October 20, 2008 CET
FromConservative Party
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageSimilar to comments made already, it's a good idea in principle but AUP, how do you expect to force participating members to work on this? Could you give give examples for something like trade or tourism?

Date03:17:15, October 20, 2008 CET
From Imperial Pluralism Party
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageProposals concerning tourism, for instance, might involve advertisement programs to bring tourists to our more pleasant colonies, or the construction of a tourist center in the capital, or a joint program with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to build a new biking trail through the mountains and towns of Bizena.
Trade proposals might involve repairing and improving our major ports, establishing trade treaties with foreign nations, working with the Ministry of Defense to secure shipping lanes in unstable regions, or placing embargoes on hostile countries.

This system would be enforced by disallowing membership in the cabinet if a party does not create the required proposals. There would be flexibility, of course; a given party might be able to skip a certain number of required proposals per electoral cycle without reprimand.

Date05:27:59, October 20, 2008 CET
From帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageWe take issue with the use of the word 'colony' as we no longer have colonies, nor did we ever (protectorate is different).

As to the issues, we feel that this would work better if it were limited to areas of the cabinet that, well actually are of importance, like Defence, Foreign Affairs, HoG, Labour and such.

Date05:35:08, October 20, 2008 CET
From Imperial Pluralism Party
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageSorry about my misuse of terminology.
I think that all of these issues are important. We assume that the administration "just works." This assumption is fine for a normal country, especially one with more instability, but Sekowo is the most stable country in all of Terra. We have a real opportunity to flesh out the details of national administration.

Date06:45:32, October 20, 2008 CET
FromConservative Party
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageDSP, all ministries are of importance. We just choose to ignore them and assume that they just "work". I think AUP is right. We should try this out. But the penalties for not working is going to be difficult.

Perhaps, if the party would be left out of the next electoral cabinet after missing two consecutive 'proposals', although the consecutive will apply to consecutive terms to at least a ministry. So, say from 2000-2001, Party A had a ministry position, then didn't have enough popular vote for seats for the 2001-2002, but in the 2002-2003 Party A got a ministry position and failed to make a proposal, they should be penalized.

Date07:25:37, December 11, 2008 CET
FromConservative Party
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageOOC: How did this bill go into voting if AUP is inactive?

Date07:35:41, December 11, 2008 CET
From帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageOOC:
Moderation can force bills to vote.

Date00:18:09, December 12, 2008 CET
From帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
ToDebating the Government Agenda
MessageOOC:
Voting no just because I don't want to vote the same way as DP.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
    

Total Seats: 369

no
  

Total Seats: 165

abstain
 

Total Seats: 66


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