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Bill: Local Government (Amendment) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM)
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: September 2896
Description[?]:
| This Act will amend the Local Government Act 2888 thus: I. Article IV shall be deleted. II. Article VII shall be deleted. III. Points 5 and 6 of Schedule 2 shall be deleted. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:04:15, February 16, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Local Government (Amendment) Act |
| Message | Rt Hon Duchess Thompson MP: Madam Speaker, can I first of all welcome you to the chair. Can I pay tribute to the outgoing Speaker, and wish him well in his retirement. I personally, Madam Speaker, have been long awaiting the arrival of another powerful woman to the political scene, and I am delighted that you should be in the Chair. Madam Speaker, it is something of an anachronism that when mayors are directly elected they can simply be removed through a council vote. Madam Speaker, that is why we choose to abolish this article from the LGA. Councils will still be required to vote on all mayoral measures, and their opposition would be demonstrated in that way. Should this be constant, then a further election is almost likely to be needed. Madam Speaker, the councils have no mandate to remove the mayor when he has been directly elected. Madam Speaker, I also propose in this amendment that all non-democratic seats in local government be abolished. This is what the people are crying out for. |
| Date | 21:35:17, February 16, 2010 CET | From | House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Local Government (Amendment) Act |
| Message | Hon. Amy Glenting, Btss. Madam Speaker, this is a conflation of two wholly separate issues. Firstly, mayoral removals are enshrined in the LGA as a check on the otherwise-rampant power of mayors-- some council constitutions even allow mayors to legislate. Mayors, as popularly-elected figures, wield charismatic authority against the rule of law, often to the determent of order and stability. The abolition of the hereditary and appointed seats is a different issue altogether, Madam Speaker. Hereditary and appointed seats serve as checks on the caprice of the moment of election. Most appointed seats are for terms in excess of fifteen years, and many are for life. In Falristan, many of the hereditary seats are held by Mashacara chiefs, who are given a vote in government that they would otherwise be unable to attain, the gravity of their offices preventing them from doing anything as crass as running for election. Furthermore, The idea that "appointed" seats are somehow undemocratic is a false one; they are no more undemocratic than appointed political officers are. Is the Earl Marshal undemocratic, since he is appointed for life? Madam Speaker, we believe that the current system is wise indeed. The wide berth afforded to local councils in establishing their own constitutional systems is the sine qua non of the vitality of our local government system. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 229 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 89 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 73 |
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