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Bill: Elections every other year.
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Front
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: August 2150
Description[?]:
| OOC: Probably should have done this when I had 25% of the vote. Elections are fun! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The length of a legislative and executive term, in months. Should be between 24 and 72.
Old value:: 48
Current: 24
Proposed: 24
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:11:26, November 28, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Elections every other year. |
| Message | We will support this. however, it's sort of hard to achieve a 2/3 majority at this moment. |
| Date | 17:52:56, November 28, 2005 CET | From | Red Star Movement | To | Debating the Elections every other year. |
| Message | No. It kinda limits the power of the HoS, I think they should be given more time. Stick with 48. |
| Date | 10:16:34, November 29, 2005 CET | From | Keymon Ruling Party | To | Debating the Elections every other year. |
| Message | I would prefer 72 to be honest, stability is what we like, not constant change.... |
| Date | 03:16:53, November 30, 2005 CET | From | National Front | To | Debating the Elections every other year. |
| Message | OOC: This in no way limits the powers of the HoS. We have had only 1 HoS for the last forever. I thought Keymon was an experiment, you really want it to be the same as every other country? |
| Date | 17:33:53, November 30, 2005 CET | From | Red Star Movement | To | Debating the Elections every other year. |
| Message | No. We want it to have a reasonable and rewarding political system, not be cutting short successful parties by ending their power prematurely. |
| Date | 02:43:52, December 01, 2005 CET | From | National Front | To | Debating the Elections every other year. |
| Message | How would it be cutting short successful parties, if they are successful they will stay in power? This may sound spiteful but could you come up with a decent reason against? 24 would mean we wouldn't keep having early elections bills, and I'm not suggesting permanently 24, but just until the new parties get their visibility up. |
| Date | 12:32:33, December 03, 2005 CET | From | Keymon Ruling Party | To | Debating the Elections every other year. |
| Message | Well actually, increasing the frequency of elections is going to damage the ability of the new parties to get their visibility up, as there will be more 'campaign periods', whereby putting something to vote is futile, as it will imediately be bounced back to debate after the election.... Oh and here's a little trick. If you really want a bill to be voted on, or maybe even passed during such a 'campaign period', then tag it with a budget or income tax proposal. The reason being that these pass as soon as there are enough votes to pass them, rather than waiting until after eight months, etc.... If they don't get enough votes, then it still waits for the voting deadline, so if proposed during an election period it will still bounce as any other bill might.... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 152 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 147 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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