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Bill: Number of Members of Parliament Act, September 3298
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green Democrats (GD)
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 3299
Description[?]:
| The GDV proposes that the number of Members of Parliament be reduced from 750 to 600. This would equate to one MP per 50,000 people rather than current one MP per 40,000 people. The GDV feels that 750 MPs is very excessive for a population of 30,000,000 people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 750
Current: 122
Proposed: 600
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:22:11, May 04, 2012 CET | From | Vorona Independence Party (VIP) | To | Debating the Number of Members of Parliament Act, September 3298 |
| Message | The Vorona Independence Party agrees woth the GDV about reducing the number of members in Parliament. |
| Date | 18:26:29, May 04, 2012 CET | From | Social Liberal Party of Vorona (SLP) | To | Debating the Number of Members of Parliament Act, September 3298 |
| Message | How is this excessive? It better reflects the popular support of each party in the form of their number of seats in Parliament |
| Date | 19:18:35, May 04, 2012 CET | From | Green Democrats (GD) | To | Debating the Number of Members of Parliament Act, September 3298 |
| Message | But each party will still have the same proportional amount of seats no matter how many seats are in the parliament. Reducing the number of seats is not going to cause certain parties to lose support |
| Date | 13:01:09, May 05, 2012 CET | From | Social Liberal Party of Vorona (SLP) | To | Debating the Number of Members of Parliament Act, September 3298 |
| Message | One MP per 40,000 is not excessive, it's giving the people appropriate attention and representation. |
| Date | 15:53:53, May 05, 2012 CET | From | Green Democrats (GD) | To | Debating the Number of Members of Parliament Act, September 3298 |
| Message | The UK manages with approximately 1 MP per 100,000 people |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 399 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 351 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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