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Bill: gouvernment employees
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sociaal-Democratische Partij
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 3327
Description[?]:
| It's not fair that gouvernment employees aren't independent. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Appointments and requirements for government employees.
Old value:: Government employees are selected and appointed in a political way.
Current: Government employees are selected and appointed in a political way.
Proposed: All government employees have to promise political independence.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:27:01, June 29, 2012 CET | From |   Trzykrnadrkjogadsrlji Bltmojad | To | Debating the gouvernment employees |
| Message | The majority of the Vanukuian citizens prefer that government employees are part of the parties within the government. So this law was entirely fair, it was enacted by us on behalf of democracy, the people's choice. Parliamentary Speaker of the Imperial Union, Godfried van Prinsenaard, KR |
| Date | 13:49:30, June 29, 2012 CET | From | Internationale Federatie voor Socialisme | To | Debating the gouvernment employees |
| Message | This issue was debated during the campaign, and democracy gave a majority of the seats in the Assembly to parties which openly support the independence of government employees. Whatever the will of our citizens may have been in the past, it is what it is. Dr. Hildergard Zechner, Expert on Internal Affairs for the IFS |
| Date | 22:33:00, June 29, 2012 CET | From | Trzykrnadrkjogadsrlji Bltmojad | To | Debating the gouvernment employees |
| Message | Neither of those parties ever expressed themselves about this matter, the people barely know what they vote for with these pseudo-communists. Parliamentary Speaker of the Imperial Union Godfried van Prinsenaard, KR |
| Date | 00:16:26, June 30, 2012 CET | From | Internationale Federatie voor Socialisme | To | Debating the gouvernment employees |
| Message | May I direct your attention to the Reforming State Structure Act which was launched before the elections and offered a position on this issue. Nicolai Manfredi, Spokesman for the IFS |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 181 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 114 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics |