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Bill: Ending Parliamentary Immunity
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democratic Party
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: June 3422
Description[?]:
| Everyone should be held to a basic standard for their actions, but members of the Assembly are not. This bill will end parliamentary immunity. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Parliamentary privilege.
Old value:: Members of the legislature are exempted from any civil or criminal liability for their speech or actions, but this immunity can be overruled by a vote in the nation's legislative body.
Current: Members of the legislature are not exempt from any civil or criminal liability for their speech or actions during their term of office.
Proposed: Members of the legislature are not exempt from any civil or criminal liability for their speech or actions during their term of office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:48:59, January 05, 2013 CET | From |  Progressive-Labour Party | To | Debating the Ending Parliamentary Immunity |
| Message | I can not vote for this. I do believe legislators should not be exempt from civil or criminal liabilities of their actions but it is imperative we maintain an absolute freedom of speech and the independence of the legislative body from other branches of government. If this law were to pass, what would prevent the President from having a member of the legislative body arrested for being critical of him? If the SDP can find an alternative where members of the legislative body are held accountable for criminal actions but not speech, I will vote for said bill but until then, I urge the members of General Assembly to vote no. |
| Date | 21:25:13, January 05, 2013 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Ending Parliamentary Immunity |
| Message | But this doesn't restrict free speech. This would institute criminal liability for speech that is already illegal. Legislators would have the same standard applied to them as is applied to everyone else. If there's hate speech that would be illegal coming out of the mouth of a citizen, it should be illegal coming out of the mouth of a legislator as well. It doesn't let any special restrictions on speech or actions apply. It just removes the double standard. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 342 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 109 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 49 |
| Random fact: Real-life organisations should not be referenced in Particracy, unless they are simple and generic (eg. "National Organisation for Women" is allowed). |
| Random quote: "If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realization that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented." - Tony Benn |