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Bill: Call for early elections, February 3641
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beluzia First Coalition
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill requests an early election. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline. Elections will be held immediately if the bill passes.
Voting deadline: October 3641
Description[?]:
| We, the Beluzia First Coalition, call for early elections as soon as we can reach a consensus. |
Proposals
Article 1
Arrange early elections as soon as this bill passes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:14:06, March 25, 2014 CET | From | New Beluzian Movement | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | We will see how forming a cabinet goes first. If we fail, we'll support new elections. |
| Date | 13:58:31, March 25, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | The party of obstructionism returns. They blocked every call for early elections in the last Assembly, even when there was a clear and present need, until 2 years in. Now they have voted against cabinet proposals - even ones that include them - without proposing anything of their own. We have a cabinet now. This call is redundant: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=404753 |
| Date | 20:55:32, March 25, 2014 CET | From | Beluzia First Coalition | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | Following recent events there are almost 160 constituencies that are currently unrepresented in this chamber. We need fresh elections and representation for all Beluzians. |
| Date | 22:07:59, March 25, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | We recognise that reasoning as valid. However the fact that 160 consituencies are unrepresented is as a direct result of the actions of the recently impeached Liberal Democrat and Liberal Socialist Parties. Beluzians who voted for these parties at the last election did so in the full knowledge that they were voting for abstentionists. How indeed will the people of Beluzia tell the difference between 160 empty seats and the former Assembly members of the do-nothing Liberal parties? Besides which, we now finally have a government which has a majority - in both the current 592 AND the former 750 Assemblies. To risk that by holding the third set of elections in three years would be madness. |
| Date | 00:24:42, March 26, 2014 CET | From | Beluzia First Coalition | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | The Syndicalists are just putting their party's own interests - being in government - before the interests of the people. The people in those 160 constituencies need representation, it's not their fault that the parties that they voted for were wound-up by their leadership. |
| Date | 01:10:17, March 26, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | Beluzia First Coalition weren't so concerned with the representation of the disenfranchised a few years ago, when there were 115 empty seats: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=404609 Our being in government IS in the people's interests. We would never have organised as a party or stood in the elections if we didn't believe in that. Further, a stable majoritarian coalition government is also in the people's interests after years of legislative turmoil. Already major new legislation is being passed. Nothing is to be gained from dragging people back to the polling stations again. Likewise we suspect that this call for early elections equally stems from partisan self-interest. Does the Beluzia First Coalition deny that they look hungrily towards the vacated seats in the hope of new gains? Elections will occur in October 3644. Not before. |
| Date | 01:20:12, March 26, 2014 CET | From | New Beluzian Movement | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | We are split, but will not vote yet. We agree with the spirit of the Beluzia First Coalition. The Rot within parliament is slowed through public scrutiny. To fully expose the foetid disease within requires full public acknowledgement, only actionable through representation. The Liberal corruption was not fully known by those who voted for them at the time, and the collapse has cut some necrosis free, leaving areas raw and needing mending. However, we are not here to reinvigorate the masses, nor build on the feeble ideas of representation. We arose for our passion for our art, the great motion of the corpse of government forcing bills, actions to occur. We are anti stagnation. Currently, we are stirring the pot. We will consider elections in time, if we reach a block, or mediocrity begins to sting our movement. |
| Date | 01:38:02, March 26, 2014 CET | From | Beluzia First Coalition | To | Debating the Call for early elections, February 3641 |
| Message | There's no guarantee that the Beluzia First Coalition will win seats should we have elections. In fact, if our party is acting so abhorrently - as the Syndicalists portray - then it is possible we will lose seats. Regardless, there are millions of people without representation right now and that isn't democratic or normal for a modern liberal democracy. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 181 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 277 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 134 |
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