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Bill: Campaign Financing Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kirlawan Social Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: April 3753
Description[?]:
| PREAMBLE - ACKNOWLEDGING the existence of numerous minorities groups, within their rights to assemble and fight for freedom and recognition, REALISING these minorities, sometimes, assemble or join political parties, in order to defend their interests throughout society, SEEING the insufficient coverage or interest in preserving the rights of these groups, that fail to achieve public awareness to their cause, REMEMBERING that it is the government duty to preserve and foment equality and freedom of expression, WE, the KSP, propose the following changes in legislation: |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Public financing of political campaigns
Old value:: Campaigns are never publicly financed.
Current: All candidates receive public funds, and can still accept donations.
Proposed: Candidates receive public funds unless they have raised more than a certain amount of money.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:33:22, November 02, 2014 CET | From | Centre Party of Kirlawa | To | Debating the Campaign Financing Bill |
| Message | By public funding are we to assume it is donated by members of the public? If so we will happily back this bill. |
| Date | 16:20:44, November 02, 2014 CET | From | Kirlawan Social Party | To | Debating the Campaign Financing Bill |
| Message | Actually, it means that the government will fund political campaigns. For instance, it would be established a threshold of donations. If the party did not achieve that threshold, the government would cover it and donate to that party. Either that or the government would donate a certain ammount of money to all campaigns, which is far more egalitarian. |
| Date | 16:27:47, November 02, 2014 CET | From | Centre Party of Kirlawa | To | Debating the Campaign Financing Bill |
| Message | We shall be voting against that bill in this case. A parties donation shows how popular it is or how much grassroots support it has. A party trailing at 1% shouldn't be given funding by the government nor should a party at 30% of the vote. |
| Date | 16:35:29, November 02, 2014 CET | From | Kirlawan Social Party | To | Debating the Campaign Financing Bill |
| Message | We believe that it is necessary, as there are certain agendas that go against main donors interests (corporations, religious institutions, banks) and thus lack investment. This bill offers a way to all interests to be represented, at the expenses of the State. It would promote electoral equality and give the chance to all plataforms and agendas to be displayed. Obviously, it would still have private funding, so more popular agendas would still persevere as major (the 30% of the vote party). However, the 1% of the vote party would have the chance to raise awareness to its causes and compete in a fairer election. Let's also remember how big donors financed parties and/or the party in charge of the government have huge advantages in the electoral campaign, making the status quo maintenance easy. This bill is a step to deconstructing that and promoting more democratic elections. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 312 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 405 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Once approved, players should copy Cultural Protocols into a bill in the debate section of their nation page, under the title of "OOC: Cultural Protocols". This bill should include links to the passed Cultural Protocol bill and the Moderation approval. |
| Random quote: "I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it." - Niccolo Machiavelli |