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Bill: Governmental Accountability Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Keymon
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: November 3776
Description[?]:
| A proposal to hold government officials accountable for crimes committed while in office. |
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 related or unrelated with the performance of their duties during their term of office.
Current: 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.
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 | 20:53:58, December 18, 2014 CET | From |  Keymon New Frontier Party | To | Debating the Governmental Accountability Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, we oppose this bill as holding the government accountable is done through elections and the popular will, not the courts. Max von Sternenburg MGA* KNFP Floor Leader *OOC: I figured this would be the title for a member of the Grand Assembly. |
| Date | 12:36:58, December 20, 2014 CET | From | Liberal Party of Keymon | To | Debating the Governmental Accountability Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, It almost seems as if the honorable gentlemen from the KNFP is scared of governmental accountability. This is a common sense resolution that will prevent abuse of power. I would remind everyone in this chamber that they are not above the law and that they are merely servants of the public will. If any of us were to break that special bond of trust that exists between representative and constituent by breaking the law, I would hope that they would be dealt with fairly but justly, and that is precisely what is under debate here. James Whistler MGA Liberal Floor Leader |
| Date | 12:49:37, December 20, 2014 CET | From | Keymon New Frontier Party | To | Debating the Governmental Accountability Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, if opposing the danger of a politicized justice system that could be abused by opponents to hamper effective government functioning by smothering Ministers with lawsuits means being scared of government accountability, then we ask the Liberals why they didn't introduce this policy when they had unlimited power during the last tenure. Is it just me or is there thus some mild hypocrisy in the honorable gentleman's statement? Max von Sternenburg MGA KNFP Floor Leader |
| Date | 14:06:30, December 20, 2014 CET | From | Liberal Party of Keymon | To | Debating the Governmental Accountability Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Any hypocrisy or attempt to politicize this proposal must be a product of the honorable gentleman's imagination. "Smothering Ministers with lawsuits" is not what this bill is about. Attacking members of the current government is about. I can tell you what it is about, and that is making sure that nobody is above the law, myself and my members included. As for your question, I do not intend to be held responsible for everything that my predecessor as Party Leader did or did not do, and I can promise that, if this legislation is not passed, our policy will not change and we will introduce it in the case of a Liberal majority government. James Whistler MGA Liberal Floor Leader |
| Date | 20:33:42, December 21, 2014 CET | From | Imperial National Party | To | Debating the Governmental Accountability Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, As Mr. Sternenburg has pointed out we feel this power could be greatly abused by political opponents we and don't see how such a change could positively impact us all. We will have to vote no. Ernst Von Lindenburg Leader of Assembly Members of the INP |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 112 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 118 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real-life quotations may be used in Particracy, but the real-life speaker or author should always be referenced in an OOC (out-of-character) note alongside the quotation. |
| Random quote: "The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does, if that catch-phrase has any meaning, but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is justice." - Ayn Rand |