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Bill: President Questions Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal National Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 3781
Description[?]:
| (This bill will provide a forum for the opposition parties to address questions to the President and/or other Ministers of State regarding government policy so that they can hold the government accountable. PMQs is a constitutional convention, and is governed by the following rules: - The largest party in opposition may ask six questions every year. The second largest may ask three, and all other opposition parties may ask two if a party holds no seat they my not ask questions.. - The parties in government may not ask their own questions, although they may ask questions in response to questions from the opposition. - Questions may be asked to the President or any other Minister. - All questions asked by the opposition must be responded to in some way. - If a question is addressed to the President , the President may either answer it personally or may delegate that responsibility to another Minister. - If a question is addressed to a Minister, that Minister must answer it. - The opposition member who asked the question will be given an opportunity to respond to the government's answer. However, he will not be allowed to respond with more questions if the quota has already been met.) So the Government will post opening statements (Head Government Party ) or opposition party. Then we will have the questioning start and will last for one year (ingame) or until all parties run out of questions. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:37:41, December 29, 2014 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the President Questions Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This will not help the Opposition to hold the government accountable. The entire Presidium is responsible for holding the government accountable, and can already ask questions. The Presidium is powerful enough to instantly dismiss a government. We don't need this complex question quota system. I doubt it will be enforced properly anyway. The irony in this is that the party proposing it has no seats, and says that a party without seats should not ask questions, yet the same party with no seats had interrupted the Presidium in order to get attention for their leader. -- Andre Fertig, Chairman of the GNRG |
| Date | 20:56:31, December 29, 2014 CET | From | Liberal National Party | To | Debating the President Questions Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Again I will not listen to the muttering idiot why we held more seats than the his party and will at the next election. Aaron Richardson |
| Date | 21:43:26, December 29, 2014 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the President Questions Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This man, who is not a Member of the Presidium, feels the right to insult me. I do not care how many seats his party had in the past. What matters is how many seats his party has now, which is none. -- Andre Fertig, Chairman of the GNRG |
| Date | 22:08:21, December 29, 2014 CET | From | Grand Nationalist Fraction | To | Debating the President Questions Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is a shame to any democracy. Marijke Clerck |
| Date | 01:13:15, December 30, 2014 CET | From | Ecumenical Constitutional Democrat Party | To | Debating the President Questions Act |
| Message | OOC: Too complicated. |
| Date | 02:35:23, December 30, 2014 CET | From | Movement for Percyism | To | Debating the President Questions Act |
| Message | OOC: I like the idea, but to complicated. Yet if it's simpler where anyone can post questions -unlimited- to the involved ministers about what's happening in the world or in the nation then i could support such a thing. |
| Date | 03:59:06, December 30, 2014 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the President Questions Act |
| Message | OOC: Yes, what Simba (the NAP-EL player) is saying makes more sense than the bullshit proposed in this bill. Actually, what Simba (the NAP-EL player) is saying is what already unofficially exists. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 61 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 442 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 96 |
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