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Bill: Anti-Corruption Act 4223
Details
Submitted by[?]: Labour 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: December 4224
Description[?]:
| A Bill to ban private financing of elections in favour of solely public funding; - in order to end legalised bribery and minimise direct corporate influence of electoral results. - to provide equal funding and minimise unfair advantages towards parties with high corporate support. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Public financing of political campaigns
Old value:: All candidates receive public funds, and can still accept donations.
Current: The government decides which candidates can receive public funds on a case-by-case basis.
Proposed: All candidates receive public funds but are not allowed to accept donations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:42:01, June 07, 2017 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Act 4223 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The Federation seeks to implement a bill that minimises corporate influence of politics via donations and collusion. In the current system of funding corporations and other rich members of society can donate vast sums of money in order to out fund parties which are in opposition to their self interests, hence negating the democratic process. The Federation implores the house to vote for this bill; so that it is the party with the best ideas, not the largest donors, wins out. The Masked Man, Delegate Leader of the Anarchist Federation |
| Date | 21:43:00, June 07, 2017 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Act 4223 |
| Message | that wins out* |
| Date | 16:30:38, June 10, 2017 CET | From | White Rose | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Act 4223 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Donations, when properly registered and transparent, are not bribery, they are the expression of a free political and democratic society. James Stinson Deputy Leader of the RCP Foreign Secretary |
| Date | 18:19:46, June 10, 2017 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Act 4223 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, How is a political system democratic when funding, one of the most important commodities required to win an election, is not distributed equally between each party but instead is distributed based on which ever party has the highest corporate support? Having a system inwhich one party can have a disproportionate amount of money to throw at advertising and campaigning compared to other parties is obviously a system that has an undemocratic element that can skew elections in favour of parties which pander to the rich minority's interests. The Masked Man, Delegate Leader of the Anarchist Federation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 330 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 70 |
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