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Bill: Parliamentary Review 4227
Details
Submitted by[?]: Konservative Unionistische Partei
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 4230
Description[?]:
| Esteemed Members & Colleagues, The Conservative Party begs to move the motion for change, opportunity and maximised representation. We present our case below: - A smaller legislative assembly will allow "better communication" and enhanced methods of communication between representatives and constituents - Reducing the number of legislative members will come at a reduced cost both economically and socially allowing funding to be reallocated elsewhere, members must decide whether they believe in public investment or the bureaucratic administration fees - It will remove inbuilt bias to specific parties in our nation - Bring democracy to the heart of every constituent - [[OOC: It will be great for roleplay reasons, being able to name and discuss different characters]] Anthony Reiss Leader of the Conservative Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 500
Current: 150
Proposed: 129
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:58:52, June 17, 2017 CET | From | Liberale Partei | To | Debating the Parliamentary Review 4227 |
| Message | - 'Better communication' does not come form giving each represenatitve huge numbers of constituents. - 'Bureaucratic administration fees' is just a convenient way of saying 'money to guarantee democracy'. - It will not reduce bias -- it will topple debate and democracy by establishing a one-party state without good representation! - Thus destroying democracy by reducing local representation. (OOC; it will destroy roleplay by disallowing smaller parties success.) Listen, Herr Reiss, your silvertongued lies and fancy wording do not veil the anti-democratic lunacy at the heart of all this. We beg of the parties not to support this bill for the good of the people! This Assembly has rejected this suggestion multiple times and yet the KP refuse to give up. Please, for the good of this nation, stop. Tim Schulhoff LP Leader |
| Date | 20:10:12, June 17, 2017 CET | From | Konservative Unionistische Partei | To | Debating the Parliamentary Review 4227 |
| Message | OOC; I think you should refer to smaller parties such as UKIP and the Lib Dems in the UK which both campaign for a smaller parliament |
| Date | 23:41:24, June 17, 2017 CET | From | Liberale Partei | To | Debating the Parliamentary Review 4227 |
| Message | OOC: wow because they're both fantastic parties haha ;) but seriously, it seems to me that it would require a larger portion of the vote to gain seats which would limit the amount of input for smaller parties starting out. As such this would discourage new players... at least that's how it seems to me haha. Regardless I doubt the LP would support this :) |
| Date | 16:20:10, June 21, 2017 CET | From | Liberale Partei | To | Debating the Parliamentary Review 4227 |
| Message | Please stop reproposing this measure! You won't succeed! Adalger Wichterle LP Leader |
| Date | 08:14:32, June 22, 2017 CET | From | Popular Revolutionary Front | To | Debating the Parliamentary Review 4227 |
| Message | OOC: Perhaps a compromise could be reached? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 308 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 121 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 71 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "The only people who would be hurt by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming." - Kirill Kondratyev |