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Bill: Local Government empowerement act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beluzian Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 4299
Description[?]:
| We made it simplier this time so it could actually pass. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Proposed: The government operates and owns all banks.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards hunting endangered animals.
Old value:: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Current: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Proposed: Local governments decide about this.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on whaling.
Old value:: Commercial whaling is illegal, but whaling for scientific purposes is allowed.
Current: Whaling is illegal.
Proposed: Local governments decide about whaling.
Article 4
Withdraw from the Climate Change Council.
Article 5
Withdraw from the Taixi Progressive Trade Accord (TPTA).
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Current: The government maintains a list of dangerous wild animals which may not be kept as pets; other wild animals may be kept as pets.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:41:38, November 06, 2017 CET | From | Beluzian Party | To | Debating the Local Government empowerement act |
| Message | The nationalization of the Beluzian banks has nothing to do with our campain donors who own the private banks telling us they are broke and heavily in debt after having looted the money instead of actually investing or loaning the money that people were saving in them! -Alphonse Gabriel Wewecho, finance minister as recognized by the BDP. |
| Date | 06:11:04, November 06, 2017 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Local Government empowerement act |
| Message | Only Article 1 we support. We will vote no because of the BDP's ignorance to the fact that climate change is real and the world is developing at an unsustainable rate |
| Date | 07:08:39, November 06, 2017 CET | From | Beluzian Party | To | Debating the Local Government empowerement act |
| Message | It is a hoax invented by Yingdala to make sure we can not compete with them! if the world was developing at an unsustainable rate we would be all dead by now! i know it is fake because there is still snow! and even if it was not, the improved economy would be so much better that it would allow us all to get machines to colonize space and find a better planet! -Aquillo Mando Alemán,candidate for Science and Technology of the BDP. ratified by -Yopesco Yocazo Yocosecho,candidate for Food and Agriculture of the BDP. and by -Marya Rowina Coal,candidate for Trade and Industry of the BDP. |
| Date | 16:42:45, November 06, 2017 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Local Government empowerement act |
| Message | Again, the BDP is creating lies and placing the blame of our problems on a fictional nation in Terra. There is no such country called Yingdala. If the BDP can kindly point it out on a map of Terra, that would be great. |
| Date | 18:44:47, November 06, 2017 CET | From | Katsuran Party | To | Debating the Local Government empowerement act |
| Message | OOC: Yingdala is an alternative name for Indrala. |
| Date | 20:14:25, November 06, 2017 CET | From | Beluzian Party | To | Debating the Local Government empowerement act |
| Message | Who is the ignorant one after that! I told you Yingdala existes and is trying to ruin us with this climate change hoax! -Dr Wewecho Pantafloja, President of Beluzia. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 287 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 463 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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