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Bill: Lex Cinna de Gubernatio Concinnatio
Details
Submitted by[?]: Clara Aurora - COSIRA
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: October 4530
Description[?]:
| Cinnan Law on Government Formation Senators, In Marea was opposed in the first instance to the establishment of the figure of the Rector while they were granted too many powers and powers that cut the popular will. One of them, the possibility that only them can determine the composition of the governments of our nation, is the most counterproductive of all. Although up to now it has corresponded that the elected Rectors have been able to form a cabinet with forces that possessed the majority in the Senate, in the current situation of bipartisanship that Selucia lives, it may be the case that the elected Rector does not correspond to the majority that there is in the Senate. If this is the case, with what right is it determined that the votes in the presidential elections have more value than in the legislative ones? Should not the parliament, through those political forces that possess the parliamentary majority, be allowed to establish who are the members that will accompany the Rector in the government of Selucia? Otherwise, if this action is not allowed, it will be implying that it does not matter who the people of Selucia vote in the legislative elections, since it will always be the Rector who chooses his comrades. Axia Cinna Dux Oppositionis |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The constitutional right and responsibility to propose a cabinet to the legislature.
Old value:: Only the Head of State can propose a cabinet coalition.
Current: Each party can propose a cabinet coalition.
Proposed: Each party can propose a cabinet coalition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:07:53, February 12, 2019 CET | From | Factio Republicana Socialistica | To | Debating the Lex Cinna de Gubernatio Concinnatio |
| Message | Senators, It appears that the governing party remains committed to the outdated principles of parliamentary democracy, which we have long abandoned. In Selucia the executive and the legislative constitute completely separate and distinct branches of government, and as such there is no requirement for the governing executive to correspond to the legislative majority; it is only the unfortunate custom that has prevented previous Rectors from having their cabinet appointments approved by the Senate when said appointments belonged exclusively to the Rector's party. We in fact believe it necessary to introduce an even stricter separation between the branches of government by requiring the Senate to approve all executive appointments proposed by the Rector unless there are grave concerns about the character or behavior of the appointed officers. Both the Rector and the Senate derive their power from and are accountable to the People, and as such neither institution is more democratic than the other. To subordinate the executive to the legislative in such a manner is to abolish the separation of powers and to return legislative tyranny to Selucia. The best guarantee of democracy is the fact that in our system ambition counteracts ambition. Each branch of government has the constitutional powers and the personal motives to resist the encroachment of the others. That is how we like it, and that is how we wish to keep it. Maurus Ovidius Belisarius Senator |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 417 | |
| no | Total Seats: 333 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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