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Bill: Speaker of the Parliament Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Civic Bloc
Status[?]: passed
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 4634
Description[?]:
| This proposal is intended to provide constitutional regulation of the election process of the Speaker as well as his office -The governing party (or government parties) can nominate a candidate for the election of the Speaker , the candidate must be elected - A majority approval is required -If the candidate of the ruling party does not get the requisite majority, then the largest oppostition party (in fact all opposition parties but it is convetionel to leave it to the strongest party) is allowed to nominate a candidate, this candidate also needs a majority of the votes -If no new speaker is selected then the previous speaker remains -It is not conventional to nominate a candidate if there is no change of government -The Speaker of the Parliament must be neutral and must withdraw his party membership Elvira Rawson MP Leader of the Opposition & Mauricio Hipólito MP |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:29:21, September 12, 2019 CET | From | United Civic Bloc | To | Debating the Speaker of the Parliament Act |
| Message | This proposal is intended to provide constitutional regulation of the election process of the Speaker as well as his office -The governing party (or government parties) can nominate a candidate for the election of the Speaker , the candidate must be elected - A majority approval is required -If the candidate of the ruling party does not get the requisite majority, then the largest oppostition party (in fact all opposition parties but it is convetionel to leave it to the strongest party) is allowed to nominate a candidate, this candidate also needs a majority of the votes -If no new speaker is selected then the previous speaker remains -It is not conventional to nominate a candidate if there is no change of government -The Speaker of the Parliament must be neutral and must withdraw his party membership Elvira Rawson MP Leader of the Opposition & Mauricio Hipólito MP |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 241 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "What luck for the rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler |