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Bill: Senate Restoration Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Barış ve Düzen Konseyi
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: February 4990
Description[?]:
| This reform will re-establish the old Jakanian Senate of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Senatosu), to serve as a directly elected upper house. • Under the new law, the Senate will consist of 150 members, all of whom are elected for 8-year terms; the terms may be shortened in the event of a snap election. • Half (75) of the senators will be elected with each ordinary (lower house) election, in a staggered electoral system. • Most (60 out of 75) seats up for election each time are elected proportionally, by the D'Hondt method (https://icon.cat/util/elections), based on the votes cast by the electorate in the lower house election. • A further 10 seats out of 75 are awarded to the party that received the largest number of votes in the nation-wide lower house election, as a majority bonus. • The final 5 seats are given on a first-past-the-post basis to the party or parties with a plurality of the vote in each of the country's 5 regions. • There will be a 5% electoral threshold for parties to win seats from the proportional bloc of seats; this threshold does not need to be met to win any of the 5 regional seats. • If the size of the lower house is changed in the future, the size of the Senate must be scaled with it; the Senate must have a number of members in the range of 20% to 33.3% of the size of the lower house at any given time, and it must always have an even-numbered membership. • If passed, the restored Senate will be elected at the next general election, currently scheduled for 4992, though this may or may not be brought forward. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:01:30, March 11, 2022 CET | From | 🌾Sebat Partisi | To | Debating the Senate Restoration Act |
| Message | Repealed in 5086 (http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=655255) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 600 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players who deliberately attempt to present a misleading picture of the nation's current RP laws will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada." - Lorne Bloch |