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Bill: Constitution of the Republic (5155)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nova União Democrática
Status[?]: defeated
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 5178
Description[?]:
| Article 1 "The Republic" -The Nation shall be known as the "República de Tukarali" -The nation shall be organized into a unitary parliamentary republic -The nation shall be organized into five regions and below it a unspecified number of municipalities -The Regions, as per this constitution, have their own parliament and regional premier elected by that parliament. The regions must enforce national law but may also legislate their own local taxes, legislate municipal organization, oversee municipalities and ensure their proper governance, maintain regional infrastructure, maintain their own executive government, approve or reject municipal zoning changes. -The Regions have a responsibility of overseeing the municipalities and ensuring that municipalities are financially stable. If a municipality has a budget deficit of 10% or greater the region may take over governance until the deficit is once again at no greater then 2% of the budget. Regions may also take over governance if corruption has been determined until it is clear that corruption is lowered or completely gone. -The Regions must organize elections every 4 years and may legislate the organization of their municipalities elections as long as municipalities still hold regular elections -Municipalities have a directly elected mayor and a proportionally elected municipal council and may decide over local zoning (with regional approval), handing out building permits, protecting local nature, maintaining local security, enacting local taxes, maintaining local infrastructure and institutions. Article 2 "Executive" -The executive functions within a unitary parliamentary system -The President of the Republic is the head of state of the republic and elected every 7 years by a joint session of all regional parliaments, the Assembly and the 7 largest municipal councils together named the "Constituent Assembly" -The President of the Republic represents the unitary of the nation and serves as its main symbolic figurehead. He or she may appoint the Prime Minister, Chief Justice and is head of the armed forces -The President of the Republic may send official messages to the Assembly, veto legislation and disband parliament on the request of the majority -The President of the Republic may call a referendum with the support of at least half of the ministers of government -The President of the Republic may appoint state officials, most notably the head of intelligence, head of the national police and lower state functionaries. -The President of the Republic receives diplomats, and ratifies international treaties. -The President of the Republic may grant pardons, commute sentences, and confer honorary distinctions of the Republic. -The Prime Minister of the Republic is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Assembly -The Prime Minister of the Republic serves for 4 years unless early elections are called or he/her loses confidence of parliament -The Prime Minister of the Republic serves as chair of the Council of Ministers -The Prime Minister of the Republic serves as head of government -The Prime Minister of the Republic may appoint a council of ministers with parliament approval -The Prime Minister of the Republic sets out domestic and foreign policy agendas with approval from themajority of the Council of Ministers -The Prime Minister of the Republic directs the actions of ministers when it concerns government policy and has the power to dismiss individual ministers if deemed out of line with government policy on a occasional basis -The Council of Ministers consists of all the various ministers of state and is appointed by the Prime Minister and confirmed by parliament -The ministers may make policy decisions based on existing law and are generally required to do so in line with standing government policy -The ministers are responsible to the Prime Minister who also has the power to dismiss ministers in certain cases Article 3 "Legislature" -The legislature is the Assembly of the Republic which is the unicameral chamber of the nation -The Assembly of the Republic is elected through a regional proportional system whereby the regions are allocated a x amount of seats based on population and divide their seats through a proportional method. Regions are responsible for properly managing elections for the Assembly -The Assembly of the Republic consists of 500 seats -The Assembly of the Republic may propose, ammend, pass or reject legislation applicable to the entire nation, enact motions that have to be carried out by government, issue parliamentary investigations, remove the Prime Minister by a majority vote, trigger early elections, declare war and control the budgetary process. Article 4 "Judiciary" -The Judiciary is a independent branch of government, only partly overseen by the Ministry of Justice -The Judiciary is appointed and controlled by the Judiciary Board, consisting of the most senior justices in the country -The Judiciary Board appoints all judges -The Judiciary is divided into 5 regional courts, financial courts and the National High Court. -The Regional courts may take up cases and make a ruling on them, individuals can appeal to have their case taken by a different regional court. -A final appeal can be made to the National High Court after the first appeal which will then make a final ruling -All courts make rulings based on national law with the exception of financial courts -Financial courts make rulings concerning money related issues and also make rulings on municipal and regional tax rules and legislation. |
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Debate
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| Date | 18:06:09, September 08, 2022 CET | From |  Moderation | To | Debating the Constitution of the Republic (5155) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 750 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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