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Bill: Electoral Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Cildanian Liberation Party
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: August 2240
Description[?]:
| To inact electoral reforms in order to suppot national unity and freedom of the Republic of Cildanian. Equal representation for regions is an ideal way to promote the national moto of unity. Equal representation will equate to equality among regions which will foster a sense of unity in making appropriate decicions. Geographical location of populations is not as important as the regional structures we seek to develop. Increasing the number of seats is a way of ensuring that currently elected senators do not have to relocate in order to continue serving the people of Cildanian. Increasing the number of seats is also an ideal way of recognizing the broader political landscape in Cildanian. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Current: A pseudo-proportional algorithm that gives considerable advantage to smaller regions.
Proposed: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 425
Current: 203
Proposed: 525
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:00:11, June 08, 2006 CET | From |  National Cildanian Liberation Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | Due to the upcomming election, the debate will be shortened. |
| Date | 04:49:25, June 08, 2006 CET | From | Socialist Democracy Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | I am not sure about this bill. |
| Date | 04:58:04, June 08, 2006 CET | From | National Cildanian Liberation Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | What are you unsure of? More seats and National Unity.. Thats the jist of it. Perhaps it will encourage the people to move into regions on a more equal basis supporting overall development and not just specific Regional development. |
| Date | 05:06:24, June 08, 2006 CET | From | National Cildanian Liberation Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | What are you unsure of? More seats and National Unity.. Thats the jist of it. Perhaps it will encourage the people to move into regions on a more equal basis supporting overall development and not just specific Regional development. |
| Date | 06:25:53, June 08, 2006 CET | From | One Cildania Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | We need less bureacracy, not more. At current a lot of the goverment work is at local level, so there is utterly no need to increase the size of the Senate/Parliament, I forget what we call it these days. As for equal representation, we need to have equal representation on a per person basis, not on a per region. Your argument that it will encourage movement is simply untrue, development of regions is at a regional council level, not the job of the national government, and is not related at all to electoral representation. So, I'm a No. |
| Date | 06:44:33, June 08, 2006 CET | From | National Cildanian Liberation Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | The development of regions in this context are beyond the scope of regional councils. We equal representation per region is for national unity. Be it as it may a geographic national unity but it will escape the favouritism towards larger regions which has been historically present in this government. |
| Date | 21:26:24, June 08, 2006 CET | From | Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | If anything...there should be less seats, to cut down the bureaucracy. |
| Date | 22:26:30, June 08, 2006 CET | From | Divine Party of the Republic | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | How does it promote national unity, if anything it would promote regionalism by giving each region as much power as any other |
| Date | 03:58:42, June 09, 2006 CET | From | National Cildanian Liberation Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | It promotes national unity by giving the same power to each region. Regionalism results when one region has more power than the others. |
| Date | 03:59:38, June 09, 2006 CET | From | National Cildanian Liberation Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | This will give a more accurate representation of regional interests in a national policy. |
| Date | 07:16:49, June 09, 2006 CET | From | One Cildania Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform Act |
| Message | Regional boundaries are human constructions, to divide the government equally is not fair or logical. We need to ensure that the political system represents people as fairly as possible, which is on a per-person basis, under the current system. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 272 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 153 |
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