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Bill: Political/Administrative Dichotomy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Labor Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2072
Description[?]:
| Political appointments bring little job security and oppurtunities for corruption, secret deals, closed (non-public) decisions and political point scoring. Such a system provides no accountability to the people and only provides disincentives for citizens to have faith in their government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Appointments and requirements for government employees.
Old value:: Government employees are selected and appointed in a political way.
Current: All government employees have to promise political independence.
Proposed: All government employees have to promise political independence.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:42:07, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Labor Party | To | Debating the Political/Administrative Dichotomy |
| Message | To preserve the utmost respect for the profession of the bureaucracy they need to be seen as acting impartially. |
| Date | 12:10:45, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Zuman Independence Party | To | Debating the Political/Administrative Dichotomy |
| Message | We just lost this vote, you have to wait until after the election. |
| Date | 14:30:19, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Restoration Party | To | Debating the Political/Administrative Dichotomy |
| Message | yay and the public obviously apprecited your hardline stand! |
| Date | 20:09:00, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Alliance for Natural Law | To | Debating the Political/Administrative Dichotomy |
| Message | Actually, I voted for, (OOC: after realizing that there *was* a proposal attached), and would do so again. You may convince some others (OOC: again, I had not been aware of the proposal the first time). Why not try? |
| Date | 13:37:25, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Restoration Party | To | Debating the Political/Administrative Dichotomy |
| Message | Well good thing we packed the FMinistry with royalists before we vacated that office! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 86 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 78 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 11 |
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