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Bill: Mayoral Elections Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Party of Rildanor
Status[?]: defeated
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: March 2288
Description[?]:
| the people select their own leaders |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The appointment of mayors.
Old value:: The Head of State oversees the appointment of all mayors.
Current: Citizens elect their mayor directly in a local election.
Proposed: Citizens elect their mayor directly in a local election.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:46:56, September 22, 2006 CET | From |  Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Mayoral Elections Bill |
| Message | We will not support this bill: 1. NOT because we want the HoS oversee the appointment of mayors BUT the proposed value is not to our liking, with directly elected mayors we might run the risk of having 'non-parallel' governments - different parties in local and national governments - this creates problems. 2. We PREFER the proposed value to be 'The municipal councils exercise mayoral powers.' |
| Date | 16:03:50, September 22, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Party of Rildanor | To | Debating the Mayoral Elections Bill |
| Message | so again you are for taking power away from the people and keeping it in the hands of a select few? there is nothing wrong with different parties in the local and national governments the point of a democracy is to give people a choice |
| Date | 16:11:46, September 22, 2006 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Mayoral Elections Bill |
| Message | "there is nothing wrong with different parties in the local and national governments the point of a democracy is to give people a choice" We prefer to call that and unefficient way of governing a Nation. There has to be a decent collaboration between national and local governments, we cannot achieve that by establishing authorities with different policies. "so again you are for taking power away from the people and keeping it in the hands of a select few? As you said yourself, the people choose their representatives and a council with mayoral powers is, in our opinion, the ideal way to preserve democracy. |
| Date | 16:21:09, September 22, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Party of Rildanor | To | Debating the Mayoral Elections Bill |
| Message | so it is unefficient to have the power in hand of the people? we aren't preserving democracy by taking power away from the people and giving it to a select few and the point isn't to maintain collaboration the point is to let the people choose who decideds what goes on in their daily lives we want several different policies to match the different people living in our country |
| Date | 19:16:59, September 22, 2006 CET | From | Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Mayoral Elections Bill |
| Message | We're voting against because we prefer the Queen to have some powers. This way, distinguished and truly qualified people asume the responsibilities. |
| Date | 21:44:06, September 22, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Party of Rildanor | To | Debating the Mayoral Elections Bill |
| Message | like the queen who was born into that position and did nothing to earn that title? and are you saying that the people aren't qualified enough to choose who governs them? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 291 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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