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Bill: SLP - Alternativa Progressista
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Liberal Party
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: January 2301
Description[?]:
| O Partido Liberal Social apresenta a sua proposta progressista. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Current: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Proposed: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Current: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Current: Health care is entirely private.
Proposed: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning immigration.
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: Everyone is allowed to reside permanently in this nation.
Proposed: Quotas are based on individual applicant's qualifications.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Current: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Current: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Current: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Proposed: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Current: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Current: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Proposed: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Article 12
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: Schools should not educate students in sexual matters.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Article 13
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Current: There is an official state religion, and membership is mandatory.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:44:51, October 18, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the SLP - Alternativa Progressista |
| Message | 1º os senhores faziam questão em falar na língua inglesa e em colocar os títulos das propostas de lei nessa mesma língua. Agora, fazem-nos em português. Afinal, em que ficamos? Para além do mais estas propostas são absurdas. Os senhores simplesmente estão a revogar propostas que sabem irão passar, não faz nenhum sentido! O SLP em vez de tentar chegar a consensos políticos com o partido do Governo limita-se a fazer contra-propostas e terrorismo político na sua desesperada tentativa de criar instabilidade governativa. Meu caro, se não sabe o que é maioria absoluta, o Partido Conservador tem o prazer de lhe explicar. |
| Date | 12:06:52, October 18, 2006 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the SLP - Alternativa Progressista |
| Message | Decidimos reverter de novo para o Português uma vez que neste momento apenas existem partidos portugueses activos. Não estamos a revogar propostas que vão passar. Estamos a apresentar as nossas propostas para leis que acabaram de ser mudadas e com toda a franqueza, não compreendemos porque é que a nossa actividade política faz tanta confusão ao Partido Conservador. O nosso partido chegará facilmente a consenso com o governo quando tal for possível. Pensamos que não é razoável pedir concordância com políticas com as quais discordamos em absoluto. Sobretudo no actual paradigma parlamentar em que existe um mandato claro e inequivoco para que um partido governe. Reconhecemos. No entanto lamentamos que o Partido Conservador apelide a nossa actividade política de terrorismo e que nos acuse de tentar destabilizar. Alias.. repare que o Partido Conservador está neste momento a acusar o nosso Partido de tentar destabilizar o que jamais poderá ser destabilizado a não ser por um acto eleitoral e pela vontade soberana do povo. Uma maioria absoluta. Dispensamos lições do Partido Conservador sobre o que é uma maioria absoluta e fazemos nós agora uma interrogação. Se a nossa actividade política em prol da representatividade de mais de 9 milhões de Lusitanos que votaram em nós, é terrorismo... pergunto ao Partido Conservador, como acha que deveríamos fazer então? Voltar as costas aos nossos eleitores? Fazer nada? Gerar um estado uni-partidário artificial? Nós achamos que não. Achamos que cabe ao governo governar e que cabe à oposição, opor. Russ Feingold, Líder do Partido Liberal Social. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 64 | |
| no |
Total Seats: 179 | |
| abstain |
Total Seats: 57 |
| Random fact: The people in your nation don't like inactive parties. When you often abstain from voting for a bill, they will dislike your party and your visibility to the electorate will decrease significantly. Low visibility will means you are likely to lose seats. So keep in mind: voting Yes or No is always better than Abstaining. |
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