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Bill: Early Election Act 2300
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Independence Movement
Status[?]: passed
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: October 2303
Description[?]:
| This Bill will address when an early election should be called. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:36:33, October 18, 2006 CET | From | National Independence Movement | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | This bill will be more of a resolution, so that the opinion of the public can be more clearly represented. RESOLUTION: - To prevent the continued unequivical situation caused when parties have no seats in the legislature. - If one party maintains a majority, they must follow the will of the other parties when it comes to an early election regardless of seat numbers. Trigger events: - One party holds more than half the available seats in the legislature. - 2 or more parties have no seats in the legislature. - If the majority consensus of the parties deems it necessary to have an early election. Requirements: - MINIMUM, of one year between elections. - Parties supporting the move to call an early election must have a developed platform. Action(s): - An early election must be called and supported by the governing party. - If the governing party an early election may be called by any seat holding party. |
| Date | 15:18:39, October 18, 2006 CET | From | Techno-Organic Epiphany | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | The FPP disagrees. If a party is lucky to win a majority as it is now (with 4 active parties with seats, and two other active parties...it may seem hard to!) then they deserve that majority! It would be sufficient if we had elections every week. This would prevent the long strands of painful waiting, while still providing an incentive for a party to win a majority. Furthermore, if we trigger an early election all of the time, there might not be any benefits gained by the smaller parties who haven't any seats. They need time to vote on bills to create a platform. Thus, we should wait before triggering an early election. No, one week should be sufficient. |
| Date | 15:50:06, October 18, 2006 CET | From | National Independence Movement | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | This would be a back to if FPP bill fails in ammending the constituion. |
| Date | 21:11:21, October 20, 2006 CET | From | Techno-Organic Epiphany | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | And it did fail. We need to do something about this... |
| Date | 22:02:06, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Techno-Organic Epiphany | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | How will this be enforced though? We already proved that the SDP is not willing to support anything that puts them at a disadvantage... :-| |
| Date | 22:28:03, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Warriors of the Path of Rightousness | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | well an early election only requires half the votes right, so there is half that could do it anyway. |
| Date | 22:30:45, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Techno-Organic Epiphany | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | Oh, i suppose. It just makes it nice and messy if they agree though... Whatever happens, lets just hope that nobody gets a majority government again lol. |
| Date | 04:08:13, October 24, 2006 CET | From | Populist Islamic Workers' League | To | Debating the Early Election Act 2300 |
| Message | There is no proposal in this bill... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 278 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 472 |
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