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Bill: A Voice for All - Parliament expansion
Details
Submitted by[?]: Söhne der Freiheit
Status[?]: passed
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 2075
Description[?]:
| The CTP firmly believes that every person should have a party who he can agree wholeheartedly with, this is one of the reasons the CTP was founded to begin with, and we promote an expansion of the parliament so that every person can have his voice heard and not settle for the party they think can win because it has a monopoly on seats. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 200
Current: 75
Proposed: 325
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:44:14, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Edelweiss Party | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | Your proposal is reasonable, Likatonia is a high populated country and if we look to many other countries, electable council seats have been expanded towards the years. I think 325 is a very reasonable number of seats to represent more then 50 million people. We support this proposal! |
| Date | 10:28:34, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Right Wing Liberals Party | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | Support |
| Date | 11:28:53, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | 200 seats has served us adequately in the past. As there has been no large population spikes in the past, I see no reason to vote in favor of increasing the size of our paliament. Besides, I doubt the taxpayers of Likatonia want to pay for an additional 125 legislators and their staffs. |
| Date | 16:13:52, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | For 50 million, 300 would've been better. Did you do the math to get proportional representation? |
| Date | 22:07:16, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | No. 325 seemed good. I didn't know I should have gone that in depth, sorry. |
| Date | 22:48:03, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | The people-to-representatives ratio for 325 is 153846/1. The peopel-to-representatives ratio for 300 is 166666/1. |
| Date | 23:47:58, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | Currently the ratio is: 250000/1 |
| Date | 07:02:44, July 04, 2005 CET | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | People do not vote for representatives. They vote on a regional basis for entire parties. We have no smaller districts. We cannot set any smaller districts. The prefectures are the only valid "districts" available to us. Every single person in the parliament is appointed by the parties according to how many votes the PARTY got. Increasing the seats only allows the parties to seat more politicians. Decreasing the seats doesn't affect people's voting at all, since they have no direct say in parliamentary seats anyways. To put it another way. Say we have a 100 seats available and I win 10% of the vote nationwide. So, I get to choose any 10 people out of the NCP and appoint them to Parliament. If I got 20%, I'd get to chose 20 people out of the NCP. The people didn't elect their representatives, they elected -me- and I appointed their representatives. As you can see, this is a long long ways from a direct diplomacy, and not even very close to a standard republic. |
| Date | 07:21:56, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the A Voice for All - Parliament expansion |
| Message | The nub of the matter is that we want to make the choce people to be able to voice their own opinion through smaller parties more viable. Many people vote for one party because they know it has a large amount of seats and can achieve results, despite the fact the party may or may not support their opinion. We want to make it more viable for people to dissent from the larger parties' platforms. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 136 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 64 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't vote yes on a cabinet coalition that doesn't give you the power that you deserve. |
| Random quote: "Don't blow it, good planets are hard to find." - Quoted in Time Magazine |