Moreover, even excluding the unstated aims, it still is a bill I'd vote contra to.
It is not a good idea to impose and force deputies who are also de jure successors, because this only risks creating friction within the office. Deputies should be chosen by the office-holder and they serve (and are dismissed) at his pleasure because good working relationship is essential. There is no real succession problem that this bill solves except by creating a locked-in system with only ill consequences: deputies are already the natural successors without the need of making it automatic.
It is not a good idea to impose and force deputies who are also de jure successors, because this only risks creating friction within the office. Deputies should be chosen by the office-holder and they serve (and are dismissed) at his pleasure because good working relationship is essential. There is no real succession problem that this bill solves except by creating a locked-in system with only ill consequences: deputies are already the natural successors without the need of making it automatic.