Would @the TNC leadership in the Cosă have any objections to a PD re-establishing the rules for electing a Túischac'h? Time is pressing if we want a Túischac'h to preside over a Living Cosă on the 25th.

That used to be how it worked in Talossa. The King could simply veto judicial decisions as well as acts of the Ziu. The "good old days" if you're a monarchist, or if the King is on your side.

I mean, I should note that I have a suggestion for the incoming Túischac'h - one conforming to the tradition that the Túischac'h should come from the opposition parties - and that suggestion is Lüc da Schir. But the majority will have the final say.

Estimadas es estimats MCs: I intended at this point to be calling for the election of a Túischac'h, as required by OrgLaw IV.12. However, the procedure for electing a Túischac'h - as previously provided in El Lexhatx - was deleted, by accident. A stuff-up which I take partial responsibility for, because I honestly didn't read that the procedure for electing the Túischac'h was in the part of El Lexh I wanted deleted.

Since we have to elect a Túischac'h anyway, does anyone mind if we use the previous method? I understand that maybe the incoming Cosa majority might have different ideas of how to do it, but I thought it worked well.

QuoteThe Cosa shall elect the Túischac'h as follows. (54RZ21) repealing both (50PD01) (52RZ3)

17.1. At any time between the Election Deadline and the following Dissolution of the Cosa, any Member of the Cosa shall be empowered to publish and open for signatures a petition nominating an eligible person for the office of Túischac'h. (54RZ21) repealing both (50PD01) (52RZ3)
17.2. Once a petition is published, any eligible Member of the Cosa shall be empowered to second the nomination by countersigning the petition in public. (54RZ21) repealing both (50PD01) (52RZ3)
17.3. Members may not second multiple nominations concurrently; if a Member wishes to support a different petition, he/she shall first publicly retract the earlier countersignature. (54RZ21) repealing both (50PD01) (52RZ3)
17.4. Following any number of petitions, presented as above and supporting the same candidate, being signed or counter-signed by members currently representing an absolute majority of seats in the Cosa, the candidate named in the petition(s) shall be declared by the Secretary of State to be the Túischac'h. (54RZ21) repealing both (50PD01) (52RZ3)
17.5. Petitions may not be carried over from one vacancy in the office of Seneschal to Túischac'h. Once a Túischac'h is elected as above, all petitions shall be made moot. (54RZ21) repealing both (50PD01) (52RZ3)

I would be advising the Free Dems to support this, but I can't abide by this provision:

QuoteFURTHERMORE, the Scribe is directed to eliminate from el Lexhatx all "empty" provisions, as when a provision has been deleted but left empty, and to renumber the Titles in question in a sensible fashion.

As I've said before, but I can't find where, there are too many places where cross-references in El Lex have been rendered inoperative due to renumberings. "This section intentionally left black" works well in some cases.

We should probably consider this a bit more

Going to advise the FreeDems majority in the Senäts to reject this useless new bureaucracy cluttering up El Lexhatx. Although there's nothing that stops the incoming Government handing out whatever bogus certificates they see fit

Going to advise the FreeDems majority in the Senäts to reject any changes to this ancient, quirky Talossan tradition

Anyway, this needs to be discussed more

I should hope an incoming FreeDem MC reintroduces this

I should note that Justice V has taken the issue of judicial non-partisanship so seriously that he refrains from actively participating in Free Democrat internal forums. So, even if the argument holds water that UC Judges are allowed to be openly partisan, V is attempting to set a counter-example of good behaviour.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of State was under permanent political pressure in the last Cosa, with actual laws being filed to keep him under surveillance, for far less than this. I suggest a single standard of seemly behaviour for members of political parties in non-partisan official roles.

If you don't vote for 3 elections in a role, your citizenship is not taken, it just vanishes, but can be restored for the asking. If you want to abolish the 3 strikes rule, I tried over and over again over years, but there doesn't seem to be a better way to get people off the citizens' roll if they just lose interest in Talossa and/or drop dead.

I should note that - since there were more than 10 candidates chosen as part of our "write-in' ballot system - I got charged $10 by the OpaVote website. I am happy to see this as a donation to the Fiovan treasury.

I urge the King and the incoming Cosa majority to use the provisions of the just-passed 57RZ19 to establish a new Government with the utmost alacrity. The outgoing Government is keen to facilitate the changeover. (I should note that, re: the ministries of STUFF and Technology, the requisite passwords are all in the possession of the Permanent Secretary Lüc da Schir.)

OpaVote counting procedure, stage 5:



Therefore, on the fifth count, Bråneu Excelsio gets the 3rd and final seat on the Praisidïeu. This is remarkable as he got zero first preference votes and beat two candidates who did get a vote - mainly due to benefiting from "second-choice" votes from other successful candidates.

Congratulations to the new Praisidïeu. I welcome the Provincial SoS and anyone else present double-checking my data entry and/or the vote-counting procedure.