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Following each General Election there shall be an official "State Opening of the Ziu". At the start of the State Opening, the new Seneschal shall be sworn to the office publicly.  The Sovereign shall then deliver a speech outlining the Government's legislative agenda and programme for the term. The contents of this speech shall be communicated to the Sovereign by the incoming Seneschal prior to the ceremony. The Seneschal may announce Cabinet Ministers during the ceremony. A rebuttal by the Leader of the Opposition shall follow, which may be followed by a further rebuttal by the leader of the third largest party. When practical, the State Opening may include an official Living Cosă (and 'Living Senats') in which food and drink shall be featured and as many Talossans as possible shall be invited to attend. The event shall be organised and conducted by the Speakers of both Houses of the Ziu, working in coordination and cooperation with each other.

I've spent the past hour searching for this, but can't find it. I'm 100% certain that there used to be a webpage that explained that there were two definitions of the word Cosa. One referring to the House and one referring to the parliament session.  It used to be on KoT.net, but that info is now lost it seems.

So, the question is, is that dual definition still accepted or are we now saying that the word Cosa only refers to the Cosa House?  If the word now only has a single definition, I will amend this Bill to read State Opening of the Ziu.

(I also note that the word Cosa and the word Ziu both translate to Parliament.  I don't know what to make of that).

Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on October 20, 2020, 09:35:09 AM
Just a thought...maybe call it "State Opening of the Ziu" - that would encompass both houses and the Monarch. They don't call it a State Opening of the Commons in the UK but a State Opening of Parliament.

It might work.

Although technically the Senats never closes for it to have to be officially re-opened.  The Cosa House is regularly prorogued, while the Senats is always seated.

The Cosa session is what should be getting opened. In other words the opening of the 55th Cosa, in which both houses of parliament carry out business.

It is also possible that there may be times when a member from neither House would need or want to be present.  For example, a Cabinet Minister doesn't need to be an MZ.  It's unlikely to ever happen, but the party leaders don't even need to be MZs.

Maybe it was poor legislating on my part, but when my intent wasn't for this ceremony to be a thing of the Houses.  It was supposed to be the King opening the new session.

WHEREAS it was a plank of the coalition government to introduce legislative proposals that seek to create explicit cultural duties for the Monarch, and

WHEREAS the law was amended so that a regular State Opening of the Cosa would be held, and

WHEREAS my intention was that the word Cosa in that paragraph referred to the Opening of the Cosa Session not just the Cosa House, and

WHEREAS if the Cosa House makes this their own affair then in times when the Seneschal, Leader of the Opposition, leader of the third party or Cabinet members are not sitting members of the Cosa they may not be able to attend and participate, so

THEREFORE be it enacted by the Ziu assembled that El Lexhatx H.1 which currently reads:

Following each General Election there shall be an official "State Opening of the Cosa". At the start of the State Opening, the new Seneschal shall be sworn to the office publicly.  The Sovereign shall then deliver a speech outlining the Government's legislative agenda and programme for the term. The contents of this speech shall be communicated to the Sovereign by the incoming Seneschal prior to the ceremony. The Seneschal may announce Cabinet Ministers during the ceremony. A rebuttal by the Leader of the Opposition shall follow, which may be followed by a further rebuttal by the leader of the third largest party. When practical, the State Opening shall be held during an official Living Cosă for which food and drink shall be featured and as many Talossans as possible shall be invited to attend.

is hereby amended to read:

Following each General Election there shall be an official "State Opening of the Ziu". At the start of the State Opening, the new Seneschal shall be sworn to the office publicly.  The Sovereign shall then deliver a speech outlining the Government's legislative agenda and programme for the term. The contents of this speech shall be communicated to the Sovereign by the incoming Seneschal prior to the ceremony. The Seneschal may announce Cabinet Ministers during the ceremony. A rebuttal by the Leader of the Opposition shall follow, which may be followed by a further rebuttal by the leader of the third largest party. When practical, the State Opening may include an official Living Cosă (and 'Living Senats') in which food and drink shall be featured and as many Talossans as possible shall be invited to attend. The event shall be organised and conducted by the Speakers of both Houses of the Ziu, working in coordination and cooperation with each other.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 19, 2020, 08:30:27 PM

Quote from: Eðo Grischun on October 19, 2020, 04:49:22 PM
Am I correct to assume that this won't apply to Senators Plätschisch and Bornatfiglheu? Will the Senators be permitted to make rebuttal speeches as leader of the opposition and leader of the third party, respectively, as specified in the Act?

I'd be amazed if the Minister of Culture wants to make a rebuttal speech to this own government! Sorry, not amazed, "annoyed".

Indeed, but I'm more making sure that the option will be there.

To clarify, when I wrote the Act modifying the opening ceremony I didn't intend it to end up being the State opening of the House of the Cosa, rather the State Opening of the n'th Cosa (ie: Cosa session, not Cosa House).  The Senate not being included didn't cross my mind otherwise I would have wrote in some phrasing to cover times when the opposition leader and Lo3p didn't sit as MCs.

Quote from: Açafat del Val on October 19, 2020, 06:53:35 PM
So that the nominee may answer the questions asked of him by the Senator from Benito, the same shall continue to have speaking time through the end of Thursday, October 22nd.

The Senator from Vuode shall have speaking time (to ask questions and receive answers) from Friday, October 21st, through Monday the 26th.

(Sorry, should have mentioned.  I only request time to speak and don't intend to question the nominee. I will not need all those days.  The Friday alone will suffice.)

A follow up, if I may?

Am I correct to assume that this won't apply to Senators Plätschisch and Bornatfiglheu? Will the Senators be permitted to make rebuttal speeches as leader of the opposition and leader of the third party, respectively, as specified in the Act?

I am hopeful and almost sure the answer will be yes to this question, but could the Speaker of the Cosa confirm whether Senators are invited to attend and observe the live feeds of the State Opening of the Cosa?

The happy couple throw the bouquet of poultry at a traditional Ataturk wedding.

Co-sponsor please.

Istefan has paid the bill.  Transfers are now in process.

The domain transfer process is about to go ahead.

This is notice that there will likely be a little bit of downtime on the incoming domain names during the transfer.

The affected domains are:

kingdomoftalossa.net
kingdomoftalossa.com
kingdomoftalossa.org
talossa.net
talossan.com


The main website at Talossa.com (along with all subdomains: Wittenberg, Wiki, Oversteir, et al) will be unaffected.

Oh. Many thanks, and also apologies to the Regent.  I had actually forgot that the Royal nod for these appointments were still outstanding.

Thanks to both.  I have contacted the Burgermeister about paying the invoice.  Once that is dealt with, the domain transfer process will happen.