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Moved both!

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on October 27, 2026, 08:43:34 PMI would like to submit the Budget for the 63rd Cosa (I will link later).

This bill cannot be Clarked yet, as it has to lay in the Hopper for ten days first, meaning until October 30th, and then go through the normal CRL approval process. (Deja vu...)

The call for bills for the November 2026 Clark (the second of the 63rd Cosă) is now open. You may post a link to a bill's Hopper thread underneath in the usual fashion, provided it has passed the Hopper according to Lex.H.2 and you are entitled to Clark bills.

I will accept for Clarking any such bills (except for any that fall foul of H.2.7) that are presented between now and October 31st 11:59 PM TST, as I will begin assembling the Clark in the European morning of November 1st.

Sure!

Quote from: King Txec on October 23, 2026, 12:24:16 PMWell this is certainly an interesting thing to come up. Has any previous King ever had to make a decision about vacant seats like this? This feels like uncharted waters for sure.

The one instance that comes to mind is in the 38th Ziu, where I think the late Baron Fritz and ex-Seneschal John McGarry got one seat each from King John. (Although I don't quite remember why - probably a write-in vote for a party nobody registered, which happened quite frequently around 2006-2009 because of the turnover in which parties were around.)

QuoteI've worked quite hard to remain nonpartisan so my concern should be understandable. I do like the idea of them being new citizen seats. @Sir Lüc is this feasible?

Yes, it would be completely feasible. Although they would be "seats given to new citizens", not "new citizen seats", so they would work like normal seats and become available again should they be vacated, instead of vanishing. A new citizen would also not be limited to holding just one.

One other thing is that the seats belong to each MC, so they could ask me to represent some other entity than the Independent Progressive, despite the latter having won them at the elections.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on October 23, 2026, 03:20:52 PM

Quote from: Sir Lüc on October 23, 2026, 10:44:46 AMRight, I hoped for some feedback (particularly from the Government, which is the centerpiece of the event), but we're gonna go with that minimal program for now, and leave open the floor after the rebuttal for further comments on the Speech, addresses on other matters, or for members who wish to debate bills in the Hopper.

We will attempt to conduct the State Opening on our own platform: the link will be https://riunetz.talossa.com/StateOpening.

Save the date: Sunday, October 25th, at 9 PM Central European / 8 PM British / 4 PM Eastern / 3 PM TDT-Central / 1 PM Western / 9 AM NZDT (of Monday 26th) - https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20261025T200000&p1=157&p2=158

Everyone is welcome to attend, but MZs are especially encouraged to do so. Tagging MZs: @xpb @Françal I. Lux @Duke John @Moinul Moin @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP @Tåltind Furxheir (Ethan Smith) @Barclamïu da Miéletz @mpf @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @þerxh Sant-Enogat @GV @mximo @Béneditsch Ardpresteir @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu @Eðo Grischun and a separate note for @Breneir Tzaracomprada who is still legally the Leader of the Opposition and is entitled to give the rebuttal, but not to take part in any further debate nor to make any motions.

Is there an estimated time as for how long this will be?

One hour at most. With no rebuttal, if nobody asks to make a further address or to debate anything, we might be done in as little as ten minutes. Hopefully we can get a little chat going at the very least :/

Quote from: Retogenes el Caraunio on October 23, 2026, 10:34:12 AM

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on October 22, 2026, 10:03:01 PMIf you run out of things to write in Talossan, we could use a translation of The Cézembre Conundrum: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?msg=33657

Thanks for the recommendation.

I was wondering whether the Organic Law has already been translated to Talossan.

I think it was intended to be, at least when it got its last major revision in 2017-19, but ultimately no. (Fwiw, it does get amended a couple times a year.)

Yup. I suppose we didn't take anything offline, and maybe we should have, but I can confirm it's been patched as soon as possible.

Right, I hoped for some feedback (particularly from the Government, which is the centerpiece of the event), but we're gonna go with that minimal program for now, and leave open the floor after the rebuttal for further comments on the Speech, addresses on other matters, or for members who wish to debate bills in the Hopper.

We will attempt to conduct the State Opening on our own platform: the link will be https://riunetz.talossa.com/StateOpening.

Save the date: Sunday, October 25th, at 9 PM Central European / 8 PM British / 4 PM Eastern / 3 PM TDT-Central / 1 PM Western / 9 AM NZDT (of Monday 26th) - https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20261025T200000&p1=157&p2=158

Everyone is welcome to attend, but MZs are especially encouraged to do so. Tagging MZs: @xpb @Françal I. Lux @Duke John @Moinul Moin @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP @Tåltind Furxheir (Ethan Smith) @Barclamïu da Miéletz @mpf @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @þerxh Sant-Enogat @GV @mximo @Béneditsch Ardpresteir @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu @Eðo Grischun and a separate note for @Breneir Tzaracomprada who is still legally the Leader of the Opposition and is entitled to give the rebuttal, but not to take part in any further debate nor to make any motions.

The 7 seats from the Independent Progressive are now vacant following ex-MC Tzaracomprada's resignation.

Following the Democracy Amendment's ratification, we're in a novel situation, so let's do this step by step. OrgLaw IV.3 states:

QuoteIn the case of vacant party seats occurring between elections, the Secretary of State shall inform the King and the leader of whatever party held the vacant seat.

I am doing so now: @King Txec and @Breneir Tzaracomprada

QuoteThe Secretary of State shall redistribute all of that party's seats among the remaining eligible candidates on that party's list in the same manner described in the second section, above. If no eligible candidate remains on that party's list, whether by vacation, ineligibility, or the operation of the maximum seats provision, the King may assign the seat according to his own best judgment, or leave it vacant.

By my reading there are neither any "remaining" nor "eligible" candidates, since the Independent Progressive's party list consisted of just S:r Tzaracomprada, and the next sentence states that "vacation" is one of the reason for ineligibility. So I can't automatically redistribute any seats, which is convenient, because we have previously determined that the previous section is partially inoperable (we don't have ordered party lists yet - not that it would have mattered in this specific case.)

So it falls to His Majesty to reassign the 7 seats according to His best judgment, before the Second Clark, or to leave them vacant.

No, I can move it too, I just thought that "is this ready to take to the CRL?" meant "is this draft final or do you have further suggestions?"

The time allotted for voting on the Clark has expired.

As no bills or resolutions have passed both the Cosă and Senäts, Royal Assent is not required.

The Cosă and Senäts have disagreed on the following resolutions:

63RZ01 – Sense of the Ziu: No More Loyalty Parades
Agreed to by the Cosă 115-85, rejected by the Senäts 4-4

63RZ02 – Sense of the Ziu: In Support of Decoloniality
Agreed to by the Cosă 66-22 (112 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 1-1 (6 abstained)

63RZ03 – Sense of the Ziu: When Agents Go Rogue
Agreed to by the Cosă 51-44 (105 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 1-1 (6 abstained)

63RZ04 – Sense of the Ziu: Climate Consequences
Agreed to by the Cosă 66-22 (112 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 0-2 (6 abstained)

The Cosă passed a Vote of Confidence in the incumbent Government 190-10.

All Senators and Members of the Cosă voted.



Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on October 19, 2026, 04:52:43 PM@Sir Lüc is this ready to take to the CRL?

Yeah, I think your draft looks good.

The holidays in the calendar are just the preloaded SMF ones; swapping in our own is one of those things that never happened due to me going on a hiatus and noone else picking them back up, like the News and Newsletter features, theme/UI tweaks and fixes, and translating the interface to Talossan. Again, no point in bothering to do any of those now that we're hopefully moving out very soon.

I think we're safe to announce that the State Opening will indeed be next Sunday, October 25th, at 9 PM Central European / 8 PM British / 4 PM Eastern / 3 PM TDT-Central / 1 PM Western / 9 AM NZDT (of Monday 26th). This link is still valid if you want to convert to an arbitrary timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20261025T200000&p1=157&p2=158

At a bare minimum the session will consist of:

• The Swearing-in of the Seneschal
• Address from the Government, (delivered by His Majesty King Txec)
• Rebuttal from the Opposition

and it seems like there's room for more in the allotted hour, such as addresses from other members, Terpelaziuns and, like I mentioned earlier, debating bills in the Hopper. I would be very interested to hear from those who plan to attend if they have any ideas or wishes.

I don't think there will be time for a further SMF update before we move to Discourse, but once we do, there will likely be a running thread for news and updates.

Again, it was not necessary to create a fresh account. I will delete the old one then.

Edit: Deleted the old account and merged it into the new one.

Non neceßevás creatar ün profil noveu - eu put simplămint modificar-te acest. 

The Chancery acknowledges the same, effective after the closure of Clark business for this month.



Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State