The call for bills for the May 2025 Clark (the first of the 61st 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 take any such bills (except for any that fall foul of H.2.7) that are presented between now and the publishing of the Clark, no earlier than the TST morning of May 1st.



Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretary of State

Azul, by the powers conferred unto me (I guess) as Cunstaval of Atatürk, seeing as the province hasn't formed an executive or a House of Commons in many moons, I would like to step in and help get things organised, or at least attempt to do so.

The most recent elections for the House of Commons resulted in 4 votes for the Progressive Alliance and 3 votes for ¡Avant!. Pursuant to Article II.1 of the Constitution of Atatürk, the House of Commons will have 20 seats and so this translates to 11 seats for PROG and 9 for AVANT, after rounding each to the nearest integer.

I invite PROG leader @þerxh Sant-Enogat and AVANT leaders @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be  to apportion their seats as required by Article II.2 (to adult Atatürkeys, without a Talossan criminal record, and who have voted in the most recent General Election).

Azul. All seats of the Cosă having already been filled, first of all, welcome all and thanks for agreeing to serve as Members of the Cosă!

It is my pleasure to hereby open nominations for the post of Túischac'h, to serve until the dissolution of the 61th Cosă (ideally an MC would do this, but the outgoing Túischac'h is no longer an MC.)

The rules governing the election of a Túischac'h are found under Lex.H.4.4:

Quote4.4.1. Should the position of Túischac'h be vacant and a majority of Cosă seats be filled, any Member of the Cosă may either nominate one eligible person for the office of Túischac'h, or second such a nomination made by another Member of the Cosă.
4.4.2. Members of the Cosă may not nominate or second multiple different nominees.
4.4.3. Should the Secretary of State determine that an eligible person has been nominated and seconded by members currently representing an absolute majority of seats in the Cosă, the Secretary of State shall declare the person to be duly elected as Túischac'h, to serve until the Dissolution of the current Cosă.

Azul, with much regret the Chancery, having noted that the citizens noted below have failed to vote or respond to a national census within the last two years, issues the present to serve as Writ of Termination pursuant to Article X Section 5 of the Organic Law.

• Aladna la Mha-Coca (#255)
• Mark Sidahl (#297)
• Andy Park (#541)
• @Seiken Zeap (#546)
• Nicholas Burman @NRB (#548)
• Bayan Peikari @stymphalides (#560)
• Ahmad Mufid Marhaen @A.M. Marhaen (#564)

Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

With the election certified, it's my pleasure to open seat allocations for the 61st Cosă.

The seats to be allocated are:

¡Avant!: 93 seats ( @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC , @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN )
Progressive Alliance: 63 seats ( @þerxh Sant-Enogat )
Green Party: 27 seats ( @Breneir Tzaracomprada )

As a reminder, the maximum number of seats that can be held by a single MC is 22. Offlist MCs can hold no more than 1/3 of a party's seats collectively, and each can hold at most as many seats as were awarded to a list candidate.

The Independent Conservative did not present a party list and as such, their 17 seats are automatically allocated to @Munditenens Tresplet.

Azul, with a fresh term of the Ziu fast approaching I would like to set out some (mostly minor) changes in procedure. I realise I am a little early but I am likely to forget otherwise. I may also add other minor clarifications before the First Clark begins.


1. Separate voting threads in separate boards; Royal Assent

Quite simply, the Cosă will receive a Cosă-only voting thread in the Cosă board, and the Senate will continue having a Senate-only voting thread in the Senate board. I will open both threads personally - no need for Senators to do so themselves anymore.

The Lobby will still receive a central stickied and locked thread for posting the Clark and redirecting to the two voting threads; this central thread will be unlocked after voting ends so that the King may signify his Royal Assent or Royal Veto to each bill that passed. To comply with Lexh.H.2.6, it is also my intention to provide the King with an enrolled/engrossed(?) PDF of each passed bill that he can print and physically sign, if he so wishes.


2. Electronic voting on the new database

Obviously electronic voting on the Clark will be encouraged and made available. I will personally contact each MZ as soon as they are appointed to ensure everyone has a database account they can use to vote,  and eventually to propose bills directly (and of course to use any other database function as they become available). In general, you should expect the new database to be able to do everything the old one did, and more - feature ideas/requests are always appreciated.


3. Bill handling in the Hopper

The Hopper is only for bills; "ideas" or threads for general discussion will be moved to the Lobby, for the sake of order and of precisely determining Clarking/committee eligibility. You are then of course welcome to post any and all bills who spring up from that idea or discussion to the Hopper.

I will comply with H.2.1.9 and H.2.1.9.1, as I already started doing, by moving any bills that are explicitly withdrawn to the Archive and tagging them "Withdrawn", and similarly with any bills that lay dormant for approximately two months (ie. two Clarking chances declined, so to speak) and tagging them "Abandoned". Please note that withdrawn and abandoned bills carry no prejudice and can simply be re-posted and Clarked again, as those same articles themselves state, except that of course you may not Clark the same bill twice in the same term, generally speaking.

Bills that pass committee* but do not get immediately Clarked will return to the Hopper and be tagged accordingly, so the CRL board always contains only those bills that are actively being examined - as per the above, you effectively have two months to Clark a bill that has passed committee before I consider it withdrawn. You also, of course, may not substantially alter a bill that has passed committee and then directly Clark it.

*: As per H.2.1.6, passing committee means either getting a CRL recommendation, or 30 days in the CRL without recommendation.


4. Minor details about Clarked bills

Government, opposition and private member's bills will continue to be treated the same, but will be numbered in that same order on the Clark (ie. Government bills will receive the lowest numbers, and so on).

The new Database will bring back support for Resolutions of the Senate and Resolutions of the Cosă to be added to the Clark. Previously, RS had been voted on separately and in a few rare occasions, so those are useful and this should hopefully be helpful if only once in five years; of course, RC are not really a thing anymore, but in principle, if you want to Clark an RC, you can. (Actually, I'm now thinking that the VoC would kind of be an RC...)

Results are provisional until certified by the Electoral Commission. An automatic tabulation can be found at https://database.talossa.com/elections/2025-general-elections/results.

A - Elections to the 61st Cosă

PARTY	#	%	/200	Seats
¡Avant!	38	46.34	92.68	93
Progressive Alliance	26	31.71	63.42	63
Green Party	11	13.41	26.82	27
Independent Conservative	7	8.54	17.08	17
(Present)	13
(total not Present)	82	100	198 + 2	200

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B - Elections to the Senate

Atatürk

CANDIDATE	#	%
Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir	10	90.91
Aleksandr Belkin	1	9.09
(total not Present)	11	100

Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir is elected. No further rounds of IRV necessary.

Cézembre

CANDIDATE	#	%
Þerxh Sant-Enogat	8	61.54
Sir Glüc da Dhi	5	38.46
(total not Present)	13	100

Þerxh Sant-Enogat is elected. No further rounds of IRV necessary.

Vuode

CANDIDATE	#	%
Éovart Grischun	5	100
(total not Present)	5	100

Éovart Grischun is elected. No further rounds of IRV necessary.

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C1 - Referendum on 60RZ06

81 votes were cast in favour of ratification, 4 were cast against. 10 voters abstained or left this part blank.

The votes in favour outnumbering the votes against, the referendum is adopted.

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C2 - Referendum on 60RZ21

28 votes were cast in favour of ratification, 38 were cast against. 29 voters abstained or left this part blank.

The votes in favour not outnumbering the votes against, the referendum is not adopted.

Azul all,

you may be aware that my recent career change has been marred by a few issues. The Sixth Clark was conducted entirely on Wittenberg due to issues with the old Database; electoral literature was sent before voting was open in a break from the past; voting itself was opened a few hours later than I would have liked; Innuendo was eliminated from TMT20 all too early; and now a citizen was reassigned to the wrong province.

In truth, I suffer from a serious condition Talossan medical scholars known as ragatzitis. It is caused by a infestation of bedbugs (or rather, one particularly lanky bedbug) which I have yet to understand how to get rid of; offerings of vegan meatballs have not improved the situation and my quality of sleep is worsening. While my condition is debilitating, I still do not think my performance reflects well on what Talossans expect from my position, and that's why I have decided I need a break and for someone more experienced than me to coach me through the duties of my office.

Thankfully, one such person exists and is currently Talossanly unemployed; Duke Ian has gracefully agreed to serve as Deputy Acting Chanceryhead while I seek treatment. He was kind enough to say a few words upon receiving news of his appointment:

March-April 2025 General Election - Wittenberg Polling Station

The General Election is now open, and will remain so until April 1st at 5 PM (17:00) TST (23:00 UTC).

Ballots will be sent shortly after this post is updated. If you don't receive yours, or spot a potential error, you should PM me.

Live turnout (net me getting around to manually enter votes received outside the new Database) can be found here. Election rules can be found here.

HOW TO VOTE

You can vote in either of the following ways:

• by casting an electronic ballot on the Database: https://database.talossa.com/elections/2025-general-elections/vote
• by posting on Wittenberg on the official polling place thread (this one)
• by compiling the PDF ballot included with the ballot email and sending it by email to this same address
• by compiling the PDF ballot included with the ballot email and sending it by post (snail mail) - contact the Secretary of State for instructions

Either way, the first vote I receive is the one that counts. As per the Organic Law, all votes are final, and cannot be retracted, modified or altered in any way: if multiple votes are sent, only the first one is counted. The only exception is that if you vote on the Cosa part, but forgot to vote on the Senate part, you may add your Senate vote before the election deadline


IF YOU'RE VOTING ON WITTENBERG

Remember to vote on all parts of the ballot. If you only specify a party, your vote will only count for the Cosă.

A. Elections to the 61st Cosă
Vote for one of the following parties:

• ¡Avant! (AVANT)
• Progressive Alliance (PROG)
• Green Party (GREEN)
• Independent Conservative (DIEN)

If you do not wish to vote for any, vote PRESENT. Voting for any other party other than those listed above will also spoil this part of your ballot and count as PRESENT.

B. Elections to the Senate
If you are a citizen of Atatürk, Cézembre or Vuode, you are also voting for your next Senator. The following people have declared their candidacy:

• Atatürk: Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir
• Cézembre: Sir Glüc da Dhi and Þerxh Sant-Enogat
• Vuode: Éovart Grischun

This is a ranked vote: You can rank any number of eligible citizens of your province, not limited to those who have declared their candidacy.

C. Organic Referenda
Two referenda are on the ballot:

• 60RZ06, "The Eternally Present (Din Memoriaziun da Ián Tamoran) Act" (text)
• 60RZ21, "The Fixed Electoral Date Amendment" (text)

Vote ÜC/YES, NO/NON or abstain on each.

D. Provincial
Important: check your provincial board first. While the Chancery means to facilitate provincial elections, these are not under its purview and voting threads will normally be opened in your province's board. This comment will be updated to reflect such situations and to redirect you if that becomes the case.

Depending on your province:

• Atatürk: vote for a party to represent you in the House of Commons
• Belacostă: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the Provincial Assembly, AND rank three citizens of Belacostă to elect to the Provincial Council
• Cézembre: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in L'Etats
• Fiovă: rank as many citizens of Fiovă as you like to elect three seats in the Praisidïeu
• Florenciă: vote for a party to represent you in the Nimlet
• Maricopa: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the Cabana
• Maritiimi-Maxhestic: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the Assembly
• Vuode: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the States General

Please use this thread to post issues with voting, feedback, questions, etc.

Azul, as is customary the Chancery will facilitate elections to provincial offices and legislatures by including ballot spaces for all provincial elections and seat claims. The Chancery will not tabulate the results; the raw ballots will be published after the end of the elections, in anonymous form except for the seat claim parts, which will be released separately. It is then up to the various provincial officials to decide if and how to count these ballots according to their electoral law.

Atatürk and Florencia will feature a single field for indicating a (write-in) party vote for the House of Commons and the Nimlet respectively.

Belacostă will receive two ballot spaces: one for the voter to stake a seat claim in the Provincial Assembly, and one for the Provincial Council election (ranked vote, 3 preferences).

Fiovă will receive a single ballot space for the Praisidïeu election (ranked vote, same as Senate).

Cézembre, Maricopa, Mariitimi-Maxhestic and Vuode will receive a single ballot space to stake a seat claim in their respective provincial assemblies.

Note that the process for claiming a seat is usually done by provincial officials with their own methods and timings; some are looser and neatly line up with the General Election's timing, some require specific formulas to be typed out in specific threads. I am very sorry for not being able to contact all relevant officials in advance as I originally wished to; I've made a judgement call to go on including all elections and claims on the ballot, and provincial officials should feel free to use the results or discard them, and to contact me should they wish to include further information on the ballot.

Azul all, with King Txec dissolving the Cosă it falls upon the Chancery to conduct elections to all 200 seats in the 61st Cosă, to Senate seats representing Atatürk, Cézembre and Vuode, and referenda on 60RZ06 and 60RZ21. The Chancery will also facilitate elections to provincial legislatures, as is customary.

The rules governing the election period and all ballot items can be found here. A summary of rules relevant to deadlines and registration follows:

COSĂ PARTY REGISTRATION

Is open now and will remain open until March 13th. Registration can be done by posting in this thread, by PM to me, or by email to the Chancery with the following info:

- Full party name in the preferred national language
- Party leader(s)
- A 50-word statement of the general aims and views of the party
- A list of candidates to receive Cosă seats, or no list.

These must all be provided immediately upon registration but can be amended later up to the deadline (though do so by notifying me, not by editing a previous post because I will not magically notice!).

You may also provide:

- A link to a platform or manifesto
- An alternate party name in the other national language
- A preferred abbreviation or initialism

Registration is provisional until payment of a registration fee of 6¤40 ($10 USD). The fee must be paid to the Treasury before you are able to assign any and all seats your party may have won. Contact Burgermeister Sir @xpb for information on payment.

SENATE CANDIDATE REGISTRATION (AK, CZ, VD)

Is open now and will remain open until March 13th. Registration can be done by posting in this thread, by PM to me, or by email to the Chancery. No additional information is necessary but you will need to be a citizen of the province whose seat you seek to represent.

DEADLINE SUMMARY

Today: Registration for the Cosă opens; submission of statements for/against each referendum opens (only parties with seats in the 60th Cosă)

February 28th (end of day TST): Deadline for provinces to indicate they wish to conduct their Senatorial elections themselves

March 1st February 27th: Registration for the Senate opens (for races conducted by the Chancery)

March 13th (end of day TST): Deadline for Cosă and Senate registrations and referendum statements submission; also deadline for provinces to submit provincial electoral law details for provincial assembly elections

March 15th (morning TST): Voting to open

April 1st (5:00 PM TST): Voting to close

Right, as it's been two weeks from Regeu Txec's proclamation announcing a review in the incumbent Cunstavais, with not a pip from our Cunstaval (predictably enough), I would move on to floating potential nominations for Cunstaval of Belacostă.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to who could be our next Cunstaval? There are lots of great choices I think, and I'm sure King Txec would welcome our input into choosing his next representative in Belacostă.

I noticed RZ20 presently has 80 AUS votes in the Cosa, and might very well end up with fewer than 100 seats voting either PER or CON combined. I don't have a fully formed opinion on this, but I thought it would be interesting to pose a question (well, two questions) to whomever stumbles across this:

- Should a bill require a quorum of each House voting any way (PER/CON/AUS) in order to pass? Why/why not?

- Should a bill require a quorum of each House not abstaining (ie voting either PER or CON combined) in order to pass? Why/why not?

(I'm assuming here that a quorum is a majority of filled seats, so 101 in the Cosa and 5 in the Senate, but I think this is secondary to the questions above)

Azul to all! The Reconstitution Act, having passed both the Assembly and the Senate, now comes before the citizenry of Belacostă for ratification through a provincial referendum. Following precedent, I (as Maestro) shall conduct this referendum, and this thread shall serve as polling station. I shall additionally get in touch with all citizens of Belacostă for which the Chancery has given me contact informations to direct them to this thread.




The referendum vote is now open. By the provisions of Article IX of the proposed constitution, the vote will last (a bit more than) two weeks, and therefore the deadline shall be the same as the deadline for voting on the Sixth Clark, February 21st at 7:30 PM TST (Central). All citizens of Belacostă as of the deadline for voting are eligible to cast their vote.

Voting on the February 2025 Clark (the 6th and final of the 60th Cosă) is now open.

You can find the Clark at: https://wiki.talossa.com/images/0/08/February2025Clark.pdf

You can vote here (MCs) or in the equivalent Senate thread (Senators). For this Clark only, voting will only be accepted as posts on Wittenberg, and not on the Database. The Secretary of State apologizes for the inconvenience. Any members who, for any reason, have difficulty logging in to Wittenberg and/or posting their votes should contact the Chancery's Gmail address (talossachancery).

Voting is open until the 21st of the month, at 19h30 TST.

Senators are allowed to create a single thread in the Senate chamber to post all of the Senate votes that are not cast in this thread. Any votes not posted either using the form above, the current thread or the Senate thread might be ignored and void. Please do not vote by email or private messages.

When you vote, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.




Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Members of the Cosă	Party	Seats	RZ20	RZ21	RZ22	RZ23	RZ24	VoC
Antaglhă X. Someliéir	FreeDems	20	AUS	PER	PER	PER	PER	ÜC
Baron Alexandreu Davinescu	PROG	5	PER	CON	PER	PER	PER	NON
Bentxami Puntmasleu	FreeDems	20	AUS	PER	PER	PER	PER	ÜC
Bråneu Excelsio	COFFEE	20	PER	PER	PER	PER	PER	ÜC
Breneir Tzaracomprada	OPEN	20	CON	PER	PER	PER	PER	NON
Flip Molinar	IND	5
Dame Litz Cjantscheir	IND	20	PER	CON	PER	PER	PER	ÜC
Sir Marcel E. P. Tafial	FreeDems	20	AUS	PER	PER	PER	PER	ÜC
Mic'haglh Autófil	PdR	10	CON	PER	PER	AUS	PER	ÜC
Dame Miestră Schivă	FreeDems	20	AUS	PER	PER	PER	PER	ÜC
Muhammed Yasir	OPEN	10	CON	PER	PER	PER	PER	NON
Munditenens Tresplet	DIEN	20	AUS	CON	PER	PER	PER	ÜC
Sir X. Pol Brigă	PROG	5	PER	CON	PER	PER	PER	NON
Þerxh Sant-Enogat, Túischac'h	PROG	5	PER	CON	PER	PER	PER	NON

Senator	Province	RZ20	RZ21	RZ22	RZ23	RZ24
Sir Martì-Páir Furxhéir	Atatürk	CON	AUS	PER	PER	PER
Iason Taiwos	Belacostă	PER	PER	PER	PER	PER
Glüc da Dhi, Mençei	Cézembre	PER	AUS	PER	AUS	PER
Sir Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h	Fiovă	CON	AUS	PER	PER	PER
Mximo Carbonel	Florenciă	PER	PER	PER	CON	PER
Txoteu Davinescu	Maricopa	PER	PER	PER	PER	PER
Sir Ian Plätschisch	Maritiimi-Maxhestic	AUS	CON	PER	PER	PER
Tric'hard Lenxhéir	Vuode	PER	PER	PER	PER	PER

The call for bills for the February 2025 Clark (the 6th and last of the 60th 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. You may also use the form on the database, available at http://www.talossa.ca/files/propose_bill.php.

I will take any such bills (except for any that fall foul of H.2.7) that are presented between now and the publishing of the Clark, in the TST morning of February 1st.



Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretary of State

Azul! This is the Landing Pier, a venue for visitors from beyond Talossa to congregate.

The Landing Pier mostly operates under standard Wittiquette. In addition:

• Pursuant to Lex.A.15, granting and revoking a visitor account is solely at the discretion of the Seneschal;
• Visitor accounts will be restricted to posting only on this board, receive read-only access to all areas of Wittenberg normally available to a prospective citizen account, and receive a restricted set of permissions;
• Posts on the Landing Pier will be heavily moderated according to Wittiquette and common sense, and the Seneschal (and any delegate) will receive moderation powers over this board.

The Chancery will collect any applications for visitor accounts and forward them to the Government for approval, upon which a successful applicant will be contacted with instruction on how to create a Wittenberg account. Please use the form at the link below to apply for a visitor account:

APPLY FOR A VISITOR ACCOUNT HERE

--Sir Lüc da Schir, Secretary of State

Azul. Pursuant to the Constitution of Belacostă, the roll of the Senate for this (hopefully last) session is as follows:

• @Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP
• Sir Lüc da Schir
• @Flip Molinar
• @Istefan Perþonest
• @Iason Taiwos

Seeing as Mic'haglh is already serving as presiding officer in the Assembly, and as the only foreseeable duty of the President of the Senate will basically be to hold the vote on the Reconstitution Act and then to dissolve the Senate sine die upon adoption of the subsequent referendum, I move that I take the chair as President of the Senate, and that upon the motion being adopted we move immediately to passage of the Reconstitution Act.

To all whom this may concern:

Hear ye, the following.

By the powers conferred upon me as Maestro of Belacostă, I am pleased to award the Order of Belacostă to


for his efforts in reforming the province's constitution and his role in helping Belacostă shed the authoritarian sympathies of this nation's founder.


Done today the 25th of January 2025/XLVI, from the Benitian Capitol, Riverside Sextieir, Garibaldi Canton,

--Sir Lüc da Schir, Maestro of Benito