Congratulations and welcome, @Glüc da Dhi S.H. !

Huzzah!

My sincerest apologies. The vote tallies and the record of individual votes have both been corrected.

Voting is closed. With a vote of 4-1, the amendment has successfully cleared the necessary 3/5 threshold required by Belacostă law *and* the 2/3 threshold required by OrgLaw IX.4.5, and is therefore duly adopted.

In the absence of an active Cunstaval, @King Txec is now called upon to officially proclaim the new Constitution.

At least two former Seneschals from the next province on the alphabetical order!

Voting on the Clark is over.

Both the Cosă and the Senate have passed the following bills:

60RZ20 – The Judicial Retirement Retirement Act
Agreed to by the Cosă 55-40 (100 abstained), by the Senate 5-2 (1 abstained)

60RZ21 – The Fixed Electoral Date Amendment
Agreed to by the Cosă with the required supermajority, 140-55, by the Senate 4-1 (3 abstained)

60RZ22 – The Immigration Reform (No Minister's Pets) Bill
Agreed to by the Cosă 195-0, by the Senate 8-0

60RZ23 – The Knights of Ni Act
Agreed to by the Cosă 195-0, by the Senate 6-1 (1 abstained)

60RZ24 – The Digital Terpelaziuns Act
Agreed to by the Cosă 195-0, by the Senate 8-0

The Cosă passed a Vote of Confidence in the incumbent Government 150-45.

Flip Molinar MC did not vote.



Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Right, I now recall "Parti Tafialistà" always had the diacritics the wrong way around in my mind.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 20, 2025, 11:35:34 PM@Sir Lüc Mr. Secretary, would you be so kind as to change the name of our party board to Green Party?

On it!

(Btw, the correct Talossan translation would be "El Partì Virt")

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.

Thank you Regeu Txec. I'm eager to serve the province of Atatürk to the best of my ability.

Azul all. I have presented the Electoral Commission with a proposed set of rules to govern the upcoming General Elections. You can find my proposal at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oC-TZHltB2bU7gWtEUF5bbkA_R3DwXRRBb0Z4Q3I5AA/edit?usp=sharing

Please note that this set of rules is still provisional and subject to amendment and certification by the Electoral Commission.

For the record I'm of two minds on this;

on one hand it would be odd to let a bill pass on a handful of PER votes (even 1 PER, 0 CON and 199 AUS/no show, in the case of my first question, or 51 PER, 50 CON, 99 AUS/no show, in the second);

on the other hand it would also be unfair to have AUS count the same as CON if abstaining meant denying a quorum, in the event a quorum was defined as in my second question (so, say, a bill with 51 PER, 50 CON and 99 AUS/no show would pass, but a bill with 51 PER, 49 CON and 100 AUS/no show would not; this evidently would change how people vote).

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)

What an odd comment. I don't see why someone who's had a busy past few months in their day to day life wouldn't be a citizen anymore.

I vote Per.