The concern is about E.2

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on April 28, 2025, 05:02:19 PM2. Should any ballot list fewer than three choices for Provincial Consul, the citizens listed shall be presumed to start with the first choice and descend from that point.

However, according to the Belacostăn constitution:

QuoteSec. 2. The Provincial Council will be elected from among the citizens of the Province at each Cosă election, via a positional vote. Voters will name their first-, second-, and third-choice candidates. [...]

Now in many cases of positional voting being used it is not allowed to not rank the required number of candidates. Giving points to more than one candidate also affects the electoral prospects of the first choice candidate. My reading of the constitution would be that it does not allow for fewer than three candidates to be ranked.

My reading of this proposal is that it would allow fewer than three candidates being ranked and therefore contradicts the constitution. I suspect if such votes were to be counted affected candidates could have a valid case for a lawsuit based on the constitution.

I'm interested to hear if the assembly shares this concern

Thank you S;reu Autófil. I have read the bill. I am inclined to approve. I do however have one concern about the proposal, about which I would like to confer with His Majesty. Im also interested in the views of the assembly on this matter. I'd also like to confer with His Majesty more generally about the delegation of royal powers with regards to Belacostă. So those are the reasons for any delay, but know that I'm working on this.

eXcellent! Let's get out of that cesspit

Minor detail though: Senator - Cézembre, not Senator - Prog ;)

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Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on March 16, 2025, 06:52:02 PMJust butting in here, but since this is the only Senäts debate going on: what would your attitudes be to the proposal which I think the current SoS has previously championed, i.e. a "deprovincialised Senäts" with 4 (or 3?) Senators elected every Cosa term on a Kingdom-wide basis? That would surely deal with the terrible problem we have at the moment where the majority of Senäts elections are uncontested because both the parties, and active citizens, are very unevenly distributed between provinces

I could see myself supporting this, but it really depends on the details. Most importantly, how are you going to elect these senators? There are a lot of pitfalls that could make this worse than what we have now. STV seems like the obvious choice, but this is quite complex, both in terms of excecution and correctly writing it into law. If that is something that can be overcome then maybe it could work, but that's a big if

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Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 18, 2025, 06:04:31 PMI simply do not believe your argument that the independent and thoughtful consideration of people like Ian and Gluc hasn't affected the course of policy.

Heh, I have a sense that my independent and thoughtful considerations are about to get kicked out of the senate pretty soon, but thanks for the compliment anyway :p

On what basis is this proposal called "Consensus Plan on Reform"?

One issue with the senate in its current form I forgot to mention earlier (although it has been mentioned many times before) and which is a big reason I'm open to reform is that provinces all have the same (1) number of senators, but different number of citizens. That means that citizens in smaller province are relatively better represented in the senate.

That is unfair in itself but it also has unfortunate side effects for the provinces, because we now are forced to design these so that they all have roughly similar immigration, or risk representation becoming even more skewed. In particular, there are good arguments to be made that certain provinces could become more vibrant if they merged, but this always causes an immediate problem because then the citizens of those provinces would give up half of their representation in the senate. Regardless of what direction we want to go with provinces, this debate is always gonna be overshadowed by 'what does this mean for national politics' and that's really not great.


But again, while I'm open to reform, any new system needs to find a way to include these checks and balances that having two house of parliament provides, so straight abolishing the senate with no replacement wouldn't be something I'd support.

Even though Im not a member of Avant, I'm still flattered by the endorsement. Much appreciated.

My opponent provided some interesting questions for me in his campaign thread. You can read my answers in his campaign thread. In the meantime, @þerxh Sant-Enogat I hope you don't mind if I have some questions for you as well.

1. Senators unlike MCs don't represent a party, but a province. Of course you are also the leader of a party. How do you see the balance between representing all the citizens of Cézembre and your partisan interests? As an example, suppose your party enters into a coalition at some point in the future and agrees to a coalition agreement as a part of that. Would you feel bound to vote in accordance with the coalition agreement even on items you personally disagree with? Are there any issues on which you disagree with your party and if so, which ones?

2. Would you be willing to sponsor a sense of the Ziu requesting the government to stop official communications on the site formerly known as twitter?

3. During the 59th Cosa you were PM for the TNC. The TNC signed an agreement preventing MZs from sponsoring amendments to the Organic Law unless approved by a multipartisan committee. How do you reflect on this and is this something that might happen again?

4. What are your thoughts on the CRL and other idea relating to improving quality of legislation and increasing debate and scrutiny on major reforms?

I have more questions, but I had stop myself here for now ;)

Thank you for your question. I'm interested to hear your view on these topics as well. I will also respond with some questions of my own in the other thread :)