I third the nomination of Sir Marcel Tafial. He's done the job before and he has a great agenda for sharpening up Cosa practice.

20 feels like quite a jump, and I'm a little bit nervous we haven't thought about the downstream implications yet.  I also don't honestly have much of a sense about why we'd want to do this.  I get that you shouldn't be able to buy a seat in the Cosa, but that's more of an argument for getting rid of fees than anything else.

Obviously, the bill would bar small parties from the Cosa.  That doesn't seem like it's necessarily a good thing.  Right now, it seems like a benefit that we get to enjoy a combination of direct democracy and representative democracy.  Other countries aren't so lucky.

The bill would also raise the bar to form a government.  A majority of 20 is 11, so you'd need to assemble 55% of the vote or more.  I don't know that's necessarily good or bad, but we shouldn't overlook it.

New citizens would be wildly more influential.  Right now, they get a token seat so they can jump right in and participate, but now they'd wield much more power.  The temptation to broosk would be much higher -- no vote necessary, just get someone new to join your party and it's the same as getting 5% of the vote.  That seems like it hasn't been thought out very much.

And of course, the Cosa would be less representative of the vote.  This is just an unmitigatedly bad thing.

So I'm not necessarily opposed, and I'm persuadable, but I think we have a lot more thinking to do.

We assign our seats to @Brad Holmes .

Azul, I would like once again to attempt to jump-start provincial politics into action. It has sadly been almost four years since the last executive was formed, and it seems the Constitution doesn't give me any kind of specific power to redress the issue, eg. by appointing a Basbakan myself or exercising direct rule.

Therefore, the only thing I can do for now is to attempt to organise the House of Commons, and pray all party leaders to assign their seats to people outside of their parties, if need be, so that Atatürk can finally elect an executive.

Anyhow, the House of Commons will once again have 20 seats, pursuant to Article II.1 of the Constitution of Atatürk. The most recent election resulted in 4 votes being cast for the Progressive Alliance, 3 for URL and 1 for the Green Party. This therefore translates into a preliminary allocation of 10 seats for the Progressive Alliance, 7(.5) for URL and 2(.5) for the Green Party.

The latter two parties have a preliminary equal claim to the last seat, since II.1 states that:

QuoteThe allocation of the seats amongst political parties will correspond to the percentage of provincial votes each registered party received in the most recent General Election, rounded to the nearest whole number, to be assigned by party leaders, in accordance with Article VI of the Organic Law.

Unfortunately, there is no provision to break ties directly in the Constitution, and the reference to the Organic Law is also presumably a typo, since it's Article IV that contains provisions governing the apportionment of seats. However, if that language in the Constitution is taken to simply suggest the means of apportionment of seats should mirror the Organic Law, then Organic Law IV.2.2 ("The Secretary of State shall employ whatever mathematical formulae and calculations in the apportionment of seats as are set by law...") directs us to El Lexhatx B.15, which states:

Quote15. In the event of a single seat being divided among two or more parties mathematically, the party with the highest number of total votes will be used, [...]

This is also consistent with precedent, in which the exact same result was apportioned identically: https://talossa.proboards.com/thread/11470/house-commons-49th-ziu

In this case, then, the URL is assigned the final seat, and the final allocation is:

- Progressive Alliance, 10 seats @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu 
- Uniun dels Reformistaes Livereschti, 8 seats @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be / @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC 
- Green Party, 2 seats @Breneir Tzaracomprada 

Please assign the 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).

I would like to nominate @GV for Mençéi

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on November 12, 2025, 05:30:03 PMRegular Zoom meetings with the Seneschal and His Majesty together is now leading, while "everyone gets a necklace of mysterious teeth" has fallen far behind.

Okay, so those two turned out to be the winners.  That means that His Majesty will need to warm up his microphone and some of the peers will need to sharpen their swords.

In keeping with our goals of good governance and transparency, this Progressive government will be working to make information about the government more accessible to the people.  To this end, I have begun expanded the TalossaWiki page about the Seneschal's List.  This page has long served as the public list of government offices and office-holders, and now it will be expanded slightly to include important government policies.

Many decisions are made by the government, and only some of them are mandated by statute.  Until now, however, there was no place to see them really written down.  This is not the way things should work.  Instead, these policy decisions should be publicly available in some central space, for the sake of continuity and transparency.

This page will host these important decisions.  We'll want to avoid clutter, so not every little thing will be recorded here, but significant choices about which people might be interested.  A new template was imported to make this possible.  We'll also be flexible about implementing this if it becomes unwieldy.

Relatedly, we will also be adopting a policy of public disclosure.  When significant policies are changed, this will be announced.  This has often happened in the past, but now it's official and it will stay that way.

Please don't hesitate to ask any questions or offer suggestions.

I second the nomination of Sir Marcel Tafial.

Assuming it is not bad form to do so, I would like to nominate myself for the position of Túischac'h.

Azul, with 196 of the 200 elected seats having been filled, we're well over the required threshold for the Cosă to consider the matter of the election of a Túischac'h.

I am therefore pleased to open nominations for the position of Túischac'h, to serve until the dissolution of the 62nd Cosă. (Much like last time, I would ordinarily prefer to invite the outgoing Túischac'h to do so, but for a second time in a row, the last incumbent is no longer sitting in the Cosă.)

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.