Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Yesterday at 09:57:54 PMNot true. The URL stands ready to [campigning]. We are willing to [campaigning] re: [campaigning]. However, the recent [campaigning] [campaigning] to indicate [campaigning].

Welp, I guess this idea's already dead.

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on Yesterday at 07:04:37 PMThese two parties won't be able to form a majority without some kind of reconciliation, which neither seems willing to do.

Not true. The URL stands ready to accept any invitation from the Progressive Alliance to renewed negotiations on a confidence/supply deal. We are willing to let "bygones be bygones" re: the recent unpleasant election campaign. However, the recent "Leader's Statement" from the PA seem to indicate that the same does not go for them.

The idea isn't so much strengthening individuals as it is to get new parties without pre-existing rivalries to join the Cosă, while giving the existing parties a chance to cool off and take a break from each other, if you like. That last bit is covered by excluding current members of existing political parties from forming or joining new parties.

Strengthening the role of individuals at the expense of parties in the Cosă is an interesting concept, but I'm not sure what you're proposing would necessarily get us there, simply because the current voting system forces voters to choose from pre-selected slates of candidates, and the fact that parties hand out slices of the Cosă to people of their choosing. What I mean by that is you can very easily end up with some candidate you really like on the same slate as a candidate you detest, with the prefered candidate receiving a much smaller slice of power than the detestable one, making it difficult to commit to that slate.

Individualising the Cosă would require some pretty hefty rewrites of the OrgLaw and election-related Lexhatx that would probably take several general elections and referenda to properly implement. But I am open to it on principle, and I have a bit of research and experimentation of my own into this stuff in the past... it's worth considering at the very least.

Doesn't seem like a bad idea.

I don't quite understand the logistics, but I'm open to the idea in general.

So, it seems to me that Talossan politics is pretty fractured. The two main parties hate each other enough that one of them nearly formed a government with and gave a cabinet position to an antidemocrat.

These two parties won't be able to form a majority without some kind of reconciliation, which neither seems willing to do. Thus, however the deadlock gets resolved, I'd like to propose the following.

Whenever elections are next held, I propose that every currently extant party in Talossa agree to suspend their campaigns for a period of one Cosă term, with every person seeking membership in the Cosă for that term who normally does so under the banner of a currently extant party instead running as individuals, and every such member thereafter voting according to their conscience, rather than their party affiliation.

I am not currently a member of any political party and have nothing to gain from any party's accession to this agreement. I'm just thinking a reset of some sort wouldn't go amiss.

Anyway, all this discussion seems pointless.

If I were an ordinary PA member, or even Txec Fortupt the Talossan who knows nothing about politics, I would read AD's document and think "... why are they voting? It's an obvious choice! They get confidence and supply for free from someone who's not even going to be politically active; or they do a deal with these URL guys who are apparently the nastiest pieces of work on the planet. Door Number 1, Alex!"

I can't imagine anyone would read that and not vote for the Zero Strings Attached Deal with the absolute monarchist theocrat. AD gives absolutely no reason in the document why a deal with the URL would be desirable in any way.

WHAT is my name?

Mximo Malt.

WHAT is my request?

If it so please the Squirrel King of Arms, I request the assistance of the College in designing and obtaining arms for myself and my lawful heirs.

WHAT is my favourite colour?

Purple.

So since I appear to be the ONLY person to have claimed a seat this term does that mean I have to be the Premier AND the Presiding Officer?