Hear, hear!  They are amazing individuals and Talossans.

To my knowledge, this has never happened before.  I would suggest that @Breneir Tzaracomprada can advise about how he thinks his seats should be reassigned, and should such advice be neither unreasonable nor churlish, it could be accepted.  He and one other voter chose his party to represent them in the Cosa, so presumably he's the best-equipped to suggest who in the country will champion similar interests.  It need not be a current MC, of course.

Well this is certainly an interesting thing to come up. Has any previous King ever had to make a decision about vacant seats like this? This feels like uncharted waters for sure. I will give this some thought, but I would welcome the input of any MZ or interested citizen. I'll give a decision in a couple days.

-Txec R

This has been a trying week for Talossa's web infrastructure.  A PHP vulnerability combined with a lot of behind-the-scenes work tasks, and each one was met quickly and competently by the Secretary of State, Sir Lüc da Schir, and the Minister of Technology, Danihel Txechescu.

Most citizens never see this work.  When it's done well, nothing seems to happen -- the sites stay up, the data stays safe, and the business of the Kingdom carries on.  That's exactly what happened this week, and it happened because two people gave their own time to make sure of it.

Their work hasn't stopped at keeping the lights on, either.  Even while putting out fires, both have kept adding new features and improvements to our national web presence, and the Kingdom is better for it.

On behalf of the Government and the nation, I offer them our sincere thanks.

Signed,
Seneschal Alexandreu Davinescu, Baron Davinescu del Vilátx Fréiric

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Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 10:03:01 PMIf you run out of things to write in Talossan, we could use a translation of The Cézembre Conundrum: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?msg=33657

Thanks for the recommendation.

I was wondering whether the Organic Law has already been translated to Talossan.

I think it was intended to be, at least when it got its last major revision in 2017-19, but ultimately no. (Fwiw, it does get amended a couple times a year.)

Yup. I suppose we didn't take anything offline, and maybe we should have, but I can confirm it's been patched as soon as possible.

Right, I hoped for some feedback (particularly from the Government, which is the centerpiece of the event), but we're gonna go with that minimal program for now, and leave open the floor after the rebuttal for further comments on the Speech, addresses on other matters, or for members who wish to debate bills in the Hopper.

We will attempt to conduct the State Opening on our own platform: the link will be https://riunetz.talossa.com/StateOpening.

Save the date: Sunday, October 25th, at 9 PM Central European / 8 PM British / 4 PM Eastern / 3 PM TDT-Central / 1 PM Western / 9 AM NZDT (of Monday 26th) - https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20261025T200000&p1=157&p2=158

Everyone is welcome to attend, but MZs are especially encouraged to do so. Tagging MZs: @xpb @Françal I. Lux @Duke John @Moinul Moin @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP @Tåltind Furxheir (Ethan Smith) @Barclamïu da Miéletz @mpf @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @þerxh Sant-Enogat @GV @mximo @Béneditsch Ardpresteir @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu @Eðo Grischun and a separate note for @Breneir Tzaracomprada who is still legally the Leader of the Opposition and is entitled to give the rebuttal, but not to take part in any further debate nor to make any motions.

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 10:03:01 PMIf you run out of things to write in Talossan, we could use a translation of The Cézembre Conundrum: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?msg=33657

Thanks for the recommendation.

I was wondering whether the Organic Law has already been translated to Talossan.

The 7 seats from the Independent Progressive are now vacant following ex-MC Tzaracomprada's resignation.

Following the Democracy Amendment's ratification, we're in a novel situation, so let's do this step by step. OrgLaw IV.3 states:

QuoteIn the case of vacant party seats occurring between elections, the Secretary of State shall inform the King and the leader of whatever party held the vacant seat.

I am doing so now: @King Txec and @Breneir Tzaracomprada

QuoteThe Secretary of State shall redistribute all of that party's seats among the remaining eligible candidates on that party's list in the same manner described in the second section, above. If no eligible candidate remains on that party's list, whether by vacation, ineligibility, or the operation of the maximum seats provision, the King may assign the seat according to his own best judgment, or leave it vacant.

By my reading there are neither any "remaining" nor "eligible" candidates, since the Independent Progressive's party list consisted of just S:r Tzaracomprada, and the next sentence states that "vacation" is one of the reason for ineligibility. So I can't automatically redistribute any seats, which is convenient, because we have previously determined that the previous section is partially inoperable (we don't have ordered party lists yet - not that it would have mattered in this specific case.)

So it falls to His Majesty to reassign the 7 seats according to His best judgment, before the Second Clark, or to leave them vacant.

Do we have a Zoom link for the State Opening yet?

Thanks

-Txec R