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Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on Yesterday at 10:06:35 AMI will be stepping away. Good luck to everyone.

Why? I hope you're ok...

Because I sometimes get a little depressed and when I do I get grouchy and I just need to back away. I'll leave my team up, not like I have to do anything with it just not going to be commenting

Never heard anything back from @Nicolás Masquiarán-Díaz ?

Indeed it is! I'm plum exhausted most of the time right now!

-Txec R

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Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on Yesterday at 11:10:45 AMAugust ended without action by anyone vested with royal authority. Under the precedent set during the years of King John that Organic amendments fall under the same conditions as regular bills regarding royal inaction, I hold that this bill has passed into law.

Because Article VII of the Belacostan Constitution does not require referenda for constitutional amendments, it therefore takes effect immediately.

My apologies on this. I was waiting on my Cunstaval but I also didn't circle back to double check.

-Txec R

Not a problem, Your Majesty. It's a busy time of year for you, if I'm not mistaken!

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on Yesterday at 10:06:35 AMI will be stepping away. Good luck to everyone.

Why? I hope you're ok...

Mr. Speaker,

This enquiry is for the Foreign Affairs minister @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir

Referencing her reply from last month:

Quote from: Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir on August 09, 2025, 01:29:02 AMFirstly, the member opposite seems to have gone against their own rules of one terp per minister per month, so this feels like harassment territory.

With BHAID, whatever plans we may or may be making, it is too early to release information on that. Also I would disagree that the individual doing as the opposite member said is "popular" and more like a weed in Talossan politics that is self serving and seems to only care about the "prestige" of setting up the organisation but doesn't truly care about the work, as with a charitable organisation, you don't get involved or use it to make anyone look good, but for the people or is there to help, so making a big deal out of something by constantly framing it as "something I created" is something that member of the public mentioned by the member opposite seems gross as cheap as it is detracting from the work BHAID does and turning it into a personal trophy to show off.

Now that it might be reasonable to conclude it is no longer "too early," what plans, if any, does the Ministry have to celebrate the laudable legacy of the Bureau for Humanitarian Aid and International Development?

Mr. Speaker,

I hope your strategic retirement is going well you are missed around these parts.

This question is for the Avocat-Xheneral @M:sr Pôl dal Nordselvă, D.Div, M.Ed

Mr. A-X, a few months ago you mentioned conducting a review of statutory and Organic laws for opportunities at streamlining. What updates are there in your review?

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on Yesterday at 11:10:45 AMAugust ended without action by anyone vested with royal authority. Under the precedent set during the years of King John that Organic amendments fall under the same conditions as regular bills regarding royal inaction, I hold that this bill has passed into law.

Because Article VII of the Belacostan Constitution does not require referenda for constitutional amendments, it therefore takes effect immediately.

My apologies on this. I was waiting on my Cunstaval but I also didn't circle back to double check.

-Txec R

S:reu:

I thank the minister for his response.  I am also grateful for the detailed analysis, even though I disagree with some of the conclusions.  Here are your numbers:

61st Cosă: 1
60th Cosă: 6
59th Cosă: 11
58th Cosă: 8
57th Cosă: 8
56th Cosă: 2
55th Cosă: 4
54th Cosă: 4
53rd Cosă: 3
52nd Cosă: 9
51st Cosă: 6
50th Cosă: 18

Looking at the numbers, I think it might be a good idea to set aside an attempt at a just-so story to explain everything.  This is a complicated question, capturing a lot about the state of our country and its governance.  Let's at least start out by focusing on the bottom line.

So, as a supplementary question, would you tell me if you agree that this is a fair way to describe the trendline:

The immigration rate badly slumped during the 53rd Cosa.  This slump continued for several terms, reaching a nadir during the 56th Cosa.  After that, the immigration rate improved over the succeeding three Cosas.  It peaked again during the 59th Cosa, but it has since badly slumped again.

Is that accurate?  I know it doesn't capture all of the subtleties, and that we can tell all kinds of stories to explain it, but I want to be sure that we agree on just the actual trend in this data.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on September 03, 2025, 12:20:18 AM

• 57th Cosă: 8/66 = 12%
• 58th Cosă: 8/86 = 9%
• 59th Cosă: 11/62 = 18%
• 60th Cosă: 6/69 = 9% (While the application numbers from the 60th Cosă as recorded in Infotecă appear to be accurate, the naturalization numbers appear to have a clerical error or two, so I arrived at a count of six simply by counting on the Database. I do intend to review the Infotecă numbers more thoroughly in the near future.)
• 61st Cosă through August: 1/43 = 2.3%

There are a few things to note:

• There are two citizenship petitions (Julian Da Silva and Nicolás Masquiarán-Díaz) currently pending response from the prospectives in question to the Chancery. If both of those successfully naturalize, the 61st Cosă rate will rise to 3/43 = 7%, significantly more in line with previous terms.
• The 59th Cosă's outlier percentage rate is partially driven by the lower number of applications.
• The 60th Cosă, which of course saw a Government largely identical to the current one, saw a similar percentage of applicants naturalize as both the 57th and 58th Cosas.
• A corollary to the previous point is that the largely static immigration policy between the 60th and 61st Governments is not the source of the reduced naturalization rate.
• In other words, as most of the country has been able to figure out so far, something else must be at play here.

One likely cause that has been cited by people across the political spectrum is the particularly divisive atmosphere in Talossan politics at the moment, to the point that even MC's from the Member opposite's party have expressed concern at the vitriol that he is intent on maintaining.

S:reu:

I thank the minister for his forbearance and his research.  I disagree with his conclusion, since it seems  to me that the immigration rate would be a lagging indicator in some respects.  A lot is going to depend on current events, but any aspect that relies on a change in governance is not going to be reflected in the numbers in the same month.  This isn't always true, but probably it's largely so.

I have been very happy to see some movement on addressing this issue with the urgency it requires, including implementing one of the changes that the Progressive Party has called for.  We hope to continue to push for even more change.

I do not agree that criticism of my elected Government is "vitriol," although I do recognize that it might feel that way if you're being criticized.  It's important to have an Opposition that advocates for change and holds the people in power accountable.