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.

Congratulations and good luck!

I would like to nominate the incumbent, þerxh Sant-Enogat.

Sure, and that makes sense. It's a spectrum, though. That's why I was wondering if there were more duties than met the eye.

Ok, thank you!

According to OrgLaw Article III Section 10 :

QuoteThe Senäts shall, after every general election of a senator, choose one of its members to be the President of the Senäts to be called the Mençéi, or in English the Lord President (...)

According to Standing Rules of the Senate, Rule 2

QuoteThe Acting Mençei shall allow for nominations to be lodged for a period of at least a week from the beginning of a term.
Should a Senator receive nominations from a majority of Senators, the nomination period shall end and the Senator be considered duly elected; otherwise, a ballot shall be held using Instant Runoff Voting. Seniority shall resolve any ties that may occur during any stage of elimination.

Therefore I have the pleasure to welcome all nominations in this thread.
You have until Friday December 26th 11:59pm TST to declare your choice.

@Baron Alexandreu Davinescu , @Iason Taiwos , @Eðo Grischun , @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir , @þerxh Sant-Enogat , @mximo , @Béneditsch Ardpresteir , @GV

The idea behind breaking a massive position (such as the Ministry of STUFF) up into smaller pieces is that smaller workloads are more easily handled. This could be done by, say, dividing them between multiple people, or by lightening the "mental workload" if someone has more than one job -- something like executive dysfunction becomes easier to manage when you break things down into smaller tasks.

Combining the Public Records Ministry with some other office would undo that flexibility.