The Nonpartisan SoS Act

[King Txec]

Naturally if this proposal is accepted, I will give moderator powers to all members of the current CRL over the hopper so they can accomplish this goal.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

@mximo Just for your information here is the relevant section of the statute concerning movement of legislation through the CRL:

H6.6. After the CRL has given its recommendation, or if it gives no recommendation within 30 days of the bill having passed to committee, the bill has passed the hopper and the sponsor of the bill may ask for it to be Clarked, with or without amendments.

That thirty day period began when you posted to the CRL on January 6th. So February 5th, 2024 which would make it eligible for the March 2024 Clark presumably.

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

The present bill is related to the functioning of the Chancery, and therefore falls into the scope of the Agreement between TNC and Freedem, which was signed at the start of this 59th Cosa.

The Freedem representatives in the Standing Committee set by this agreement did not agree to push to the Ziu any bill forbidding in the future the simultaneous tenure of the position of SoS and the one of Party Leader.

Honouring its signature on the TNC-Freedem agreement, the TNC will then not Clark the present "Nonpartisan SoS act".

The TNC anyhow deeply regrets that the Freedem representatives did not allow the members of the Ziu to democratically discuss the bill, possibly amend it, and vote on it.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

The Free Democrats of Talossa would like to express our pleasure and gratitude that the incoming Seneschal and the Talossan National Congress are still committed to the Agreement which put the TNC government into office.

There is indeed a fundamental difference in principle between the parties. We agree that there is a real need to make sure that the Secretary of State, the Chancery and the whole Royal Civil Service act without any hint of partisan bias. We do not agree that limiting the civil rights to free association of the Secretary of State are necessary or justifiable in that regard; nor that, when the Secretary of State briefly served as Free Democrats Party President during a crisis, he behaved improperly or even criminally. We deplore the way that this has been brought up over and over again, and the way in which it seems likely to be brought up again in future.

Notwithstanding this, the Agreement between the two parties has proven to be a success, in that frank discussions behind closed doors have led to a far greater mutual understanding of our common ground as well as our differences. We regret that the former Seneschal who negotiated the agreement with us is not around to see this.

The Free Democrats look forward to proposing a bill in the Hopper which will specifically raise higher guardrails against any Chancery or Royal Civil Service official displaying partisan bias. We look forward to more constructive discussion between the two major parties, in public where possible and in private where necessary.