You could also vote for me as senator if you want to

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Just butting in here, but since this is the only Senäts debate going on: what would your attitudes be to the proposal which I think the current SoS has previously championed, i.e. a "deprovincialised Senäts" with 4 (or 3?) Senators elected every Cosa term on a Kingdom-wide basis? That would surely deal with the terrible problem we have at the moment where the majority of Senäts elections are uncontested because both the parties, and active citizens, are very unevenly distributed between provinces

I would rather keep the provincial system, and set up a number of votes per senator, or a number of senators, according to the population of each province

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

I would rather keep the provincial system, and set up a number of votes per senator, or a number of senators, according to the population of each province

Which overlooks the specific point I made:

the terrible problem we have at the moment where the majority of Senäts elections are uncontested because both the parties, and active citizens, are very unevenly distributed between provinces

[Glüc]

Just butting in here, but since this is the only Senäts debate going on: what would your attitudes be to the proposal which I think the current SoS has previously championed, i.e. a "deprovincialised Senäts" with 4 (or 3?) Senators elected every Cosa term on a Kingdom-wide basis? That would surely deal with the terrible problem we have at the moment where the majority of Senäts elections are uncontested because both the parties, and active citizens, are very unevenly distributed between provinces

I could see myself supporting this, but it really depends on the details. Most importantly, how are you going to elect these senators? There are a lot of pitfalls that could make this worse than what we have now. STV seems like the obvious choice, but this is quite complex, both in terms of excecution and correctly writing it into law. If that is something that can be overcome then maybe it could work, but that's a big if