Post by Lüc on Nov 2, 2016 18:11:19 GMT 1
Should the Moderate Radical Party of Talossa contest the upcoming Elections to the 50th Cosa, pledging to uphold the following Manifesto? Vote ÜC/NON.
I have rearranged the items (the text has not changed) so that they are sorted better. If opposition to this arises, I'll just revert it back to how it originally was. Please note that all of items have not been changed in their wording (except correcting my "UTal" error), only in their order. If you also have other suggestions re. sorting, don't hesitate to post them.
Voting is open until November 5th.
I have rearranged the items (the text has not changed) so that they are sorted better. If opposition to this arises, I'll just revert it back to how it originally was. Please note that all of items have not been changed in their wording (except correcting my "UTal" error), only in their order. If you also have other suggestions re. sorting, don't hesitate to post them.
Voting is open until November 5th.
On micronations:
On the Senate:
On the Cosa:
On the secret ballot:
The MRPT is happy with the current amendment to introduce a semi-secret ballot, but would like to go one step further and introduce a full automated secret ballot for Cosâ and Senatorial elections, under the condition that a diverse independent committee has access to the admin account to monitor the elections.
On separation of power:
On citizenship and privacy:
On culture and enterprise:
On judicial reform:
The MRPT is committed to reforming the Royal Talossan Bar, in a way that allows competent and dedicated prospective barristers to be admitted to the Bar through a period of apprenticeship and an automated law exam. Unless the Royal Society can guarantee regular, scheduled law courses, attendance and graduation should not be compulsory to seek admission to the Bar. Measures will be sought to ensure that such a reform is reached with broad, nonpartisan consensus.
On the Monarchy:
On the provinces:
On other issues:
- No diplomatic relations with "bug-micronations". The government should not abuse its diplomatic powers.
- The Foreign Ministry should try to investigate what serious, "like minded" "micronations" are currently active and the potential risks and benefits associated with various forms of diplomatic contacts with such nations, within the limits of the Afaes Utphätseschti Act.
On the Senate:
- Party endorsement should not count in any way for Senatorial elections.
- Provinces should be in charge of electing Senators.
- Use of a preferential voting method for senatorial elections conducted by the Chancery.
Introduce a small fee for accepting seats in the Senate.
On the Cosa:
- Introducing mandatory and binding candidate lists for the Cosâ.
- On the long term Talossa needs a Real Cosâ, which will be achieved by a combination of population growth and a decrease in the size of the Cosâ to sixty seats.
- The Seneschal should be elected by the Cosa rather than be appointed by the King. On the long term, the MRPT will consider the possibility of a PM directly elected by the voters.
On the secret ballot:
The MRPT is happy with the current amendment to introduce a semi-secret ballot, but would like to go one step further and introduce a full automated secret ballot for Cosâ and Senatorial elections, under the condition that a diverse independent committee has access to the admin account to monitor the elections.
On separation of power:
- The MRPT believes that on the long term further separation of power is needed.
- Too many offices should not be held by too few people. This can however only be achieved alongside a growth of the population.
- When Talossa has more than 1000 citizens full separation of power between the judiciary, excecutive and legislative should, at least on a national level, be realistic.
On citizenship and privacy:
- The MRPT does not support plans to make immigration laws stricter in the sense that more activity or knowledge from the prospective citizen is required than under the current rules.
- Any contact information received from the prospective by the Immigration Ministry or the Chancery is strictly private and may not be shared with third parties outside the Ministry of Immigration or the Chancery, with the exception of email addresses, which may be shared with the committee to monitor secret ballot elections, and provincial institutions that have tasks similar to that of the Chancery. The list of email addresses should be regularly updated by the chancery.
- The MRPT believes that Talossan citizenship should not prevent Talossans from pursuing their own interests outside Talossa and will protect the right of Talossans to do so. This includes joining micronations.
On culture and enterprise:
- Promoting and protecting Talossan culture, language and traditions.
- The government should not try to do what Talossans can do themselves, but instead stimulate private initiative.
- In most cases, the Government should facilitate and support cultural projects, rather than lead or own them.
- When a project can be completed without any new legislation, it should generally be completed without any new legislation.
- The Ziu should in most cases refrain from endorsing cultural practices as being "Talossan" when there is no evidence the practice is in fact strongly related to Talossan culture.
On judicial reform:
The MRPT is committed to reforming the Royal Talossan Bar, in a way that allows competent and dedicated prospective barristers to be admitted to the Bar through a period of apprenticeship and an automated law exam. Unless the Royal Society can guarantee regular, scheduled law courses, attendance and graduation should not be compulsory to seek admission to the Bar. Measures will be sought to ensure that such a reform is reached with broad, nonpartisan consensus.
On the Monarchy:
- The MRPT is fundamentally monarchist, and supports the hereditary Monarchy. However, we are also committed to taking measures to make the Monarchy more acceptable to the Republican segment of the population and make the Monarchy more accountable to all the people. These measures should include the introduction of a democratic option to remove a Monarch when there is a large public and parliamentary support for such a step.
The veto power of the King over statutes should be converted to a suspensive veto which can be overridden by a supermajority of the Ziu during the same session as the veto was issued, or by a simple majority of the Ziu during the session following the veto subject to a vote of the people in a referendum.
On the provinces:
- Provincial assignment should remain based on actual geographical location.
- Moving permanently across provincial assignment borders should result in a change of province.
- Increasing provincial activity.
On other issues:
- Many provisions of the Organic Law would be better suited as part of Statutory Law.
- Promote the development and expansion of a formal National Honours System for the purposes of providing a mechanism of recognition for civic contributions & service to our nation.
- The Talossan government should start paying for its own web presence.
