A2305.02 |
Legislators of the South Pacific,
There has been a seconded motion to repeal the Political Parties Act . The debate thread can be found here .
INFORMATION
This is a repeal of general legislation , according to the Legislative Procedure Act requiring a majority greater than 50% to pass. The voting period will be 3 days, thus concluding on Sat May 13 2023 09:00:00 UTC (10:00 in London, 05:00 in New York, 19:00 in Sydney).
(2023-05-10T09:00:00Z →2023-05-13T09:00:00Z )
IMPORTANT
Please vote by poll if possible. If you cannot vote by poll, post ‘Aye’, ‘Nay’ or ‘Abstain’ in this thread. Please do not vote both by poll and by post. Comments and discussions belong in the debate thread and should be posted there.
The text of the bill is as follows:
Political Parties Act
An act outlining political parties and their benefits
1. Defining Political Parties
(1) A political party is any group of people in the South Pacific, counting at least as many members as senior Cabinet officials, who organize together in an official association for political or electoral purposes.
(2) Associations for purposes other than politics, including satirical, social, or casual groups, do not qualify as political parties under this act.
2. Rights of Political Parties
(1) Political parties have the right to exist without undue government interference, per the freedom of assembly guaranteed in Article III of the Charter.
(2) Political parties have the right to engage in coordinated legislative and electoral efforts, without fear of reprisal from any government official.
(3) Political parties have the right to conduct business in private, without the arbitrary interference of the government or arbitrarily being compelled to publish private communications.
3. Benefits to Active Political Parties
(1) Political parties that maintain an accurate public membership roster, and field at least one member for public office in an election per year, qualify for a dedicated public and private subforum.
(2) Political parties may petition the Chair of the Assembly for approval for a subforum. The Chair of the Assembly will verify the qualifications of the party, and if the party meets those qualifications, notify the Off-Site Administration Team to create the party’s dedicated subforums.
(3) Dedicated party subforums will consist of two parts–
a. a public subforum, where the party must pin an up to date version of its membership roster;
b. a password-protected subforum, which will have the necessary permissions to ensure non-members cannot read threads without authorization.
(4) All political party subforums are to be contained within a single catch-all forum designated for political parties in an appropriate forum section of the official offsite forums of the South Pacific.
(5) The subforums of political parties are to be sorted by order of registration.
4. Archival of Inactive Subforums
(1) The Off-Site Administration Team will non-destructively archive political party subforums if the requirements listed in Article 3 are no longer met.
(2) Inactive political parties may petition the Chair of the Assembly for revival of their archived subforums, under the same process outlined in Article 3.
Should this previously passed law be repealed?
A2305.02 | Passed
This repeal required a 50% majority of votes in favour, excluding abstentions, to pass. The results are tabled as follows:
Type
Tally
Percentage of Vote
Final Percentage
Ayes 18
42.9%
56.3%
Nays 14
33.3%
43.8%
Abstentions 10
23.8%
Total 42
65.6% of Legislators
Absent 22
34.4% of Legislators
In light of these results, the proposal passes
Vote has passed , this thread no longer needs to be open.
