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Region: The Thaecian Senate
In essense these Amendements try to do a good thing, namely updating clauses concerning parties. Political parties have indeed become less significant and less important, but that does not mean they, or some parts of these Amendements, should simply get one look at to be judged.
The first line to be removed talks about coalitions, which have become something that doesn't happen anymore these days, so I support it.
In the second part I think something has been looked over when editing the text however. While parties only putting forward one candidate for Speaker of Chairperson is something I would stand behind normally, but this rarely ever happens so it can be glossed over, but it is the sentence before that which concerns me. For what reason should the way the Speaker and Chairperson are elected by their respectable House not be specified? Now already is there more than often confusion about what type of majority they need for that! Removing this from the Constitution straight up does not make sense. That is why I propose Amendement A:
Each chamber will be led by one Senator/Member of Parliament in the caucus of the ruling coalition, where the ruling coalition is the coalition whose sum of the number of seats of the parties in the coalition is greater than half of the total number of seats in that chamber as determined by a vote amongst the chamber representatives. The intern election to determine the chamber leader(s) shall be hosted by the Electoral Commission after the inauguration of the Congress representatives upon the conclusion of a general election and midterm election for the House of Commons. The Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate shall have the power to determine their chamber's agenda. Both roles are chosen by a simple majority vote by the members of the respective chambers. Parties can only put forward one candidate for the chambers leadership elections. In the event in which no candidate is tied, but at the same time no candidate received more than 50% of the votes, a run-off is held between the two candidate who received the most votes.
The last of actually three Amendements here talks about the ballots. Now just as a reminder for some who might have forgotten, but as of now, Thaecians have rights. Rights to speak their minds. Rights to join a political party. Rights to challange government. Rights to run in elections. And those are just a few. This Amendement is not so bold to directly break into Thaecian rights, but it does undermine them. When Thaecians want to join a political party, then let them; do not undermine this by removing what they worked for from the ballot. Be it running as an independent or as a member of a party, people should be allowed to be proud and open about that, to speak their minds about that. When Thaecians identify with the membership- or non-membership- of a party, then that is part of their identity in this region. And if your concern is that people won't vote for you because you are running as independent and not as a member of a party, then campaign harder and convince people so you won't need "the support of everyone from your party", since that is somehow an argument I have seen used for this. I, again, propose an Amendement:
Pap sculgief and Marvinville
