Antillan Constitutional Convention

[Insula Dei]

OOC: Uhm, I was under the impression that the game sort of tacitly assumed that the nation had been going steadily for some amount of time already. Wouldn't that sort of make an IC Constitutional Convention self-defeating?

[Insula Dei]

OOC: Uhm, I was under the impression that the game sort of tacitly assumed that the nation had been going steadily for some amount of time already. Wouldn't that sort of make an IC Constitutional Convention self-defeating?

Well, we could pretend the constitution that results from this convention is the one we've been using for hundreds of years, couldn't we?

That's a way around that, yes.

[Insula Dei]

Ooc: wouldn't you all much rather have me, out of convention, appoint the leader of the majority party or coalition or person most likely to have a working govt to form a govt in the kings name? Otherwise your pm is like a speaker. Which is sort of true but sort of isn't.

I'm with Bullmoose on that one.

[Insula Dei]

ooc:Current party standings in terms of active members:

SDP : 4
PNP: 3
Liberal: 1
PMP: 1
National Patriot: 1
Co-op: 1

I do suppose that folding the Liberal, PMP and NP parties into one centrist to centre-rightwing party wouldn't be too bad an idea (?) And the Pitfarrian nationalist cause is very well represented right now.

So in terms of the government, I think we're currently seeing the last months of a SDP-Co-op government, with elections imminent.

[Insula Dei]

Some random numbers for our parliament... let's say a parliament of 150 seats. This isn't a big country, after all. As for parties... I think we have to have an unclear election result, right? At least to start with. So...

Social Democrats - 54
Popular Movement Party* - 31
Liberal Party** - 23
Pitfarris Nationalist Party - 22
Cooperative Party - 14
Independents - 4
National Patriot Party - 2

Which gives us a parliament without a natural majority and with significant representation for a very wide range of interests.

*I'm assuming that this is Conservative or Christian Democratic in some way.
**I'm assuming that these guys will be fairly right-wing as well.

I agree with you on the order of magnitude you give all the parties right now. This does look a lot like Sweden now, doesn't it?