Antillan Constitutional Convention

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Mr Alexander Burke:

I have two proposals of my own:

 - The authority to organise Parliament shall be vested in a Prime Minister, who shall be elected by a majority of Parliament.
 - The Prime Minister shall have the authority to create and dissolve committees at his discretion. Each bill of legislation must be introduced and passed in the appropriate committee before being introduced in Parliament at large. The party affiliation of the members of each committee must be proportional to the party affiliation of Parliament at large. The authority to organise a committee is vested in the chairman of said committee, who shall be nominated by the Prime Minister and approved of by a majority of the committee he is appointed to chair, and who must also be a member of the committee he is appointed to chair. No man may serve as the chairman of multiple committees, and no man may serve as Prime Minister and chairman of a committee.   

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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?

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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.

I would be absolutely opposed to merging the LP, NP, and PMP, for what it's worth.

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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.

I would be absolutely opposed to merging the LP, NP, and PMP, for what it's worth.

I rather see lose coalitions, then 3 main parties.

This. It would be more interesting to have parties with similar, yet not identical goals be forced to work together to form a majority. Two-party or even three-party systems are boring.

I don't oppose coalitions, I just oppose a coalition with those two particular parties.