What's the point of having Regions if we aren't going to explore the issue of co-sovereignity? We certainly don't have enough people to have State governments, but with the inititaive process all of our Regions use so that the Regional legislature is the people, I think we have enough people to support Regional government. That said, this decision threw out the baby with the bathwater, so we need to adopt a new baby soon.
The idea was to have an additional office to run for, give some more semblance to the US.
That was really the whole idea behind the Senate, too...there once was a proposal that every registered voter would be considered a Representative unless elected or appointed to something else.