NiT - A LatAm Political Roleplay (Parliament)

[Madrinpoor]

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The Out Of Character • The Discord

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PARLIAMENT MAKEUP

GOVERNING COALITION:

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SEATS:

TOTAL: 300

OJS - 64
MRN - 64
MPL - 59
UNE - 33
LAB - 29
PDC - 25
PLP - 23
CRM - 5
SaNa - 4
PMN - 2

THE PARLIAMENT IS the primary voice of the people — and one of the most powerful political institutions in Carbania. Here, MPs draft laws, debate on laws, agree on compromises to their proposed laws while drunk, and then vote on the laws. Every law that is passed by a majority of the legislature (151 votes) will go to the President's desk — if the President signs the law, it goes into effect; if the President vetoes the law, then Parliament must abandon it, change it, or overrule the President by a two-thirds majority.

The leader of the Parliament is the PRIME MINISTER, and they are the head of the governing coalition (and must be an MP). Coalitions can change and form at will, but must either have a majority of seats (151) or run a Minority Government, which is simply the largest coalition able to be formed. If the coalition breaks apart, a vote can be called for a snap election — if a majority agree, the election will be held two weeks from that point.

The governing coalition in Parliament has the power to appoint the cabinet, and to impeach the President. Cabinet members can be sitting MPs but do not have to be. If an impeachment is called for, then Parliament will vote — that vote takes immediate priority over all other votes, and if a two-thirds majority vote in favor of impeachment then the Supreme Court decides if the President has broken a law egregious enough to be removed.

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[align=center][size=200]A Bill[/size]
[size=135][NAME and ABBREVIATION][/size][/align][hr][/hr]

[Summary of what the bill does, no need to be fancy]

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Parliamentary Procedure

MOTIONS:

• Bring up a bill - Choose a bill in the docket to debate, vote on, or table.
• Table a bill - Take a bill off the docket — a tabled bill could be put back on the docket, but while it is tabled it cannot be voted on, changed, or debated.
• Vote on a bill - Proceed to a vote on a bill.
• Debate a bill - Have a Q&A or an actual debate over a bill — please specify. The Prime Minister can decide how long this debate will last.
• Object - Make known your opposition to a motion. If a motion is objected to, but not seconded, then it fails. Any one MP can do this.
• Second - Make known your support for a motion. If a motion is objected to and seconded, then it succeeds. Any one MP can do this.

[Madrinpoor]

Bills on the Docket:

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President's Desk:

Enacted Legislation:


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Legislation at Vote: ---[/url]

NEEDED: 151
Yea:
Nay:
Present:

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

In compliance with the NATIONAL DEMOCRACY COMPACT of 2018, the Carbania National Unity Government held parliamentary elections on 30 April 2022.

With the conclusion of said parliamentary elections, Carbania now has a democratically elected body capable of exercising sovereignty on behalf of the Carbanian people of which its power is ultimately derived. This transition will take the form of this body, by majority vote, agreeing to the following act:

Carbanian Parliamentary Transitional Governance Framework Act of 2022

1. The Office of Prime Minister of Carbania

A. The Prime Minister of Carbania is the individual who's most recently received a confirmatory vote for the office of prime minister from a sovereign majority. A sovereign majority is defined as a majority of seats elected to the Carbanian parliament. Any Member of Parliament is permitted to put forward a confirmatory vote for the office of prime minister.

B. Upon a failure of a confirmatory vote for the office of Prime Minister to deliver a Sovereign Majority, further confirmatory votes for the office of prime minister are prohibited until the next session of parliament.

C. A session of Parliament begins when a number of MPs equal to a sovereign majority are present in the Parliament of Carbania, and concludes when the number of Members of Parliament in the Parliament of Carbania falls below a number equal to a sovereign majority.

D. Confirmatory votes for the office of prime minister can be prohibited for the duration of the parliamentary session with a vote of confidence by a sovereign majority.

E. The passage of this transitional act functions as a confirmatory vote for the office of Prime Minister for Member of Parliament Yesenia Espinosa of Valenzuela.

2. Sovereign Powers of Carbania

A. The sovereign powers of the Carbania National Unity Government are to be transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister of Carbania. Sovereign Powers of Carbania are defined as all of the powers of governance that have been exercised by the Carbanina National Unity Government, including its judicial branches and lower levels of government during its transitional period.

B. All legitimate exercise of governance at all levels of Carbania flows from the sovereign powers of Carbania and therefore it is the responsibility to protect Carbania’s parliamentary form of government rests with those who hold it. Sovereign powers can be distributed by acts of parliament, between institutions of government at all levels.

C. The sovereign powers not distributed by act of parliament, form the executive powers of Carbania and are entrusted to the Prime Minister of Carbania upon their selection, if not held by an elected president.

3. Presidential Powers

A. With the consent of the Prime Minister of Carbania, the whole of the executive powers can be transferred to the Elected President of Carbania. Executive powers of Carabania held by the Elected President can only be returned to the Prime Minister of Carbania by the vote of a Sovereign Special Majority, which is defined as the vote if at least two thirds of elected members of the Carbanian parliament. Executive Powers also return to the sitting prime minister upon the election of a new president.

B. An elected president of Carbania without executive powers is permitted to call a referendum to acquire said powers, to be held three months after having been called. Should a majority of those voting in the referendum vote yes, the Executive powers of Carbania held by the Prime Minister are automatically transferred to the elected President of Carbania. Should a majority vote no, the sitting elected President of Carbania must wait a year from the date they had called an executive power referendum before being permitted to call another one. The executive powers of Carbania invariably include the right to select a date once a year for binding referendums to pass laws by a majority vote of participants.


4. Inherent Prime Ministerial Powers:

A. The Office of the Prime Minister, regardless of its status pertaining to the Executive Powers of Carbania, presides over the Carbanian Parliament, including the order and timing of votes, discussion and debate. The Prime Minister may choose to delegate this responsibility to specific individuals as they see fit. The Prime Minister's powers over the parliamentary proceedings can only be overridden individually by a Sovereign Majority of the Members of the Carbanian Parliament.


5. Legislative Power of the Carbania Parliament:

A. The Carbanian Parliament makes laws by distributing the Sovereign powers of Carbania, which it is empowered to do as a consequence of the democratic legitimacy conferred upon it as a result of free and fair elections.

B. All Members of parliament are entitled to propose legislation, which can be passed by a majority of present Members of Parliament unless vetoed through the exercise of the executive powers of Carbania, which can only be overridden by a Sovereign Special Majority.

C. After the passage of this transitional act, if a vote requirement beyond a sovereign majority is part of any legislation, the most it can require is the same share of the Carbanian Parliament it received during its passage.

6. The Carbanian Cabinet:

A. The Carbania Cabinet is a collection of ministries created through exercise of the executive power of Carbania to advise and manage its usage. The First Carbanian Cabinet is as follows:

Minister of Foreign Affairs: [OJS]
Minister of Finance: [MPL]
Minister of National Security: [UNE]
Minister of Justice: [UNE]
Minister of Interior: [OJS]
Minister of Agriculture: [OJS]
Minister of Commerce: [OJS]
Minister of Labour: [MPL]
Minister of Health: [OJS]
Minister of Public Services: [MPL]
Minister of Housing and Urban Development: [MPL]
Minister of Transportation: [UNE]
Minister of Energy: [MPL]
Minister of Education: [OJS]
Minister of Women's Affairs: [OJS]
Minister of Communication: [UNE]
Minister of Culture: [OJS]
Ministry of Civil Administration: [OJS]

7. Elected Terms of Office:

A. Elections for the Parliament of Carbania are to be held within 4 years and a day of the previous general election. Early elections can be called by the vote of a sovereign special majority or by the Prime minister unless rejected by a sovereign majority. Presidential Elections are to be carried out on a regular 4 year schedule from the declared date of the previous second round of presidential voting. Elections are to be carried out in the form agreed upon in the NATIONAL DEMOCRACY COMPACT of 2018.

8. Formation of the Carbanian Elections Commission:

A. The functions of the Carbania National Unity Government pertaining to the electoral process are to be retained to form the basis of a Carbanian Elections Commissions moving forward, as an independent, non-partisan institution that exists to ensure the integrity of future elections. The electoral model agreed upon NATIONAL DEMOCRACY COMPACT of 2018 is to proceed unchanged with the exception of implementing a system of compulsory voting for upcoming elections.

9. Amendments to this Transitional Act

Any and all amendments or the replacement of this act requires a Sovereign Special Majority.

The UNE Delegation votes YES.

[The Sarangtus Lands]

Alca Mallama Huaman MP
[Member of Parliament - State of Camparroz - Movimiento Popular de Liberación]

"Aye."

[Alozia]

Manuel Ortiz MP
[Member of Parliament - State of Bolivar y Carban - Manuel Ortiz List/Movimiento Popular de Liberación]

"A frame work for our government is desperately needed, but it cannot serve as a Trojan Horse for a vote of confidence! This bill should not be allowed to make it to a vote! We cannot write a bill that establishes our government and then have in that bill a specific PM candidate and cabinet coalition!"

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Manuel Ortiz MP
[Member of Parliament - State of Bolivar y Carban - Manuel Ortiz List/Movimiento Popular de Liberación]

"A frame work for our government is desperately needed, but it cannot serve as a Trojan Horse for a vote of confidence! This bill should not be allowed to make it to a vote! We cannot write a bill that establishes our government and then have in that bill a specific PM candidate and cabinet coalition!"

"Its not a trojan horse, it is the result of an agreement that UNE leadership has been working on with the MPL and OJS leadership for the purpose of creating a democratically elected government that can serve despite us not yet having a president and full constitution.

Most Carbanians want order, clarity and stability. Not an environment where criminal enterprises cloaking themselves in municipal government can illegally usurp power for themselves by, for example, imposing fake drug legalization that harbours and aids drug cartels in cities, as you have."

[Alozia]

Manuel Ortiz MP
[Member of Parliament - State of Bolivar y Carban - Manuel Ortiz List/Movimiento Popular de Liberación]

"A frame work for our government is desperately needed, but it cannot serve as a Trojan Horse for a vote of confidence! This bill should not be allowed to make it to a vote! We cannot write a bill that establishes our government and then have in that bill a specific PM candidate and cabinet coalition!"

"Its not a trojan horse, it is the result of an agreement that UNE leadership has been working on with the MPL and OJS leadership for the purpose of creating a democratically elected government that can serve despite us not yet having a president and full constitution.

Most Carbanians want order, clarity and stability. Not an environment where criminal enterprises cloaking themselves in municipal government can illegally usurp power for themselves by, for example, imposing fake drug legalization that harbours and aids drug cartels in cities, as you have."

"Do not lecture me on fighting crime! While I do what I can to stop cartels from getting more powerful and wealthy you live in a fantasy land of your father's legacy!

Is this what we have fought for? Is this the Carbania we sought to free? A nation under the boot of a tyrant's daughter?! All done under the disguise of 'order and stability'? I have heard that already, many times, Miss Espinosa! I have heard that from the mouth of your father! You may not have his name, but you do have his heart and his views!"

[Sao Nova Europa]

Alejandro Katsuragi MP
[Member of Parliament - State of Tres Rios - Partido de Libertad y Progresa]

"While there are merits in the bill - namely providing a framework of how our new republic shall function - unfortunately the PLP cannot support the bill as it is tied to a vote of confidence to a OJS - MPL - UNE coalition government, and the PLP is not willing to give a vote of confidence to such a government. As such, we will be forced - as a party - to vote against the bill. If the vote of confidence is separated from the rest of the bill, we might reconsider our vote."

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

"Its not a trojan horse, it is the result of an agreement that UNE leadership has been working on with the MPL and OJS leadership for the purpose of creating a democratically elected government that can serve despite us not yet having a president and full constitution.

Most Carbanians want order, clarity and stability. Not an environment where criminal enterprises cloaking themselves in municipal government can illegally usurp power for themselves by, for example, imposing fake drug legalization that harbours and aids drug cartels in cities, as you have."

"Do not lecture me on fighting crime! While I do what I can to stop cartels from getting more powerful and wealthy you live in a fantasy land of your father's legacy!

Is this what we have fought for? Is this the Carbania we sought to free? A nation under the boot of a tyrant's daughter?! All done under the disguise of 'order and stability'? I have heard that already, many times, Miss Espinosa! I have heard that from the mouth of your father! You may not have his name, but you do have his heart and his views!"

"You are not stopping cartels, you are providing them a safe place to gather resources for the purpose of terrorizing neighbouring towns. Whatever psudeo legal operation that develops in Marbella will not be able to compete with the power of the cartels. Drug policy can not be patchwork, it must be national, anything else is an invitation to chaos. That's before one even considers the insane precedent it'd set for municipalities to be able to unilaterally determine criminal law. The only thing that's saved you so far is a provisional governement that wants to avoid creating the faultlines for a civil war by avoiding prosecuting you for your behavior due to its derth of democratic legitimacy. No wonder you oppose the formation of a democratic government, even one that reflects most of the values you allegedly uphold."

[Alozia]

Having left the chamber following his remarks, Ortiz was not present for the majority of Espinosa's speech. However not long after he returned, paper in hand, taking the podium once more.

"Mr. Speaker, members of this honorable assembly.

I take the podium once again to oppose this proposal. When a couple of years ago our nation rose up to reclaim its freedom, spilling our own blood on the streets in clashes against junta forces and in dictatorial prisons under torture, a new democratic society achieved victory that was fueled by our unbroken resolve and hope. Hope that went untarnished despite attempts to divide the freedom movement through force, intimidation and slanderous lies. Hope in a better tomorrow, vigilantly protected by the champions of a new, free era.

Through hard work and unexpected turn of fortunes, it is us who were elected to lead our nation through the turbulent beginnings of said new era. Regardless of political affiliation, left or right, conservative or progressive, regardless of ethnicity, gender, age or profession, it is us who have and must live up to the duty of protecting our newly born democracy from threats both from outside and within.

These threats will come upon us when least expected, when most inconvenient and when hardest to detect. But we must detect them and we must avert the disaster they seek to bring. Today is one of such days.

When she took the podium earlier today, Yesenia Espinosa put forward what can only be described as an ultimatum. A false win or lose scenario, where she supposedly is the only guarantor of stable and efficient governance, and supposedly only through putting her in position of absolute power can we supposedly move forward as a nation of peace and order, law and justice. That, my fellow citizens, is untrue. In an assembly filled with people from street movements and democratic opposition of the days rightly gone by, we cannot allow for a daughter of a regime henchman to take reigns of a democratic state. We cannot risk putting the nation of millions at a whim of a single individual once more. We cannot allow for such state to return.

Today is the day we have to close that chapter in our history once and for all, not prolong it for generations to come. Today I stand in defiance of decades of fear and violence, I oppose Yesenia Espinosa as I have opposed her father. I will do so today, in parliament and at the ballot box, doing what I can to make sure she is not elected president.

I ask you, for at least one day, let's put our differences aside, lets cross the political boundaries that would typically divide factions in a democratic society and lets build a government that works for the common good of our democratic nation! Stop the undemocratic march for power and let Carbania rise to its full potential as a diverse, free-thinking nation!"

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Having left the chamber following his remarks, Ortiz was not present for the majority of Espinosa's speech. However not long after he returned, paper in hand, taking the podium once more.

"Mr. Speaker, members of this honorable assembly.

I take the podium once again to oppose this proposal. When a couple of years ago our nation rose up to reclaim its freedom, spilling our own blood on the streets in clashes against junta forces and in dictatorial prisons under torture, a new democratic society achieved victory that was fueled by our unbroken resolve and hope. Hope that went untarnished despite attempts to divide the freedom movement through force, intimidation and slanderous lies. Hope in a better tomorrow, vigilantly protected by the champions of a new, free era.

Through hard work and unexpected turn of fortunes, it is us who were elected to lead our nation through the turbulent beginnings of said new era. Regardless of political affiliation, left or right, conservative or progressive, regardless of ethnicity, gender, age or profession, it is us who have and must live up to the duty of protecting our newly born democracy from threats both from outside and within.

These threats will come upon us when least expected, when most inconvenient and when hardest to detect. But we must detect them and we must avert the disaster they seek to bring. Today is one of such days.

When she took the podium earlier today, Yesenia Espinosa put forward what can only be described as an ultimatum. A false win or lose scenario, where she supposedly is the only guarantor of stable and efficient governance, and supposedly only through putting her in position of absolute power can we supposedly move forward as a nation of peace and order, law and justice. That, my fellow citizens, is untrue. In an assembly filled with people from street movements and democratic opposition of the days rightly gone by, we cannot allow for a daughter of a regime henchman to take reigns of a democratic state. We cannot risk putting the nation of millions at a whim of a single individual once more. We cannot allow for such state to return.

Today is the day we have to close that chapter in our history once and for all, not prolong it for generations to come. Today I stand in defiance of decades of fear and violence, I oppose Yesenia Espinosa as I have opposed her father. I will do so today, in parliament and at the ballot box, doing what I can to make sure she is not elected president.

I ask you, for at least one day, let's put our differences aside, lets cross the political boundaries that would typically divide factions in a democratic society and lets build a government that works for the common good of our democratic nation! Stop the undemocratic march for power and let Carbania rise to its full potential as a diverse, free-thinking nation!"

"The Carbania National Unity Government exists as a coalition of people who were a part of the previous regime and popular democratic forces, to pretend that it was the product alone of vague forces on the left and right fighting in the streets, a formulation that I doubt your peers in the MPL accept for the record, is a grossly counter productive skewing of recent history. There will not be and can not be a functional government, if it endeavours to lock out anyone so much as related to someone who served under the old regime. That, along with your uspurpation of power at the muncipal level, is an example of your eagerness sow the seeds of civil war at every turn for as a matter of course, with the only notable impact being its undermining healthy democratic norms.

This framework was drafted with the direct participation of the leaderships of the OJS and the MPL. It is contains a cabinet in which 3 of the four largest parties in this parliment. To suggest that it is somehow a script for putting the nation into the hands of a single person alone is utter luanacy, further undermined by the fact that your first request, now obviously utterly insincere, was to split the cabinet and framework.

You are a gross demagogue, Mr. Ortiz and one that has shown a willingess to bend and break law while in executive office. Every anti-democratic insctinct that you suggest I have, simply as a matter of my birth, you display in your words and deeds."

[Guagolandum]

José Antonio García MP
Labourist Party/Head of List in Camparroz
"Nay."

[Nova Anglicana]

Francisco Torres MP
Labourist Party/Intichiquan

"Although I am more ignorant of parliamentary procedure than some of my colleagues, I believe that an act setting up the form of government and a vote of confidence for a particular government ought to be separate votes. Therefore, I join my colleague in voting NAY."

[Guagolandum]

José Antonio García MP
Labourist Party/Camparroz

"This proposal is actively going against the bases we want to set for this new democratic era in Carbania. The formation of governments should be completely independent from that of our democratic system. While I agree with the foundations that the bill proposes about Carbania's offices of President and Prime Minister, it is very dirty from Mrs. Espinosa to include her government formation plans in this bill so that she can call us anti-democracy individuals in case we vote against her cabinet ambitions."

[Guagolandum]

José Antonio García MP
Labourist Party/Camparroz

Bill by the PLC
Historic Memory Bill

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Considering all the suffering endured by Carbanians in the era of the military dictatorship (1972-2016), the LABOURIST PARTY OF CARBANIA presents the Historic Memory Bill, which would have the following effects if approved by the Parliament:

i. The establishment of an investigative commission composed of law experts, its goal being the delivering of a final report on attrocities committed by the military dictatorship and insurgents during that time;

ii. The collection of all of the victims' testimonies and declarations, considering this has a huge role in solving all the mysteries related to those dark times;

iii. The renaming of public spaces named honoring prominent dictatorship officials,

iv. The creation of a government committee dedicated to identify and localize common graves,

v. The illegalization of public displays exalting or praising the dictatorship,

vi. Granting Carbanian citizenship and passports to the offspring of those exiled by the dictatorship, and of those legally related to them in their recipient countries;
vi-i. Defining exiles as people who emigrated from Carbania for political reasons between the date of the coup and December 31, 2015;
vi-ii. Defining legally related people as their offspring, foreigner spouses with whom they have produced offspring, or in children's cases, if parents are adoptive or if there is a foreign legal guardian;

vii. The creation of a National Centre for Historic Memory, which will have the category of museum and the duty of remembering the past of Carbania and create national awareness about this dark chapter of it.