Why did you vote against

[Yazakhastan]

Why did you vote against the promulgation of resolutions? When the reason was to provide international transparency to the WA?

[The Palentine]

Because I felt this was not something the Festering Snakepit should be involved. I felt it only applied in limited circumstances, like a despotic regime. If a Despotic Regime/Dictator isn't going to let his own people know the law, why would he pay any attention to the Festering Snakepit telling him what to do. They'd most likely tell the Snakepit and its members to go pound sand up it's arse. Its like gun laws in RL...only legal gun owners comply with the laws, criminals or those committing a crime ignore the laws and regulations.

Excelsior,
Sen Horatio Sulla

[Araraukar]

Why did you vote against the promulgation of resolutions? When the reason was to provide international transparency to the WA?

There was no "international transparency" in the proposal. It instead wanted to make it more unclear when and how member nations pass their laws. Like, say a member nation makes a national law that is set to go in effect on first of May. Without the proposal in effect, the law goes in effect on first of May. However, with the proposal in effect, there would instead, after first of May, come an indefinite delay during which the people who the law would apply to, would need to be somehow contacted and made aware of it (you can imagine that in the case of a sales tax change, that would be everyone in the nation), and only after then the law would come into effect.

Also, the proposal would have prevented nations passing laws on speeded-up schedule during a national emergency, if a bureaucratic committee of WA employees (who do not come from any of the WA nations) had decided that the national emergency wasn't serious enough an emergency. Like right now in RL with coronavirus epidemic - if a nation didn't have enough (enough in the committee's opinion, not the nation's that actually is dealing with the epidemic) sick people, the committee might decide that the nation has no right to pass laws needed to deal with the epidemic and its effects without the laws undergoing the full review process as usual, which in RL usually takes anything from one to three years. And even then, on top of that, would come the vague delay as explained above.

Both things would have ADDED confusion and opaqueness to the whole process of nations passing national laws. The WA laws, resolutions, are already mandated to be made known to all people as soon as they pass.