The results:
Orange: 58% of votes
Yellow: 42% of votes
The plans of Orange Faction shall be put into practice.
Welcome! Today marks the beginning of an important time in Conscientia's history.
As you may know our ruling government has recently split into two factions over which government structure reform should be put into practice. Both want to restructure the government, but they cannot agree on how to do it.
All must vote in this referendum! They are also strongly urged to post!
We must remind you...Voting is mandatory and posting is obligatory.
Orange Faction:
They plan to radically restructure government. They propose that the country by split into united city states. Each city state elects a council who would be lead by someone who would represent the council and be a member of Parliament. Their leaders make up the Parliament.
The Council Of Regional Representatives will be abolished, as their purpose has now been absorbed by the Parliament.
They believe this will be more democratic.
The Heads of State would become part of the Parliament. The would be required to attend parliament. They would gain no extra power. They would still be directly elected by the people.
Under their system every member of Parliament is equal*, and so there is no head of government.
*Though the Heads of State must attend Parliament and can debate in Parliament, they are not members of parliament and do not posses any of the powers of a member of parliament.
They want all elections to be held using the "Single Transferable Vote" system of voting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
The Yellow Faction (opposition faction) think this can lead to far too many disagreements in parliament causing the democratic process to go too slowly.
Yellow Faction:
Their plan was the original plan. They want to establish the people as an official pillar of government.
Forum buildings would be built in every city, here the people would discuss things of political importance. This is were political parties will also debate. Etc.
The "People's Parliament" as it would be called, will have the ability to hold national referendums. If more than 2/3 of the population vote then the decision of the people shall be passed.
The People's Parliament will also be able to send their elected representatives to debate against the National Parliament.
Yellow Faction argues that this is the least expensive option and that it also increases democracy without slowing the democratic process. They also say that their current system has served the nation well enough and does not need to be almost completely replaced.
The Orange Faction argues that this isn't enough, and that their more radical change in needed in order to bring about more democracy. They also argue that keeping their 'winner takes all' parliament system leaves up to 49.999999% of the population without the leader they voted for.
((There have been 160 views of this topic...that means their could have been 160 votes...all I want is 50...100 votes would be ideal...but I would happily settle for 50 votes.))
As you may know our ruling government has recently split into two factions over which government structure reform should be put into practice. Both want to restructure the government, but they cannot agree on how to do it.
All must vote in this referendum! They are also strongly urged to post!
We must remind you...Voting is mandatory and posting is obligatory.
Orange Faction:
They plan to radically restructure government. They propose that the country by split into united city states. Each city state elects a council who would be lead by someone who would represent the council and be a member of Parliament. Their leaders make up the Parliament.
The Council Of Regional Representatives will be abolished, as their purpose has now been absorbed by the Parliament.
They believe this will be more democratic.
The Heads of State would become part of the Parliament. The would be required to attend parliament. They would gain no extra power. They would still be directly elected by the people.
Under their system every member of Parliament is equal*, and so there is no head of government.
*Though the Heads of State must attend Parliament and can debate in Parliament, they are not members of parliament and do not posses any of the powers of a member of parliament.
They want all elections to be held using the "Single Transferable Vote" system of voting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
The Yellow Faction (opposition faction) think this can lead to far too many disagreements in parliament causing the democratic process to go too slowly.
Yellow Faction:
Their plan was the original plan. They want to establish the people as an official pillar of government.
Forum buildings would be built in every city, here the people would discuss things of political importance. This is were political parties will also debate. Etc.
The "People's Parliament" as it would be called, will have the ability to hold national referendums. If more than 2/3 of the population vote then the decision of the people shall be passed.
The People's Parliament will also be able to send their elected representatives to debate against the National Parliament.
Yellow Faction argues that this is the least expensive option and that it also increases democracy without slowing the democratic process. They also say that their current system has served the nation well enough and does not need to be almost completely replaced.
The Orange Faction argues that this isn't enough, and that their more radical change in needed in order to bring about more democracy. They also argue that keeping their 'winner takes all' parliament system leaves up to 49.999999% of the population without the leader they voted for.
((There have been 160 views of this topic...that means their could have been 160 votes...all I want is 50...100 votes would be ideal...but I would happily settle for 50 votes.))
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