Pacitalia
28-01-2007, 09:56
From La Repubblica Oggia - Online Edition
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Pacitalian senior deputy prime minister Diego Zuna stands to head to the
ballot box during the 19th January vote in the Constazione Ampoliticato
Federali regarding the Republican Reform Draft, 2007. Following a
vote later that afternoon by Senators, standard procedures on constitutional
votes were brought into effect. The results were released Friday morning.
Pacitalian legislators vote in favour of Republican Reform Draft
Nation sighs in relief as framework recommendations resoundingly accepted
TIMIOCATO (DcAP) -- Pack your bags, Democratic Capitalist Republic, and move on out. You're no longer a country, and your successor has been heartily approved.
A popular referendum expressing 70,17% support among voters, followed by a vote in favour among both MPPs and Senators, is enough to seal the deal and move the process of reforming Pacitalia's aged political and electoral systems (through a rewrite of the Carta Proposera di Libertà's second section) one step closer to fruition. With this final act of dual voting, Pacitalians have secured the constitutional change that had been advocated since early 2001.
The vote in Pacitalia's two houses was held on the 19th January, but legislative protocol dictates that votes on constitutional amendments or clarifications must be conducted as a secret ballot, collected, counted following a weekend and then recounted twice, over a three-day period. Finally, the results are released one week after the vote. Legislators are not allowed to publicly reveal their votes during the tabulation period. Constitutional drafts also require not only an average sixty percent support in both houses, but a stipulation that neither house can have a vote of lower than fifty-five percent even if the average is still sufficient.
The vote looked promising on the morning of the 19th as MPPs in the Constazione Ampoliticato Federali, including the fathers of the project, prime minister Fernando Chiovitti and senior deputy prime minister Diego Zuna, stood to cast their ballots in obscurum. Chiovitti and Zuna said they both felt good about it, but as they were both censured by custom and by law, refused to fall victim to reporters demanding to know how they voted.
Following lunch recess it was time for Senators to respond in kind with a vote of their own in Pacitalia's senior legislative chamber. And indeed, once more, Chiovitti and Zuna resisted the bombarding questions of reporters and expressed their anxiety, but moreso their undying positivity.
They can now relax.
MPPs voted symbolically, with the number of supporting legislators matching the number of years since the founding of the Pacitalian republic. 504 MPPs were in favour of the Republican Reform Draft, amounting to a remarkable 77,9% support. Conversely, there were 123 in opposition and 20 in abstention. As it was a secret ballot, who voted which way can never be revealed unless the MPP so chooses, though it is assumed mostly far-left PSC legislators and their Egalitarian counterparts were the culprits, as they had expressed the greatest opposition to the changes advocated in the RRD.
Following the release of the results from the lower house's vote, ElectionsPacitalia announced that Senators had voted 60,74% in favour of the draft (178 in support, 89 in opposition, 26 in abstention). The final average was 69,32 percent, the stipulations met, the vote declared valid by ElectionsPacitalia and the country off in its new task to set in stone the recommendations discussed in what is now the Republican Reform Act, 2007 [ 0079 C1 H1 1/2007 ].
Chiovitti and Zuna stood together, beaming, in front of legislators in the Camera Superiore of the Prado Nuova, and in front of elated Pacitalians watching live on television, and outside in the Piazza dei Santi on a large projection screen. "We can finally move forward - monumental change has been endorsed by both the public and legislators; now we must solidify it and finalise it. Let's get back to work!"
With the vote last week; the 60-day period in which individuals and groups could voice concerns, and possibly delay the legislation's passing, ended. Therefore, Chiovitti's first step, in response to the 'yes' vote, will be to sign the act into law Monday morning. The prime minister will likely hold off on calling an election for a couple of weeks until the processes and protocols of the new system are established, and a basketful of subsequent acts solidifying this massive change in Pacitalian national politics are passed.
http://www.elperiodico.com/vivo/recursos/fotos/foto_178014_CAS.jpg
Pacitalian senior deputy prime minister Diego Zuna stands to head to the
ballot box during the 19th January vote in the Constazione Ampoliticato
Federali regarding the Republican Reform Draft, 2007. Following a
vote later that afternoon by Senators, standard procedures on constitutional
votes were brought into effect. The results were released Friday morning.
Pacitalian legislators vote in favour of Republican Reform Draft
Nation sighs in relief as framework recommendations resoundingly accepted
TIMIOCATO (DcAP) -- Pack your bags, Democratic Capitalist Republic, and move on out. You're no longer a country, and your successor has been heartily approved.
A popular referendum expressing 70,17% support among voters, followed by a vote in favour among both MPPs and Senators, is enough to seal the deal and move the process of reforming Pacitalia's aged political and electoral systems (through a rewrite of the Carta Proposera di Libertà's second section) one step closer to fruition. With this final act of dual voting, Pacitalians have secured the constitutional change that had been advocated since early 2001.
The vote in Pacitalia's two houses was held on the 19th January, but legislative protocol dictates that votes on constitutional amendments or clarifications must be conducted as a secret ballot, collected, counted following a weekend and then recounted twice, over a three-day period. Finally, the results are released one week after the vote. Legislators are not allowed to publicly reveal their votes during the tabulation period. Constitutional drafts also require not only an average sixty percent support in both houses, but a stipulation that neither house can have a vote of lower than fifty-five percent even if the average is still sufficient.
The vote looked promising on the morning of the 19th as MPPs in the Constazione Ampoliticato Federali, including the fathers of the project, prime minister Fernando Chiovitti and senior deputy prime minister Diego Zuna, stood to cast their ballots in obscurum. Chiovitti and Zuna said they both felt good about it, but as they were both censured by custom and by law, refused to fall victim to reporters demanding to know how they voted.
Following lunch recess it was time for Senators to respond in kind with a vote of their own in Pacitalia's senior legislative chamber. And indeed, once more, Chiovitti and Zuna resisted the bombarding questions of reporters and expressed their anxiety, but moreso their undying positivity.
They can now relax.
MPPs voted symbolically, with the number of supporting legislators matching the number of years since the founding of the Pacitalian republic. 504 MPPs were in favour of the Republican Reform Draft, amounting to a remarkable 77,9% support. Conversely, there were 123 in opposition and 20 in abstention. As it was a secret ballot, who voted which way can never be revealed unless the MPP so chooses, though it is assumed mostly far-left PSC legislators and their Egalitarian counterparts were the culprits, as they had expressed the greatest opposition to the changes advocated in the RRD.
Following the release of the results from the lower house's vote, ElectionsPacitalia announced that Senators had voted 60,74% in favour of the draft (178 in support, 89 in opposition, 26 in abstention). The final average was 69,32 percent, the stipulations met, the vote declared valid by ElectionsPacitalia and the country off in its new task to set in stone the recommendations discussed in what is now the Republican Reform Act, 2007 [ 0079 C1 H1 1/2007 ].
Chiovitti and Zuna stood together, beaming, in front of legislators in the Camera Superiore of the Prado Nuova, and in front of elated Pacitalians watching live on television, and outside in the Piazza dei Santi on a large projection screen. "We can finally move forward - monumental change has been endorsed by both the public and legislators; now we must solidify it and finalise it. Let's get back to work!"
With the vote last week; the 60-day period in which individuals and groups could voice concerns, and possibly delay the legislation's passing, ended. Therefore, Chiovitti's first step, in response to the 'yes' vote, will be to sign the act into law Monday morning. The prime minister will likely hold off on calling an election for a couple of weeks until the processes and protocols of the new system are established, and a basketful of subsequent acts solidifying this massive change in Pacitalian national politics are passed.