LAW PROPOSAL
proposed by the Federal President
LUNAM
the Prime Minister
EASTWOOD
and the Right Honourable
MARCHESI
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Provisions relating the Electoral Law for the Parliamentary Elections
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Filed on March 1st, 2013
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Art. 1
[1] This law changes the Art. 36 of the St.Charlian Constitution in:
“The General Assembly is composed by ten members elected by universal, direct and secret suffrage. The Governors of the Member States of the St.Charlian Commonwealth are part of the General Assembly but they are not entitled to vote except in some cases expected by this Constitution.”
[2] With this modification, the Federations’ Governors cannot be automatically Members of the Parliament. However, they can be elected Members of Parliament according to Art. 4, paragraph 3 of this law.
Art. 2
The Party, which obtains the relative majority of the ballots, obtains six seats in the General Assembly except in the case expected by Art. 3, paragraph 3 of this law.
Art. 3
[1] The 4 left seats are assigned this way:
- Case 1: if there are only two parties running at the elections, all the 4 seats are assigned to the votes with the second highest number of votes, except for the cases as in Article 3, paragraph 3 of this law.
- Case 2: if there are three or more parties running at the elections, the 4 seats are assigned proportionally with the "Hare-Niemeyer" method, briefly summarized in Art. 3, paragraph 2 of this law.
[2] The formula Q=V/4 (where Q is the Hare quotient and V is the sum of the votes of the minority parties) determines the Q coefficient used to calculate the number of votes needed for a seat. Let X be the number of votes of each party. Let N be calculated as N=X/Q. The integer part of N (without rounding) is the number of seats for each party. If there are unassigned seats, the following procedure takes place: one seat is assigned at a time, starting from the party whose N's decimal part is the biggest, proceeding for decreasing values of that part until there are no seats left.
[3] If the party with the highest number of votes overcomes the 70% threshold, then the 10 seats are assigned in proportion with the "Hare-Niemeyer" method as following:
The formula Q=V/10 (where Q is the Hare quotient and V is the sum of the votes) determines the Q coefficient used to calculate the number of votes needed for a seat. Let X be the number of votes of each party. Let N be calculated as N=X/Q. The integer part of N (without rounding) is the number of seats for each party. If there are unassigned seats, the following procedure takes place: one seat is assigned at a time, starting from the party whose N's decimal part is the biggest, proceeding for decreasing values of that part until there are no seats left.
Art. 4
[1] The Parties' Secretaries, in the ways they consider more appropriate, must make a consecutively numbered list of ten candidates to the Parliament and they must send it to the Ministry of Home Affairs before the second Sunday of November.
[2] The first and the second name written on the list are the candidate Prime Minister and the candidate Deputy Prime Minister respectively.
[3] The candidate Governors at the Federal Elections can be candidates in the Parliament lists, except for the first two seats. Thus, who runs for the Governor's seat can't run as a Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister.
[4] Once the number of Member of Parliament for each party is chosen, they are charged according to the list's numeric progression.
[5] is case of withdrawal, resignation or death of the Member of the Parliament, the next one on the list takes his seat
Art. 5
The Parliamentary Elections must be taken together with the Federal Elections.
Art. 6
[1] The General Elections start on the Saturday before the second-last Sunday of December and they last on the 5th January at 12.00 CET (GMT+1).
[2] Federations have to publish the Electoral Results before the 12.00 CET (GMT+1) of the 6th of January.
[3] Where possible, paper ballot is to prefer.
Art. 7
These dates are stated as following:
- The campaign starts on the Saturday before the second-last Sunday of November. The Federal President has to convene the election rallies, dismiss the General Assembly and eventually have elections held at the stated dates according to Art. 6, paragraph 1 of this law.
- On the 6th of January seats in the Parliament are assigned. In two days the outgoing President of the General Assembly opens the councils that have to design his successor. Once the three days are passed, the outgoing President of the General assembly must open the voting and choosing session to have his successor designed.
- In three days from the seats' assignment the names of the potential ministries must come to the Federal President's State Secretary. The following day the Oath of Office and the nominations of the new Federal Government take place.
Art. 8
The next-to-come General Elections will be held according to this law's rules, while this legislature will continue with the rules stated before the approval of this law.
Tor Pendente,
March 1st, 2013
James Matthias Lunam (signed)
Alexander Eastwood (signed)
Valentina Marchesi (signed)