Registration of Political Parties Act (Debate Open)

[Colin]

Registration of Political Parties Act

Section I: Registration
   1.   All individuals or groups wishing to form or maintain an Atlasian political party must submit an application to Secretary of Forum Affairs (SoFA) for certification as a political party.
   2.   No SoFA shall deny any request to form an Atlasian political party unless that party is in violation of any of the below listed terms:
      a.   No party shall be registered that consists of no members who have voted in an election within the past six months,
      b.   No party shall be registered for which the name of the registered party intentionally resembles that of another, already registered political party,
      c.   No party shall be registered that cannot provide an official contact for said party. This contact may be changed at any time.

Section II: Elections
For all elections within Atlasia, no candidate may run under a banner of any political party without an express statement from the official contact of that political party permitting that candidate to run under the banner of that party. No candidate so barred from running under any given banner shall be considered barred from running under a different registered political party, or as an independent.

Section III: Recognition of Existing Parties
All parties with a current membership of five or more, as recognized by the Constitution of Atlasia, shall be automatically recognized as Atlasian political parties effective 1 September 2008. All other existing political parties shall be without recognition effective 1 September 2008, save for those which submit an application to the Secretary of Forum Affairs as described in Section I, Clause 1.


Sponsor: Verily

[Colin]

Don't we still have a minimum membership requirement for the SoFA to recognize a political party?  Like somewhere around three or four members?

It's set in the Constitution as 5 members.

[Colin]

I motion to table this legislation.

Where is my vote?

Sorry, I didn't see it there. I had a long backlog of stuff that needed to get done.

The vote is on the motion to table.

Please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.

[Colin]

Nay


The required two days have passed. With 3 in favour with 1 against, this bill is tabled.