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Legal Question: Absence of LC representative
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Your honor,

Charter V.4 establishes that the Local Council shall send a representative to the Assembly, and Charter IV.7 specifies that this representative shall have 20% of the vote. At the moment, however, the Local Council has not appointed a representative.

These three votes have all passed the assembly with such margins that the Local Council vote cannot affect the result, yet they are theoretically not passed because that same vote is missing. My questions:
If the Local Council has not appointed a representative, or the representative does not vote within the allotted 3 or 5 days of voting, are the Local Council's weighted votes considered absent, considered an abstention, or does the vote remain incomplete until the representative has cast his or her weighted votes? 
If the vote remains incomplete, must it remain incomplete (and therefore the bill contained therein not become law) even if the Assembly chamber vote has such a large margin that the Local Council representative vote could not affect the outcome in either way?
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Legal Question: Absence of LC representative - by Roavin - 06-25-2016, 06:01 AM



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