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ELECTIONS
AMERION GAINS EARLY LEAD IN DELEGATE ELECTION GAMESIDE ROUND
Amerion has gained an early lead against Penguin in the gameside round of the Delegate election, having obtained 72% of all the votes that have been cast so far. The vote, which will run until July 18, is open to Native World Assembly members and deployed Special Forces personnel, and will determine which of the two candidates, who have already passed through the forum round, will succeed Somyrion as Delegate. Once a winner is announced, they will have to surpass Somyrion in endorsements before formally assuming the office of Delegate.

HIGH COURT
COURT EXTENDS DELIBERATION ON LOCAL COUNCIL VACANCY CASE
The High Court has extended the deliberation period for the Local Council Vacancy case, which was set to conclude on July 11. In their public notice on July 8, Associate Justice Nat announced that the deliberation period would be extended until July 18 to allow for a redraft of the expected ruling. This extension is the first publicly known use of the Standards for Case Management, one of the three internal rules that the Court announced and released earlier this month.

ASSEMBLY
LEGISLATOR COMMITTEE DID NOT CONDUCT JUNE LEGISLATOR CHECK
Chair of the Assembly Rabbitz published their first State of the Assembly report on July 10, accounting for changes to the legislator roster, recent debates and votes held. In addition to announcing the admission of 10 new legislators during the past month, Rabbitz said that the monthly activity check, which would lead to legislator removals, would not taken place given that the Legislator Committee Act requires the Legislator Committee to perform activity checks only during the first week of a month.

MILITARY AFFAIRS
SPECIAL FORCES REPORT 93 OPERATIONS IN THE PAST WEEK
Minister of Military Affairs Phoenix distributed the latest Special Forces Weekly Report, which summarises the 93 operations that the military conducted during the week. These options include 53 defences, 38 detags and 2 liberations, conducted with regional partners such as The Gray Wardens and the Rejected Realms Army. In addition, the report also shared the news that Swifty Gamer, until then a Trainee, was promoted to Soldier, having proven, in Phoenix's words, "more than capable in battle".

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(This post was last modified: 07-13-2020, 10:22 PM by South Pacific Independent News Network.)

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ASSEMBLY
LEGISLATOR COMMITTEE DID NOT CONDUCT JUNE LEGISLATOR CHECK
Chair of the Assembly Rabbitz published their first State of the Assembly report on July 10, accounting for changes to the legislator roster, recent debates and votes held. In addition to announcing the admission of 10 new legislators during the past month, Rabbitz said that the monthly activity check, which would lead to legislator removals, would not taken place given that the Legislator Committee Act requires the Legislator Committee to perform activity checks only during the first week of a month.

This is highly misleading.

For over two years now, the established practice has been a cooperation between the Chair and LegComm, operating on a shared roster of Legislators. The reason is simple - it's the Chair's Charter-given duty to record votes, while it's LegComm's responsibility to perform checks in part based on the voting record, so the CoA office and LegComm have worked out a way to coordinate these overlapping responsibilities. What happened this month was not what the headline so capriciously implies, but rather that there was a miscommunication between the new Chair and LegComm on the expected mutual expectations, and we have since cleared those up.

I strongly condemn the SPINN editors for letting this headline pass.

(This post was last modified: 07-14-2020, 04:58 AM by Roavin.)

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