(05-10-2020, 09:35 PM)Somyrion Wrote: Waiting until after elections just means we have another Minister of Regional Affairs whose term hangs, for its entire length, in a sort of limbo state waiting for us to bring up "that topic" again. It means that we have to wait through four more months of the MoRA having an uncertain mandate before being able to press the "restart" button, whether the effect of that button is to establish new ministries or to reaffirm the MoRA's mandate in some way. Such a situation is not conducive to an effective ministry or an effective regional decisionmaking process.

Generally, I agree with what you've said, but the problem highlighted above (and I would agree that I feel it has been a problem) shouldn't exist. A ministry should not be affected by proposed changes. It should work within its current legislated position until the passing of a law changes something.

If we end up with another MoRA elected under the current legislation, I would expect them and the rest of the ministry to do the best job with what they've got for the term that they have, regardless of what potential changes may happen down the line - beggars next term the might always be a different player in charge and they have no control over that. Unless they've explicit laid out a platform for change, anything else would be a betrayal of what they were voted in to do.

May I add, anyway, that I appreciate the increased opened on the MoRA server as of this morning. This is a very good step forwards and away from what I've felt for some time is a heavy-handed and stiflingly bureaucrativ approach (which I also acknowledge was put in place with the best of intentions - I'm not accusing anyone off either malice or incompetence here).