(01-29-2021, 09:09 PM)Rebeltopia Wrote:

(01-29-2021, 10:53 AM)anjo Wrote: Jay already said this, but the Delegate wouldn't answer to any kind of Cabinet minister. It's just binding them to the decision of the OWL voters, who in fact are the voting WA nations (plus SPSF members) you're proposing to make the Delegate follow.

But of course a vote may swing after OWL voting is closed, that's why we currently have a provision in our internal procedure saying that the Delegate should change their vote when the WA's voting period on a resolution is ending and the Delegate would go against the regional vote. It might be worth to include something to that effect in this bill.

"(1) The Delegate shall cast their vote on proposed World Assembly resolutions according to voting recommendations issued by the Ministry of World Assembly Legislation."
Sounds quite like the delegate is being forced to vote how the MoWA dictates.

At the end of the day, the delegate votes with the region, not the cabinet. Id very much like to keep it that way.

The sound of that might be a bit misleading ‒ the Ministry is not the Minister; the Ministry would issue its voting recommendations like it has for over half a year now: We hold a preliminary vote where every WA and SPSF nation can decide what the initial stance will be; the Delegate casts an early vote as soon as the resolution reaches the WA voting floor according to this stance, thus making sure that what South Pacificans decided on initially gets a headstart on the floor; and ultimately, at the conclusion of the WA voting, the Delegate switches their vote, should it be against the region's final overall vote. Nothing in that procedure is going to change.

But I agree with you that we should explicitly include this provision requiring the Delegate to swing their ultimate vote on the WA floor to the region's if they would conflict nearing the conclusion of the WA's voting.

(01-26-2021, 06:07 PM)Jay Coop Wrote:

World Assembly Act

An act to define the World Assembly procedures of the Coalition of the South Pacific

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3. Voting

(1) Voting on proposed World Assembly resolutions shall begin within 24 hours of their submission, with the voting period ending once voting starts in the World Assembly.

I have to vehemently protest against this part. Micro-managing something that specific in regional law instead of internal procedure guidelines really isn't necessary. There's a constant flow of horribly written proposals being submitted to the WA, and opening a vote on every single one of them within 24 hours would lead to an unmanageable pile of OWL votes on bad proposals that wouldn't ever reach the WA voting floor ‒ I'm absolutely positive it would cost me and any of the senior staff, who are tasked with opening and closing votes, our sanity.