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FNR | Legislation: Amendment to the Partnership for Sovereignty Charter
Full Name: Amendment to the Partnership for Sovereignty Charter
Abbreviation: RL-043
Date: 04/06/2021
Brief Purpose: To alter and clarify the voting process of the Partnership for Sovereignty, a Security Council voting bloc.
RL-043, Amendment to the Partnership for Sovereignty Charter
Preamble:
ACKNOWLEDGING: that The Free Nations Region is a member of the Partnership for Sovereignty, a Security Council voting bloc.
UNDERSTANDING: that amendments made to the Charter of the Partnership for Sovereignty must be approved by the legislatures of all of its member regions.
HOPING: that the legislature of The Free Nations Region will provide its approval of the following amendment to the aforementioned Charter.
This piece of legislation hereby amends the following:
Below are two excerpts from the Partnership for Sovereignty Charter with the appropriate revisions applied to them. The full Charter can be viewed here.
Section II: Setting Voting Recommendations
Each member region may appoint a delegation to participate in private discussions about voting with other member regions of the Partnership for Sovereignty. Each delegation shall have one vote in decisions of the Partnership for Sovereignty.
Any representative to the Partnership for Sovereignty may request that the Partnership set a recommendation on a vote for any Security Council proposal prior to on site voting based on the idea such a vote recommendation will fulfill the values in Article I.
After discussion, any representative may motion for a vote on a vote recommendation, such a vote will last 24 hours or until all members have voted. A vote recommendation includes the option preferred by the parties and the reasoning published for the recommendation. In order to issue a recommendation, a quorum of one-half of delegations must be reached, and three-fifths of non-abstaining 60% of voting representatives must support the recommendation representatives must support the recommendation. If the proposed vote recommendation does not reach these thresholds this threshold, the Partnership will not issue a vote recommendation on that Security Council proposal.
After a vote recommendation is issued, the recommendation will be published in a NationStates Dispatch for public viewing. Members are encouraged to further distribute the recommendation through appropriate methods to ensure the citizens of the member region are made aware of the vote recommendation.
Once the relevant Security Council proposal reaches a vote, the Delegates and World Assembly residents of member regions are strongly encouraged to vote in line with the Partnership’s recommendation.
Section IV: Membership Guidelines
Any region that wishes to join the Partnership for Sovereignty must contact the responsible authority in a member region to request entry to the Partnership. The member region’s delegation must present the question of the region’s admission to the Partnership for Sovereignty. By requesting admission to the Partnership, a region agrees to abide by the terms of this Charter if admitted.
Following discussion of the application, a 72 hour vote will be held and, if three-fourths of non-abstaining delegations concur, with a quorum of one-half of voting delegations voting delegations concur, the region shall be admitted.
Should an application vote fail to reach quorum, discussion of the application shall continue for one week, after which a second vote is held. Should the second vote fail to reach quorum, the application is automatically rejected.
An existing member of the Partnership shall be automatically expelled if they declare a formal raiding alignment.
An existing member of the Partnership may be expelled for any reason if three-fourths of voting delegations concur in a 72 hour vote. A member region may not vote on its own expulsion.
An existing member of the Partnership may withdraw at any time.
Proposed & Signed,
My Nation
President of The Free Nations Region
Wischland
WA Delegate of 10000 Islands and the original author of this amendment
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