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Proposal to Establish a new office.


On 24 January 2022, Junior Senator from Dumborton District Jeremy Smith proposed a new bill called the Senate Speaker Act, it would establish a new office in the Senate, called the Senate Speaker. The bill is as follows:
The Senate Speaker Act

The Office of the Senate Majority Leader will be abolished, and instead replaced with The Office of the Senate Speaker, all the responsibilities and power previously held by the Senate Majority Leader will be transferred over to the Senate Speaker.

The senator also proposed two constitutional amendment bills which are as follows:

Article VIII. Amendments

a) The constitution shall be amended only if it meet the following requirements:
i) The approval of the President, Vice President, The Speaker of the House and The Senate Speaker.
ii) 60% of the population.
iii) two thirds majority vote of District governments.
iv) two-thirds majority vote from the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Article III. The Government and Elections

a) The Offices of President and Vice President shall be elected by Presidential and Vice Presidential elections which shall be held on the first Tuesday of May.
b) Any citizen who wishes to run for office may run regardless of their race, religion, gender and sexuality.
c) The office of the President and Vice President shall have a term limit of 10 years.
d) Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections shall be held every 5 years.
e) The House of Representative and Senate Elections shall be held every 2 years.
f) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be chosen by Speaker elections.
g) The Senate Majority Leader shall be chosen by two-thirds majority vote of the Senators.
h) The House and Senate elections shall be held on the second Wednesday of November.
i) The Speaker election shall be held on the first Monday of July.
j) The Senate Speaker elections shall be held on the Second Tuesday of August.

These three bills received a debate period of one month, during which Senator Smith made it clear that all the responsibilities held by the current Majority Leader will be transferred over to the Senate Speaker. And also said that if passed, Special Senate Speaker elections will be held to elect a new Senate Speaker. He also said that his reasoning for the bills was to give the Senate more power, saying that he recognizes that the Senate is the most important chamber of the Parliament and deserves more rights and power.

The debate period ended on 26 February 2022, and voting started on 28 February 2022, since The Senate Speaker Act was a parliamentary bill, it would not need the approval of 60% of the population or 2/3 of district governments Although it would need the approval of 2/3 majority vote from both chambers. The constitutional bills that were proposed would however need those requirements.

The first bill at vote was The Senate Speaker Act, which passed through the House with 342 out of the 500 seats voting in favour of the bill, while 158 seats had voted against, meaning that more than a two thirds majority was achieved in the House, It was passed by the House Speaker meaning that the bill had passed through the House. It was then presented to the Senate in which 85 seats voted for the bill while 10 voted against and 5 abstained. However, The Senate Majority Leader refused to pass the bill through the Senate, saying the bill was an unnecessary measure and that it would lead to abuse of power in the Senate. Since his approval would be required for the bill to pass, Senior Senators had tried to change his mind and assure him that the bill would not lead to abuse of power, after more and more senators had pressured him to pass the bill, he eventually passed the bill in a very upset, distressed speech to the Senate Chamber.
As a result the bill had passed and was signed into law by the President.

The next two bills were scheduled to be at vote on 6 March 2022, since the bills at vote were constitutional amendments, they would receive a much longer voting period. Here is a timeline of both the bills voting activity:

As a result of the voting, the bills had passed and on 15 April 2022, The Speaker of the House made an announcement to the Parliament that both the bills would be written into the constitution in due time.

The President had respectfully approached the Majority Leader of the Senate, asking for his resignation as the office of the Senate Majority Leader would be abolished, in a upset, sorrow and stressful speech to the Parliament The Majority Leader announced that he will be resigning as Senate Majority Leader following the passing of the new bills and also said that he will resign as a Senior Senator. He wished the Senate best of luck in its future endeavors and wished the future Senate Speaker for a successful term. The President, who was present during the speech accepted his resignation and wished him a great and successful future ahead. The now former Majority Leader was seen leaving the Parliament with teary eyes and refused to talk to the press about his speech.

The Election Commission said that the Special Speaker elections will be held in due time and that preparations are being made. Candidacy Declarations will be opened soon and much like general elections, any and all citizens of the United States of dictators regardless of their race, gender, sexuality or religion are able to run. Also, Representatives and Senators are also eligible to run for the position.

Political Analysts say that they expect the election to be filled with former/current Senators and Representatives.

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