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Through eMalaysia’s history various approaches to governance and levels of transparency and accountability have been tried. The leadership and governance style of the President often is the defining player in the term’s achievements and effectiveness. Some presidents, like Nagyzee, have been able to engage congress and maintain open lines between congress and the executive to achieve prosperity and stability. Other presidents simply failed, and ran the executive in secret with no measures of transparency.

Erepublik is designed to be run as a presidential system, where the powers of the executive are separated from the legislature, and does not need to be responsible to the legislature or execute its policies. Although it does have its benefits in providing stability and speed to enact policy, in eMalaysia I belief it has out right failed us. Numerous times I have seen a congress without direction, as the elected leader of our nation decided to act in accordance with the presidential system, or simply fall into inactivity. Other times, I have seen congress approve multiple new policies and programs, and the executive simply failed to execute these or perhaps even know of them due to lack of coordination. Transparency and accountability has fell through the cracks, with congress in the past being unaware of what the cabinet has been doing. Only when the next election takes place do we realize the thefts committed against us.



This is why if elected President, I will employ certain good governance practices and measures for accountability and transparency. Firstly, if elected the government would be more closely modelled under a parliamentary system. The President will act as the leader of congress, providing direction for legislation and policy, and being an active part of the congress debates. This congress, led by the president, would be actively employed in developing a plan for the executive, and would be forced to look at the confines of the cabinet. At the start of the term (and hopefully adopted as simply congress convention) the executive will put together a realistic Revenue and Spending plan, similar to a national budget. The plans would use economic the economic data of eMalaysia as best as it can, but with Erepublik, a general idea of income and spending for the month is the main idea. The spending plan will include the programs the government will finance for the term. These plans will quickly be put up to congress to debate, amend and approve. Although it sounds like a fairly big and long process, the idea would be to quickly release these plans, and approved by congress within the first three to four days. This process also will play a meaningful role in engaging citizen involvement in determining and suggesting possible programs and changes to old programs.



The cabinet, on the other hand, will be held accountable to congress, and will be forced to maintain an open dialog with congress, further allowing immediate action on better governance and transparency and accountability. At the start of the term, each cabinet post will be required to take an inventory of the department and keep track of funding and expenses throughout the term, probably through a streamlined system on Google Docs. The congress will be able to check up on the expenditures of each department throughout the term, and spending quotes will be placed regularly on the forum for the full public to see.

The key throughout developing this new system will be balancing efficiency and effectiveness with transparency and accountability. As president, I would be taking this into account throughout the process of implementing new measures for better accountability and citizen involvement. As such, anything that seems to impede service would be put on hold, and congress would help work out new protocols.

Thank you,
Bryce S



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