[MoE] All about Congress elections
Ministry of eBe Education
Dear eBelgian citizens,
In the previous article we told you about party elections. Now we will tell you in this article more about Congress and congressional elections.
What is Congress?
Congress is the main legislative body of eRepublik nations. It is the place where elected candidates for Congress decide about political, military and economical future of a country by proposing different Laws. These elected candidates are called congress members.
How to become a candidate for Congress?
To become a candidate, you must have at least 100 Experience points. There are two basic ways to reach the party page where you can put your Congress nomination. Between the 16th and 23rd of the month you can:
On the 24th the list for congressional candidates will be closed and the party president will have the ability to manage the position of the members on these lists, if the list has more than one candidate.
Only candidates for the top five parties will be allowed to run for office.
Country Presidents aren't allowed to run for Congress.
The party president will choose the candidates on 24th of the month in the following manner:
Voting process
Congressional elections are being held on 25th of every month. Citizens from each country vote for their preferred party to represent their country.
At 00:00 (eRepublik time) on the 26th of each month, the voting ends for the Congressional candidates. The final results are released 6 hours the next day as part of the Anti-Cheating Project undertaken by eRepublik Admin on Day 912 (May 20, 2010). From 00:00 to 06:00, there is a delay, during which the results for the election are displayed as Intermediate Results. The previous month's congress members keep their seats during this time, whilst Admin checks that no Multi-accounts were used to elected congress members. Rewards and Alerts are then sent to the members, if they are legitimately elected, and the results in the election are changed to Official results.
Why should you become a member of Congress?
It is an opportunity to enhance your skills while contributing to your country’s development. Members of Congress, with the help of the President, ensure the political and economic stability of the country.
As member of Congress you can propose the following:
Also Members of Congress can provide a Citizenship.
About laws:
For every proposed law, there will be a Debate link for the Congress members/President to specify a discussion area.
Like stated before, the Congress Members can propose only 2 laws in a mandate, while the Presidents can propose an unlimited number of laws.
If the law's voting process has not been finished, the same type of law can not be proposed.
The voting process period for each law is 24 hours.
In order for a law to pass, the majority of votes must be in-favor (in case of a tie, the law is considered to be rejected), even if only one vote has been expressed.
An exception is the President Impeachment law, that requires 66% in-favor votes out of the expressed votes.
The President can also vote the proposed laws. So, basically, the President and the Congress Members can vote once for each proposed law.
If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us.
co-Ministers of Education
Elynea, Trito Fisher
Comments
o7
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Voted. Great tutorial o/
V
Good tutorial 🙂
thank you, i want to be congressman one day 😃
v
Nice for those who are interested to get into politics in our country.
V.