President Rach Signs WA Reform Into Law




President Rach Signs WA Reform Into Law
Delegate Aexnidaral Reconfirmed
Written by GraVandius







(Europeia - January 2, 2018) - Last Sunday President Rach signed the World Assembly Act (2017) into law. This ended a month long journey for the proposed reforms.

The journey began on December 3, 2017 with a group of prominent WA stakeholders coming together to propose large structural changes to the previous World Assembly Act. The group published this platform during the Senate campaign and exacted electoral clout to make sure it's supporters were elected to the senate. The campaign worked spectacularly with every single candidate it endorsed being chosen by the voters.

It was thus a priority for the new senators, and both proposed bills were brought to the Senate floor immediately following the conclusion of the Speaker election. The first bill, World Assembly Affairs Amendment (2017), was a constitutional amendment that simply added World Assembly Affairs to the list of areas the president shall have specific authority and appoint ministers to oversee. Since this basically formalized the existence of the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs the Senate was quick to pass it.

The discussion on the new WA Act took much longer to hash out, even with all the Senators approving of the legislation's main change, to make the Delegate appointed by the president. The first issue tackled was the former section twelve of the proposed legislation. This section would have given the president the power to decide how the delegate votes in anyway imaginable. Speaker GraVandius, Senator Malashaan and current WA Delegate Aexnidaral Seymour spent the first few days hashing out a compromise. The end result was expanding the president's power to direct the delegate to vote a certain way on GA resolutions, while still mandating that the vote take place in absence of such a directive.

The discussion next moved to less fundamental and more bookkeeping matters. Wording was adjusted to make sure appointed delegate and anyone who anyone not appointed to the delegacy, but holding the game-side position could not vote contrary to the system the legislation set up. Other language was changed to mirror parts of the process of reconfirmation of the Director of the Europeian Intelligence Agency. This was done to make sure the Office was not vacant during a reconfirmation hearing at the end of the 180-day term. The final tweak came from former Delegate Moronist Decisions, and focused on adding a list for instances in which the Office of the Deputy Delegate would be declared vacant.

Finally, after some more minor formatting changes the World Assembly Act (2017) was passed unanimously by the Senate on December 29 2017. Following an affirmative Legislative Recomendation from the Attorney General the bill was finally made law.

The current Delegate Aexnidaral had the following to say about the achievement:
"I'm ecstatic that this reform has been signed into law so expediently. Frankly, this law is the culmination of the policy we've been evolving towards over the past several months since the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs was created. I'm glad we can rest easily knowing that our reforms aren't just a handshake agreement anymore: they're the law. This is a great opportunity for future presidents to be able to expand our foreign policy agenda and goals within the realm of the World Assembly, where we can work with so many unique individuals, and regions."

Aex certainly has a lot of things to be ecstatic about as following the passage of the law, President Rach promptly nominated him for reconfirmation as Delegate. With the majority of the Senate giving it's approval, I'm sure he looks foward to the next 180 days under the new system.
 
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