President Miestra recently released an audio visual speech to a joint session of parliament (Deputies and Senators) which is still taking place on Wittenberg. In her speech, the first of its kind to be released in that format, she highlighted the need for active citizens to respect less active citizens who still vote in elections. In order to keep activity going, she suggests that ‘there should always be something going on in the forums’, and that Deputies and Senators should accept responsibility to be more active than other citizens. Her words are inspiring and motivational but the vague aspect to her ambition might not ignite the flame of activity on the forums that she desires in her final year of Presidency.
The President also announced that she was happy to extend the coalition government in the Chamber of Deputies between the Defencist and Democratic Socialist parties, and that an ‘Electoral Reform’ bill will soon be presented to parliament, in which the ‘Open Party List’ electoral system will be proposed. The President also announced that as part of the electoral reform package, a week’s campaigning period will be set up between the close of nominations and the new one week voting period (proposed by the Democratic Socialist Party, and heavily criticised in the upper house).
Also, in a twist to her announcements, and probably in an effort to speed up getting things done, Miestra also proposed the formation of two new presidential commissions. A ‘Legislative Reform’ commission will sort out the federal code and executive orders by deleting and modifying them, and there will also be a commission on national web space. These commissions have, however, failed to materialise as of yet.
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