Party Leader & Election Registration Act 2024

Party Leader & Election Registration Act

§1. The role of “Party Leader” shall be established.

§2. Every political party is required to have one person to be recognized by the state as Party Leader.

§2.1. If a political party does not have a Party Leader, then the party must be dissolved.

§2.2. The state shall not recognize more than one person concurrently as Party Leader of a political party concurrently.

§2.3. Each political party may decide on their Party Leader using their own rules and procedures.

§2.3.1. Political parties may change who their Party Leader is at any time using their own rules and procedures.

§2.4. When creating a new political party, one is required to declare a Party Leader immediately for their political party to be created.

§2.5. Political parties that have been established prior to this legislation becoming law shall have three days to decide who is their Party Leader. If a political party fails to do this within the set time frame then it will be dissolved.

§3. A Party Leader shall have the power to register users to run in elections on behalf of their political party. The choice to use this power or not is entirely the Party Leader’s. When using this power, a Party Leader must ping or tag the user(s) that they are registering.

§3.1. A candidate shall only be able to have one political party appear alongside them on the ballot.

§3.2. If multiple Party Leaders attempt to claim the same user as a candidate for their party and the candidate does not comment on this, the candidate shall be listed as an Independent on the ballot.

§4. Someone that has been claimed as a candidate for a political party may take any of the following actions.

§4.1. Accept the nomination and registration. This shall by default happen if the user remains silent and multiple parties have not claimed this user.

§4.2. Reject the nomination from this party, still choose to run, and decide to run with a different party or run as an independent.

§4.3. Reject running for office all together.

§5. If a user registers to run under a political party, the Party Leader may take any of the following actions.

§5.1. Accept that this user will be running under their party. This shall by default happen if the Party Leader remains silent.

§5.2. Deny that this user can run under their political party. In such a case, the candidate may choose a different party to run under. If the candidate remains silent then they shall be listed as an Independent on the ballot.

§5.2.1. A Party Leader may not order someone to be removed from the ballot that has registered on their own.