Miscellaneous Political Parties Amendments

The “Party Leaders and Registration Act” shall be hereby removed. A new part shall be added into the Political Parties Act 2023, named “Party Leaders and Registration”, with one article with the same name, which shall read as follows:

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

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

§2.1. Even if the party has no such number of members with all leadership power, the state shall not recognize more than three (3) persons concurrently as Party Leader of a political party.

§2.2. Political parties may change who their Party Leader(s) is at any time using their own rules and procedures.

§3. A party leadership shall have the power to register users to run in elections on behalf of their political party. When using this power, a Party Leader or correspondent leadership 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 parties 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 leadership 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 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 or run as an independent. If the candidate remains silent then they shall be listed as an Independent on the ballot.

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

§6. A candidate can not run under the banner of an unregistered or non-existent party. If it happens, it shall be listed as an independent.

§7. For the purposes of this act, “party leadership” refers to the Party Leader or any member or council with the corresponding duty in accordance with their internal rules.

The following section of the Political Parties and Communities Act 2023 shall be repealed for redundancy:

§1. In the absence of internal rules directing otherwise, party leaders shall have the authority to officially expel members from the party.

The following section shall be added to Article 4 of the Political Parties and Communities Act 2023:

§2. Users with a party role on the discord server shall be considered affiliated and only be official members until accepted, following the internal rules of their parties.