WE the members of the Partì da Reformaziun of the Kingdom of Talossa do hereby adopt this Charter as the basis of our Party’s governance.
ARTICLE I. MEMBERSHIP
A. Membership in the Party shall be open to Talossan Citizens in good standing.
B. Application to the Cäps Naziunal will be sufficient to admit new members to the Party.
C. A 2/3 vote can be used to expel members from the Party for violations of Organic Law or other Talossan statute law, as well as gross violations of general standards of decorum. In the event of a Party member’s loss of citizenship, this vote may be omitted and their membership immediately revoked.
ARTICLE II. PARTY BUSINESS
A. The Party shall maintain a Discord server for communication and Party business.
- 1. This server shall have channels open to the public, as well as channels reserved for Party members and the conduct of private Party business.
- 2. All proposals, motions, and nominations shall take place in the "Talkeu dal Partì" channel.
- 3. All party-wide votes shall take place in the "Cabină per Voteirs" channel.
- 4. This Charter shall be maintained in its own read-only channel for clarity and ease of reference.
B. Measures shall be adopted by the Party using a parliamentary-like procedure.
- 1. All motions must receive a second before proceeding to debate.
- 2. Motions are debated for forty-eight hours.
- 3. Voting runs for ninety-six hours following the debate period.
- 4. Aye votes shall be represented via the “Thumbs Up” reaction, Nay votes via the “Thumbs Down” reaction, and Present votes via the “Raised Hand” reaction.
- 5. Amendments to this Charter shall pass with a 2/3 vote. All other motions shall pass by majority.
- 6. Should a vote reach the requisite number of Ayes to guarantee its passage prior to the end of the debate period, debate shall close and the motion shall be said to have “fast passed”. Should a vote reach the requisite number of Nays to prevent its passage prior to the end of the debate, it shall be said to have “fast failed” in the same manner.
- 7. The Cäps Naziunal is not required to approve the motion for it to take effect, but is entitled to vote on the issue as a Party member.
ARTICLE III. PARTY ADMINISTRATION
A. The Party shall be headed by a Cäps Naziunal (in English, the Chairperson).
- 1. The term of office of the Cäps Naziunal shall end on the first day of a month in which a regularly-scheduled Cosa election commences.
- 2. There is no limit on the number of terms one may serve as Cäps Naziunal.
- 3. Elections for the Chair shall be conducted among the Comità Esecutorxheu, with candidates taken from among the members of the same.
- 4. Elections for the Chairmanship shall last a full ninety-six hours.
- 5. The Cäps Naziunal shall be elected by a majority of votes cast. Should no candidates receive a majority of the vote, a runoff election between the two candidates with the most votes shall immediately commence, and shall last an additional seventy-two hours.
- 6. Candidacy for the Chairmanship shall be open to any member of the Comità Esecutorxheu who has been an accepted Party member for no less than sixty days.
- 7. The Cäps Naziunal shall be responsible for the overall conduct of Party business, including the conduct of primary elections, appointments to Party administration positions, facilitation of internal Party debate, oversight of the official Party Platform and Cosa candidate list, and presiding over the Comità Esecutorxheu.
- 8. The Cäps Naziunal shall be removed from office upon the success of a Motion of No Confidence, passed via two-thirds majority of the Comità Esecutorxheu and ratified by a majority vote of the Party membership.
- 9. The Cäps Naziunal shall serve as the Party's leader and Seneschal candidate in the Cosa, unless they appoint another to that position. They must make such an appointment if they themselves are not a Member of the Cosa.
B. The Cäps Atxutind (in English, the Vice Chairman) shall assist the Cäps Naziunal in the discharge of his responsibilities and act in his place as circumstances may require.
- 1. Should the Cäps Naziunal be removed from office, the Cäps Atxutind shall become Cäps Naziunal.
- 2. The same requirements for the Chairmanship shall be applied to the Vice Chairmanship.
C. The Comità Esecutorxheu (in English, the Executive Committee) shall serve as the Party’s national committee.
- 1. The Comità is composed of the Cäps Provincial (in English, the Provincial Chair) for each province.
- 2. The term of office of each Cäps Provincial shall end on the fifteenth day of a month prior to a month in which a regularly-scheduled Cosa election commences.
- 3. Elections for each Cäps Provincial shall follow the same format as the election for Cäps Naziunal.
- 4. Candidacy for Cäps Provincial shall be open to all Party members in a given province who have been an accepted Party member for no less than thirty days.
- 5. Any Party member who is the sole member of the Party within their respective province shall also automatically be made Cäps Provincial for that province.
- 6. Each Cäps Provincial shall serve as the Party's leader within their respective provincial legislature, as well as their candidate for any provincial executive office. However, they do not automatically serve as the Party's candidate for Senator from their province.
- 7. In the event two or more provinces are merged, any Cäpsilor Provinciais of the former provinces shall retain their position as "co-Cäps" within their newly-mutual province for the remainder of that term.
- 8. In the event a province is divided into two or more provinces, the Cäps Provincial of the pre-division province shall serve as Cäps Provincial of all the resulting provinces in question until the end of that term.
D. The Party Recruitment Officer is charged with efforts to increase and retain the Party’s membership.
E. The Party Whip is a position that oversees the Party's delegation to the Cosa. The Whip is responsible for ensuring a united response by the Party to motions proposed in the Cosa, if the proposal involves an official stance taken by the Party.
F. The terms of appointed Party positions come to an end with the completion of an election for Cäps Naziunal.
ARTICLE IV. ADOPTION
This Charter shall come into effect following a 96-hour debate period and a 2/3 vote in favor by the Party membership.
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