NDMPATRIOTICPC Referendum

**The National Directorate, Ministries, and Prefectural Assemblies Transference of Responsibilities Including the Organisation of Two Island Commonwealths with Popular Committees** act is a referendum act that was submitted to the Long Palace legislature by Party Chief Etchasketch of the Mutualist Ouroboros Party on 31st January 2022 and confirmed into law through a national referendum on 12th Feburary the same year with 100% of the vote. The act focused on improving government structure and accountability, increasing the scope of powers of the Supreme Director, and installing a new administrative classification. The act recieved momentous support by multiple parties and the public and oversaw the disbandment of the Homonationalist Party of Easway and a major political shift in Easway as the MOP gained new members became the dominant party, success it had not seen since befoere its disbandment in June of 2020.

The Act

Contents

The act contains seven articles (a nod to the Seven Masts) detailing the changes to each individual impacted sector.

Article One, THE NDMPATRIOTICPC Act

Article one lays out the abreviation reference of the act made up of the first letters of the title. The "PATRIOT" within the abbreviation is a contrived acronym.

Article Two, Contents

Article two explains the broad range of things that the act seeks to amend in the constitution. These changes include; reforming the National and Supreme Directorate, changing the powers of a Directorate and Ministry, change the process of a Directorate passing a directive into law, creating a Popular Committee) (expanding on the legacy of the People's Committees), and changing the names of Island Regions to Island Commonwealths and making them the official first level administrative division below the Realm.

Article Three, National and Supreme Directorate

The first provision of the article was that the healthcare responsibilities of the then Director of Healthcare & Education would be transfered from a regional responsibility (the Directorate-level) to a Realm-level government with the then Minister of Development becoming the Minister of Healthcare & Developmemt. The Directorate was to gain new recreational responsibilities and became the Director of Education & Recreation. Etchasketch argued in the chambers of the Long Palace that a unified direction and national funding for a public healthcare service was necessary for a swift and effective service.
The act stated that the Supreme Director in times where another Directorate was vacant of a representative would automatically assume the roles of that Directorate and ability to pass related Directives as a caretaker representative until a new representative for that Directorate was elected. This idea had originally been suggested in the past by Party Chief Teireet of the MOP's allying party, the Federalistic Easwegian Voters’ Association. The article also stated that the National Directorate elections which previously had always taken place every 6 months in June and December were to be moved to March and December, arguing they should not coincide around the elections of the Imperial Council.

Article Four, Ministerial Powers

This article appointed healthcare responsibilities to the Ministry of Development, making it the Ministry of Healthcare & Development. Easwegians, usually sceptical of perceived centralisation of powers took exemption to this proposal as they saw it as the Ministry gaining much needed extra powers (previously seen by some as the lowest tiered Ministry within the Council), whilst seeing nationalisation in the healthcare sector as positive for the people. The act named the nationalised healthcare service as the Realm's Health Service, or Realmshealth or RHS for short under the Ministry's administration. It also stated that changes to the status of the RHS were to be initiated by majority vote of the Imperial Council.

Article Five, Prefectural Assembly

The Prefectural Assemblies of each Island Region were given the power to vote on Directives proposed by Directorates of each respective Island region. This would be exclusive to the respective island region. This was done as the then system which was set up so Directors couldn't act as free agents and were required to get authorisation by the Emperor to pass directives was seen as too dictatorial. It would also free up more of the Emperor's time to exclusively handle more state matters.

Article Six, Popular Committees

The act established Populular Committees throughout the Realm. The act stated that these would be official democratic organisations at every administrative level of government made up of the people within the Prefectures, Municipalities, Islands and Realm. It was stated that they would form to discuss administrative law, including bargaining of taxation, budgeting, public works, art projects, and implementation of regional laws. PCs would also have the ability to arrange political surgeries with their related represenatives to shape and author bills for the Long Palace. Transparency and democracy was a key point of establishing Popular Committees in the act, which allowed 40% signatures of a Realm-level Popular Committee for a national referendum and 45% of a respected representative of an administrative region to recall them for a by-election.

Article Seven, Island Commonwealths

This article stated that the Island Regions of Bear Island and the Pomors Strait were to become Island Commonwealths and the highest administrative division under the Realm.