Reform

**Reforms** are generally actions that change the way the government of Sordland functions in *Suzerain*. They may take the form of constitutional amendments.

## Constitutional Amendment Reforms

### Presidential Vetoes

The Presidential Veto is a controversial law, allowing the President to veto any bills the assembly passes. This constitutional amendment is seen as controversial, because it allows the President Soll to block popular reforms from being passed. There are five possible variants on this amendment.

* ***Standard Veto**:* This is the beginning veto law. A holdover from the Soll constitution, this effectively allows the President to impede the popular bills from passing and as such, many Reformists want to see it limited or removed. You can only keep an unlimited Presidential Veto in a dictator constitution or an Autocrat emergency path.
* ***Pocket Veto:*** This reform is only available in Dictator constitutions, with the President's veto powers being completely removed. However, there is no time limit on how long the President can delay signing the bill, effectively giving him a pocket veto. This reform is dictator constitutions, as it allows you to portray you constitutional reforms as democratic and giving you extra public opinion. Realistically, this would mean that your successor would be able to pass any of the bills that you sat on, however since the game is only one term it doesn't apply.
* ***Limited Veto (2/3):*** This reform is only available in dictator constitutions. This limits the Presidential Veto, however the Assembly must have a two third majority (or 166/250) to overrule the veto. However, a two third majority is extremely hard if not impossible to gather with over half of the assembly being in the party of the President, and can only realistically be achieved if Rayne displeases both the reformist and conservative blocs of the USP.
* ***Limited Veto (3/5):*** This reform is only available in a reformist constitution. Similarly to the (2/3) restriction, this reform keeps the veto power of the president but makes the threshold for overruling it to be three fifths (or 150/250) which is much more achievable and much more democratic.
* ***No Veto:*** This reform is only available in Reformist constitution and completely abolishes the Veto power of the President. This significantly weakens the power of the executive and displeases the conservatives, for it gives the assembly complete power to pass laws where the conservatives are in a minority.

### Constitutional Amendment Process

* ***Remove Supreme Court's Vote**:* Constitutional Amendments will no longer require the vote of the Supreme Court. In previous versions, may have made Constitution harder to pass.

### Impeachment Process

* ***Assembly and Supreme Court may impeach:*** Enables impeachment if Supreme Court and Assembly (with 2/3 majority) concur. This is a harder way for them to impeach you.
* ***Assembly may impeach:*** Requires a two-thirds majority vote in the Grand National Assembly
* ***The President may not be impeached:*** Sounds nice.
* ***Do not change:*** As is, only the Supreme Court has the ability to impeach you. May or may not be an issue depending on your path.

### Appointment of Ministers

* ***Confidence vote will be required:*** President may nominate Ministers, requiring confidence vote from the Assembly before appointment.
* ***Grand National Assembly may nominate ministers:*** Assembly may nominate a list of Ministers, from which the President may appoint.
* ***Do not change:*** President appoints Ministers from Grand National Assembly, requiring no confidence vote from the Assembly.

### Electoral Threshold

* ***Decrease threshold to 8%:*** Allows Workers Party of Bludia and Communist Party of Sordland into Assembly.
* ***Decrease threshold to 3%:*** Allows many smaller parties into Assembly, greatly weakening USP.
* ***Do not change:*** Party needs a minimum of 10% of the national vote to win Assembly seats, then seats are distributed proportionately.
* ***Increase threshold to 15%:*** To get this, in the first meeting with Lucian and Petr, say on increasing presidential powers, say let us increase threshold.

### Presidential Decrees

* ***Decrees require Enabling Act:*** Gotta ask the Assembly first.
* ***Remove decrees:*** No Emergency Powers for you.
* ***Do not change:*** Pass laws as you will.
* ***Decrees not subject to review:*** Unchecked executive power. Needed to pass the more powerful decrees.

### Term Limits

* ***Two terms:*** No more Soll-repeats.
* ***Do not change:*** You love power, and this will be hated by the reformists.

### Immunity of Justices

* ***Judges can be impeached by Assembly:*** Requires 2/3 majority.
* ***Do not change:*** Nia Morgana supports this option, arguing long term judicial independence is more important than kicking out the Sollists.

### Honorary Membership of Tarquin Soll

* ***Abolish:*** The conservatives will not be pleased, unless you give assurances that Soll will not be tried.
* ***Every President:*** Significantly displeases practically everyone.
* ***Abolish immunity, retain position:*** Basically the same thing as abolishing the Membership, except that the conservatives and Sollists will be a bit supportive to you.
* ***Do not change:*** Sollists and conservatives will be pleased, but reformists and liberals will not be too happy.