Sixth Republic Referendum

3rd of July 2022

## Background

The idea of a Sixth Republic had long since been conceived ever since the Adorian Federation was founded on April 27th 2022. Most predominantly CJ Gvizdod had drafted a proposal of his own for a 6th Republic. On November 25th 2021, President Daniel issued a presidential decree calling for a referendum on the draft. The proposal described a unitary state that had an upper house Senate consisting of all Governors and their Lieutenants, along with having all laws required to be promulgated, *posted in #passed-legislation*, by the President. This decree would be nullified by the Election Commission for not including how long Parliamentary terms are, unintentionally proposing a long-parliament model. The President and Chief Justice would not attempt to amend this and thus the referendum was never held coinciding with the 64th general election.

The movement for a 6th Republic would remain fringe until April 2022, it is here when Lavandi separatism would begin to pick up steam and in equal reaction the SDP would come as supportive of a 6th Republic, bringing the movement back into the mainstream. On April 27th 2022, President Reeves would issue a decree calling for a referendum on a constitution drafted by Meow Zedong. Reeves would soon however withdraw this EO as many would oppose reforming the States into Administrative Districts whose Governors would be appointed by the NA instead of elected by each State. This removal of local democracy would cause President Reeves and NA Speaker Zedong to stand down.

Zedong however would not be finished with his ambitions and would call for anyone with grievances toward the new constitution to DM him. Replacing the Constitution would require a 2/3rds referendum while a constitutional amendment would only require a 2/3rds NA vote. Zedong would use this as the basis of his next attempt of enacting the 6th republic via amendment, which he would attempt in the 75th National Assembly on May 5th 2022.

This attempt would also prove unpopular as it still kept the undemocratic administrative divisions. A coalition of every other party would stop the bill from reaching the required 2/3rds. Instead it would fail the next day with only **62.69%** voting in favor. In retrospect Zedong would state that he had intended to include provincial democracy but had forgotten to amend the proposal.

## Constitutional Convention

After this 2nd failure Zedong would rest before again attempting an effort 2 months later. On June 27th 2022, the 6th Republic Constitutional Convention begin as a collection of all party leaders, governors, and other high-profile political elites. They would all assemble under the goal to adopt a new constitution that could deliver satisfying political victories to both the Left and Right.

The convention would settle on using the German FRG constitution as a base template. Issues would focus on increasing the voting age from 16 to 21, which would ultimately fail. Originally conceived as the *Sixth Federal Republic* it would be shorten to simply *Sixth Republic* however this would give the impression of the Left having succeeded in their aim of Unitarianism which would upset the federalist faction of the convention who would suggest the name *Second Federation* or simply the original proposal of *Sixth Federal Republic*, and so the originally proposed name would be returned. The requirement for all Chief Justices to be Independent would be absent from the SFR proposal. It would also be decided to rename the Prime Minister to Chancellor simply just for the aesthetic change. However government formations would now be different with each government's chancellor now having to face a vote of confidence ahead of each government formation.

A Gubernatorial veto would also be added where if each each province votes in 2/3rds to veto a federal bill than the bill shall be vetoed. This can be overridden by a 2/3rds NA vote. Water infrastructure would be codified as a concurrent power.

## Referendum

On June 30th, 2022 deliberation would finish and all parties except the CSM, which was very inactive at the time, supported the new constitution. With this President KA would issue an EO calling for a referendum. This EO however would be void as it did not include a referendum name so 2 days later KA would reissue the EO styled as the ***Sixth Republic Referendum***. The EC would hold the referendum on July 3rd 2022 as the ***Third Adorian Constitutional Referendum***. This would cause some confusion as it seemed to undermine the EC being so strict about the EO including a referendum name only to ignore it. After concluding on July 4th 2022, results would be released after a brief **7** hour wait to a turnout of **9.78%**. It is the lowest turnout and biggest landslide in Adorian referendum history.

 No
 Abstain
 Total
 Citizen

## Aftermath

On July 5th 2022, the new constitution would officially be implemented by the server staff officially beginning the 6th Federal Republic. This would mark the end of the Adorian Federation which had been the longest era of Adoria yet lasting 14 months. The 6th Federal Republic would also be the first original constitution built from nothing since the 4th Republic constitution 26 months ago.

## See Also

* 3rd Constitutional Referendum
* Adorian Federation Referendum
* 75th Adorian Election
* 76th Adorian Election
* 80th Adorian Election

## Pledges

Upon the completion of the Sixth Federal Republic Constitution final draft the delegates would be asked to sign it pledging to promote its passing:

* Lady Alice, UWF Deputy
* Yannick, Governor of Libeccio
* Shennogo, Leader of the AFP, Governor of Lavanda Islands, incoming Prime Minister
* Nepo, Governor of Mediterraneo
* Liimur, Leader of the ANP
* Bossman, Leader of the SDP, Outgoing Prime Minister
* King Adoria, Leader of the KAB, President of Adoria
* LastCelebration, Independent MNA, Former President