Here is the link to the map of the Earthly Cities having an Asgardian "Mayor": http://bit.ly/Mayors102018

This map was made according to the list of Mayors attached to Decree 26 ( http://bit.ly/Decree26-list ).

Remember to vote for your favorite Mayoral candidate in your own city!
To do so:
1) Follow this link: https://asgardia.space/en/mayoral-elections/around-the-world
2) Under the heading "Election Status", click on "Your electoral region"
3) Click on the profile(s) of the candidate(s) in your electoral region to read their platforms
4) If there are no candidates: apply to become Mayor yourself!!

October 12th came again in Kuala Lumpur! Last year four followers had managed to gather together to celebrate and this year, it suddenly was eight of us getting together to celebrate Asgardia’s second Birthday!! Yes, already two years!

It was in Paris that on October 12th 2016, that the scientist, businessman and philanthropist Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli announced the founding of Asgardia the Space Nation. Well, two years down the road , Asgardia not only has a Constitution, a democratically elected Head of Nation, a flag, a national anthem and a coat of arms, Asgardia now has a satellite  Asgardia1 representing its first territory in space, a fully functioning elected Parliament of currently 127 Members that has already held two sessions, one physical and one virtual , has voted on several laws and has finalised its 12 permanent parliamentary committees ; a Prime Minister who is currently forming her first Cabinet of Ministers to be announced by the end of this year 2018 ; a Supreme Justice appointed during the First Parliamentary session of Parliament that was held in Vienna in June 2018, and in a few hours, Asgardian Mayors from various cities all around the globe establishing Asgardia's official presence in 44 earthly cities around the globe!

Remembering all of these achievements, eight courageous Asgardian followers came from different parts of Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, to mark this second anniversary with a cheerful get together in KLCC, the beating heart of Malaysia, at the feet of the Twin Towers. Among us were a PhD candidate in space studies, a student of economics, a student of electrical engineering, a university lecturer, a high school student, a chiropractic doctor, a team manager for a Malaysian nation wide company and a software engineer. It is the Urbean Café that welcomed us and allowed us to celebrate this event.

We discussed on some of the achievements of our Nation, its current affairs and its short and long term future developments. While some of us have been long time Asgardians, others had just signed up on http://asgardia.space a few days before and still others had just heard about the First Space Nation a few hours before the meeting! All were cheerful and happy to finally meet in real life other Asgardian followers!

From the Inauguration of our Head of Nation at the Hofburg palace in Vienna on June 25th , I had kept the copy of the National Anthem that was then given to me as a guest and I shared some copies of the document with all of us and so, with the help of the recording available online, we rehearsed the anthem once and then went to sing it together outside of the café , in front of the emblematic Petronas Towers. It is there that we had a short session of pictures together, enjoying an evening out without monsoon and with a few stars. But then came the time to say our goodbyes promising to meet again very soon!

It was a beautiful moment of unity. Sharing about our lives and backgrounds, we realised that we had in our little group not less than 5 earthly nationalities from 3 continents and that yet, we were all united with the same vision! “One Humanity, One Unity”!

As Dr. Ashurbeyli concluded in his Head of Nation inaugural speech, we might not be the best but "we are the future.”
I believe he is right, we are the future!

Happy second Birthday ASGARDIA !!!

If the elections were ending now, how many potential Mayors would we have?

As we are approaching the final day of the First general Mayoral elections of Asgardia's History, here are some statistics, less than 62 hours before the voting ends.

In Decree 20 from July 30th 2018, our Head of Nation announced the Mayoral Elections. The Decree specified that after having successfully submitted their platforms, candidates had to fulfil two conditions to be eligible by the end of the period of the elections:

* they must be running for Mayorship in a town that ends up having at least 100 Asgardian Residents (by September 9th 23:59 UTC)

* and they must have paid the compulsory application fee of 100 euros in full by that same date and time.

At the time of writing of this blog post (Friday 1pm UTC), there are exactly 1.037 candidates for Mayorship across the globe.

Among these candidates, only 7.4% (77 candidates) have paid in full their 100€ fee.

Among these 77 persons, only 43 of them are candidates in cities that have a population of more than 100 Asgardian Residents.

Here is the list of the cities of these 43 candidates, showing the one with the highest Asgardian Residents population first:

(City/ Country/ Number of candidates having paid the fee in that city/ Number of Asgardian Residents registered to vote in that City)

As you can see, at this time, there are only 3 cities (Vienna, Austria; Toronto, Canada and San Francisco, USA) where there are more than one valid candidate (2 actually) creating serious competition to garner votes from their constituents. Let's wish them good luck knowing that the best and most suitable candidate will win!
The candidates of all other cities are either the only candidates in their city or are competing with other candidates who have not paid their 100€ fee yet!

That also means that among the 77 candidates who have paid their 100€ fee in full, 34 of them have not been able at this time to raise up the number of Asgardian Residents of the City where they have applied to become a Mayor to reach the 100 threshold defined as the rule of the Elections...

TO CONCLUDE
If the elections were to end today, we would only have 37 Mayors elected after the Central Electoral Commission validation (according to the rules set alongside Decree 20).
These numbers are very low because 92.6% of the Candidates have not paid in full their 100€ fee...
How can you help in these elections for them to have a better outcome?
First, by reminding your favorite candidate that they need to pay their 100€ candidate fee!
Then, if they tell you they're having some difficulties paying it, you can actually offer to help them out by paying their fee in full (that would be nice of you!) or just offer to contribute in part (you can pay by increments of 10€ at a time). If you don't know how to do that, check the link below.

If more Candidates pay their fees before Sunday midnight (UTC time), that would then allow more Cities to have an Asgardian Mayor for these first Asgardian Mayoral Elections in the History of our Nation!

Here is a link indicating how you can vote and how you can contribute in paying the fee of your favorite candidate: Elections of Asgardia's Mayors Guide

Thank you for voting and for supporting your Candidate!

Dear fellow Asgardian Residents of the City of Kuala Lumpur and around!

Ever wondered how many we are? What our demographics are?
Well, don't wonder any longer!
Here are a few statistics of the population of our area gathered from the Asgardia Statistics Page in a 10km radius of Kuala Lumpur according to the data provided to the website by the Residents themselves upon signing up as retrieved and compiled in the afternoon of Monday September 3rd, 2018, Malaysian time.

How many are we in Malaysia, both West and East Malaysia?
We currently are 3.318 people to have registered an account to become Asgardian Residents having chosen "Malaysia" as our country of Residence.

Among them, how many live in or around Kuala Lumpur (10km radius)?
Among these 3.318, we currently are 1.179 adult Asgardian Residents to live in Kuala Lumpur or within a 10km radius of KL. That represents 35.6% of all Asgardian Residents who have chosen to register their profile in Malaysia.

Here is a table indicating all the areas that were chosen at the time of signing up:
(sorted by alphabetical order with the percentage of the total number of adult Asgardian Residents within a 10km radius of KL)

Hm... it appears that a majority of us live in Kuala Lumpur itself ( 60% ) while others mainly live in "Selangor" (whatever that means!), PJ, Puchong, Kajang, Seri Kembangan and Ampang!

What is the average age of the adult Residents in KL and around?

The youngest adults among us are obviously 18 years old while our oldest Resident is 72 years old! The average age of the adult Residents living in and around KL is 30 years of age .
We also have a few youngsters who have registered (26 of them to be precise, between age 9 and 17).

What languages are most widely spoken among the Asgardian Residents of KL and around KL?

With no surprise, English is the most widely spoken language among the Asgardian Residents of the Greater Kuala Lumpur with over 95% of the Asgardian Residents who mentioned it as one of the languages they can communicate with.
Second is Chinese (Simplified) that was indicated by 62.9% of the Asgardian Residents!
Malay comes third, having been indicated by 31.6% of the Asgardian Residents of the Greater KL.

That's it for today! I hope these numbers will help you get to know our community better!
Comment below, add me as a friend and/or contact me on Facebook if you'd like to interact with other Asgardian Residents of the Greater KL!!

Sometimes, in order to join a public or private group related to Asgardia on social media sites, you may be asked to provide a link pointing to your asgardia.space profile to show you are really registered as a future Citizen of the Space Nation of Asgardia. In the future, the Asgardian Mayor of your city will also need to have access to that information to verify your profile and be able to ascertain that the information you provided on the website is accurate in order to start the verifications necessary for the granting of your Asgardian Citizenship.

Whatever the reason may be, getting that information is not as straightforward as it could be: when you click on your name or your picture in a post on this asgardia.space website, it doesn't send you to your profile for you to copy its own address, no, it sends you to the "edit page" of your profile!

So, how to get the link to your own profile?

Over the months, through the many updates our asgardia.space website has known, there have been several different ways to get that link. I will only share here the one that seems to be the current (as of August 19th 2018) easiest and most universal way to get it from a computer or a mobile phone.

From a computer:
Click on the upper left part of your screen on the "Global Search" tab and type the exact name you provided on your profile at the time of registration. Your picture and name should appear on the list. Don't click on it otherwise you would be sent directly to the "edit page" of your profile! Instead, right-click the link over your name/picture and select "Copy Link Address" or equivalent in the chosen language of your computer.
Now, you just need to "paste" that link somewhere for later reference. Et voilà !

From a mobile phone:
Tap on the upper part of your screen on the blue circular icon showing a white magnifying glass. A "Global Search" tab should appear right below. Tap on that tab and type the exact name you provided on your profile at the time of registration. Now, validate. Your picture and name should appear on the list. Don't tap on it otherwise you would be sent directly to the "edit page" of your profile! Instead, make a prolonged tap on your name/picture and select "Copy Link" or equivalent in the list that appears in the chosen language of your mobile phone. As a confirmation that it is done, it should say something like "copied to your clipboard".
Now, you just need to "paste" that link somewhere for later reference (with a prolonged tap in a space where you can type text). Et voilà !

[If you find this tip useful, please leave a like or a comment below. If you would like to be informed when I post other tips/blog posts, please add me as a friend and you will be informed in your notifications each time I make a new post!]

In the evening of Wednesday, May 9th, I received a message from Administration informing me that, as an elected Member of Parliament, I had been placed “under review” as a consequence of multiple complaints about some of my posts/activities in the last few weeks preceding that message.

No timeline about that review was given in the message.

It was informing me that as a consequence, and until that review would be over, I would not be able to join the other Members of Parliament Elect and work on the SLACK platform created for us on which we have been invited to gather and work to prepare for the first Parliamentary session to take place on June 24th in Vienna.

I was offered the option to either choose to keep that review quiet or decide by myself whomever I wanted to share this piece of news with.

In a spirit of transparency, I decided to share, with my constituents and with the other Asgardians who might be wondering what is happening, the extent of my current situation.

Still in that spirit of transparency, I also decided to render public, to that effect, the reply to be sent to the person from Administration who had informed me about that review. That message is posted here below as a reply to that post and has already been posted on the Facebook group "Asgardia General Official".

Dear fellow Asgardian Citizens!

We're back for our fourth update, less than an hour from the end of the First Parliamentary Elections of Asgardia!!

DISCLAIMER : this is like a screenshot of the elections at a given time. Please note that the data change all the time (new votes are added or removed) and therefore might get outdated really quickly! The information that follows is based on the data retrieved from https://asgardia.space/en/asgardians/?mp=on&page=1 at the above mentioned date and time.

Reminder: the elections have been announced to end at Midnight Paris time (France) . That means March 9th 11pm UTC .

Here is how the voting progress has gone throughout the day:

March 9th, 09:47 UTC
252 candidates 22298 votes

March 9th, 16:45 UTC
251 candidates 22694 votes

Sergei Menshchikov changed his candidacy to become a Government Candidate.
He was then in position 9 with a gap of 25 votes at the time to make it to the 6th seat of District #7 - Russian and have a chance to join the next stage of the election process, namely the interview with the CEC and the Head of Nation personal endorsement.

We wish him good luck as a Government Candidate!

March 9th, 19:10 UTC
251 candidates 23001 votes

March 9th, 20:15 UTC
251 candidates 23063 votes

March 9th, 21:20 UTC
251 candidates 23162 votes

Below, you will find a table answering the following questions:

What is the age average of the Candidates in each District?
How many Candidates can be elected for each District?
How many Candidates are actually running in each District?
How many votes would it take to be elected?**

• (1) *PLEASE NOTE: being among the candidates with the most votes making them within the number of seats available in the District they run in doesn’t make them Members of Parliament. It makes them eligible to go to the next stage of the process of the elections: the interview with the Central Electoral Commission and the Head of Nation.
• (2) **It was announced, at the time the Candidates who were running for the leadership elections were transferred to the Parliamentary elections, that for their candidacy to be valid, a candidate needed then to have at least 3 votes. We speculate here with that same number.

That's it for this post! In a few minutes, the voting should be closed and Candidates will only have to… hold their breath until April 1st , when the list of names of the First Parliament of Asgardia will be rendered public!

Last important piece of info, the link to go back to vote and a reminder HURRY YOU HAVE ONLY MINUTES LEFT TO VOTE!!!!
– you cast as many as 150 votes for as many as 150 candidates for Parliament. So, choose your team in Parliament!

– go vote now! >>> https://asgardia.space/en/elections-districts/

Dear fellow Asgardian Citizens!

Back for our third update, one day before the end of our elections. We’ll first see today the progression of votes based on data retrieved today, March 8th, 7:34am UTC.
And today, we will show interesting data about the languages of our candidates.

DISCLAIMER : this should be considered as a screenshot of the elections, a snapshot taken at a given time. Please note that data change all the time (new votes can be added or removed all the time) and therefore might get outdated really quickly! The information that follows is based on the data retrieved from https://asgardia.space/en/asgardians/?mp=on&page=1 at the above mentioned date and time. I will provide updates every few hours on my blog. Stay tuned, enjoy, and please leave comments below!

How many Parliamentary Candidates were running on March 8th, 7:34am UTC?

There were 252 Parliamentary Candidates.

How many votes had been cast at that time?

There were 20702 votes cast over the 13 language Districts and the 252 candidates.

What has the progression of votes been over the last 48 hours?

Languages

As you can see in our table above, we have some monolingual candidates (meaning, they can only speak one language) but we also have many polyglots!

Number of candidates who listed only one language on their profile:   64

Number of candidates who listed two languages on their profile:         97

Number of candidates who listed three languages on their profile:       49

Number of candidates who listed four languages on their profile:         24

Number of candidates who listed five languages on their profile:          12

Number of candidates who listed six languages on their profile:             5

Number of candidates who listed seven languages on their profile:        0

Number of candidates who listed eight languages on their profile:          1

How many Parliamentary Candidates are running under a District which language they have not listed?

Number of candidates who are running in a district which language they haven’t mentioned on their profiles:
Turkish (1 candidate)
French (1 candidate)
Arabic (3 candidates)
Portuguese (1 candidate)
Other (4 candidates)

That's it for this post! Once again, if you would like to see other information compiled in the data, feel free to make your request in the comments below. I cannot promise it will be feasible but if it is possible to do so by contrasting and compiling the available updated data, I will do it for you!
Next update in a few hours... I'll keep you posted!

Last important piece of info, the link to go back to vote and a reminder as our election ends tomorrow, March 9th:
– you cast as many as 150 votes for as many as 150 candidates for Parliament. So, choose your team in Parliament!

– so, go vote now! >>> https://asgardia.space/en/elections-districts/

Dear fellow Asgardian Citizens!

Back for an update since our first post yesterday. We’ll see today the progression of votes based on data retrieved today, March 7th, 7:54am UTC.

DISCLAIMER : this is like a screenshot of the elections at a given time. Please note that the data change all the time (new votes are added or removed) and therefore might get outdated really quickly! The information that follows is based on the data retrieved from https://asgardia.space/en/asgardians/?mp=on&page=1 at the above mentioned date and time. I will provide updates every few hours on my blog. Stay tuned, enjoy, and please leave comments below!

How many Parliamentary Candidates were running on March 7th, 7:54am UTC?

There were 252 Parliamentary Candidates.

How many votes had been cast at that time?

There were 19058 votes cast over the 13 language Districts and the 252 candidates.

Why is there one more candidate today?

The profile of one candidate from District 13 (Other) didn’t appear on the available statistics at the time of retrieval yesterday and was therefore not counted yesterday (maybe the candidate had suspended their candidacy for a day?). Their profile being up and running today, we have again 252 candidates for our current statistics today.

Is there any important change to mention?

It appears that 2 candidates from District 13 (Other) moved their candidacy to District 3 (Turkish), probably by changing their language of choice on their profile.

What is the progression of votes between the two days?

That's it for this post! Once again, if you would like to see other information compiled in the data, feel free to make your request in the comments below. I cannot promise it will be feasible but if it is possible to do so by contrasting and compiling the available updated data, I will do it for you!
Next update in a few hours... I'll keep you posted!

Last important piece of info, the link to go back to vote and a reminder:
– you cast as many as 150 votes for as many as 150 candidates for Parliament. So, choose your team in Parliament!

– go vote now! >>> https://asgardia.space/en/elections-districts/

Dear fellow Asgardian Citizens!

If like me, you are curious and wish to know a bit more about the election demographics, then you might be interested in the following information I compiled, based on the available data retrieved today, March 6th, 6:27am UTC.

DISCLAIMER : this is like a screenshot of the elections at a given time. Please note that the data change all the time (new votes are added or removed) and therefore might get outdated really quickly! The information that follows is based on the data retrieved from https://asgardia.space/en/asgardians/?mp=on&page=1 at the above mentioned date and time. I will provide updates every few hours on my blog. Stay tuned, enjoy, and please leave comments below!

How many Parliamentary Candidates were running on March 6th, 6:27am UTC?

There were 251 Parliamentary Candidates.

How many votes had been cast at that time?

There were 16675 votes cast over the 13 language Districts and the 251 candidates.

How many countries are represented in the elections?

If we consider Hong Kong as a country, there are 64 countries in which reside our current Parliamentary Candidates, across the 13 language Districts.

What is the list of these countries, how many candidates in each of them and how many votes have been received per country?

That's it for this post! If you would like to see other information compiled in the data, feel free to make your request in the comments below. I cannot promise it will be feasible but if it is possible to do so by contrasting and compiling the available updated data, I will do it for you!

One last important piece of info, the link to go back to vote and a reminder: you cast as many as 150 votes for as many as 150 candidates for Parliament. So, choose your team in Parliament!

Go vote now! >>> https://asgardia.space/en/elections-districts/

Operation: Treasury

By Ivan Rosel & Ross Cheeseright | 21/02/2018

Introduction

In the text of Decree 15, HoN Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli announced that he would bring an end to the funding of the nation, with all funding due to wrap up by the end of the year. The purpose of Operation: Treasury is to start exploring ways for Asgardia to develop its own funds.

Aim

To mobilize and organize a think-tank of volunteers from  the community with a view to source viable methods of funding Asgardia in both the pre and post formation of Parliament, and to help deliver the vehicles and services required for Asgardians to generate income and trade with one another.

Objectives

1. Operation: Treasury will seek to bring into the fold any Asgardians who think that it is something they might be able to help with.
2. This Operation will seek to explore, address and propose and implement both short-term and long-term solutions regarding the financing of the nation.
3. The operation will be comprised of independent citizens, parliamentary candidates and government candidates, but no current ranking officials or members of Asgardia NGO.
4. Within the scope of this operation will be the research and establishment of revenue-generating businesses or solutions, project proposals and reports.

Scope

As we are not currently permitted to raise funds on behalf of Asgardia, the think-tank will be limited to conducting research, making proposals or developing projects that have the involvement or the formal agreement of Asgardia’s copyright holders / Asgardia NGO.

Transparency

One of the primary goals will be the absolute transparency of the operation and every effort shall be made to share the details, costs, income and expenses of any projects that are run. Furthermore, all reports, investigations and research will be shared with the community, with Parliament and Asgardia NGO.

First Step

The first step we are taking is to notify the community of this think-tank and start to gather together volunteers so that we can conduct meetings and brainstorming sessions to come up with some solutions to the financial problems that we’re facing as a Nation.

How you can help

If you would like to join Operation Treasury and work with us to build up a catalogue of research, investigations, reports and solutions then please let us know and volunteer some of your time. We’re especially interested in:

1. People with a background in finance
2. Innovators
3. People with a background in logistics or international trade
4. People who genuinely want to help Asgardia succeed

Contact us

Please comment below or contact Ross Cheeseright or Ivan Rosel directly if you would like to be involved.

That may sound to you as an evidence but I came to realise that it is not one for every Asgardian citizen. First, I saw comments about “Members of Parliament should be volunteering, not paid” then a citizen saying in the AGO on Facebook [ bit.ly/AGO-FB ] that in the aftermath of Decree 15 [ bit.ly/Decree15 ] a first move should be to “scrap the salaries” of future Members of Parliament and other future Government workers.

In times of financial distress such as the one we entered with Decree 15 , I can understand the idea. But then, if you were a candidate for a position that you know is going to be overwhelming and time consuming –not the standard 9 to 5– work, how would you feel if you were told that actually, you should be doing that FOR FREE because the current finances are too low to finance your salary?

I can’t speak for you as after all, for what I know, you could be a retired person with a good monthly pension with a lot of spare time, no family responsibilities anymore or with no more house mortgage to pay, the kids’ college fund fully paid off, and all of that with a good health! (don’t we all wish that? )
But from where I stand, well, I’d say things are different. I would just not be able to take care of my family working to debate and enact laws in a 24 time zone job (day and night: no solution proposed there as yet, that’s for another blog post), working through 13 possible languages, with a calendar of priorities (not set yet) to spend the first few weeks of work (first month maybe?) just getting organised on the actual law enacting and voting procedures themselves.

As I mentioned, I don't know for you but I would just have to decline to take the position, being actually seriously pressured by my wife and some friends to “come down back to Earth and quit dreaming”. To them, the daily (and nightly!) time I already dedicate to Asgardia and the belief I share that the building of the Nation with the current constraints will actually work makes them think I’m mad, or involved in a kind of game, and I know I’m not the only one in this situation [ https://asgardia.space/en/blog/23874-my-husband-is-crazy-says-my-wife-non-agardian-family-support/ ]...

Now, please don’t mistake my post here as a campaign withdrawal post or a complaining about the situation, NO, I am still in love with Asgardia, I am still believing heart, mind and soul in the future of our Nation and I am still willing to dedicate myself to finding solutions as a citizen and as a candidate for Parliament. I am also thankful for all that our Head of Nation has done so far for Asgardia. Without him after all, you wouldn't be reading this post here today. So, I just want to state here that future Members of Parliament and Government officers cannot just be “volunteering" .

And yes, I am aware that Decree 15 announced that our Head of Nation will be covering elected members of Parliament with a $500 salary (stipend?) for the months of April, May and June, and I am thankful for them. I am just rightfully worried that, just as the citizens who see that logically, such a salary cannot be sustained with the current finances in our coffers [ https://asgardia.space/en/order ]...

Quick calculation: 150 full time members of Parliament X $500 = $75.000 a month. We could continue paying our Parliament this $500 (not even covering my basic family expenses!) per member for 440k/75k = 5 full months!
Hurray!!

Really, fellow Asgardian citizens, we are in a bad shape …

So, if you are an over 40yo citizen of Asgardia and wish to do that Member of Parliament job for free, please, step forward in the comments, open your electoral campaign mentioning in your platform that you don’t want/need any salary: I promise I will support you and I can assure you that if your vision is sound, you will no doubt be elected.

Citizens, in the quest of finding financing solutions for our Nation, cutting off the salary of your lawmakers and government civil servants is not a rightful, productive, efficient or pragmatic solution.

Instead, I say it is time to gather our minds and come up with realistic solutions for financing our Nation .

[ to be continued ]

If you’re 25yo or less,

You are not trusted

and it seems that you don’t care not to be trusted.

The current main debate is not anymore “should the age to be elected to the Parliament be lowered?” but rather “should a petition to change the age for Parliament list 18 or 25 as the minimum age for Parliamentary members?” as the poll launched by Christina Cole , a civic.asgardia moderator and Parliamentary Candidate, shows.

You are not trusted because out of 224 votes as seen today, 162 votes choose 25yo as the new minimum age and only 62 votes choose 18yo.

This is justified by saying that someone under 25 years of age cannot possibly have suitable ideas, enough and relevant life experience, education, etc. to become a Member of the Parliament of Asgardia.

Why do I say that you don’t care not to be trusted ?

Because statistics show that 18-25yo represent over 50% of all Asgardians. To justify my claim, just among the last 100 Asgardians who signed up in the last hour or so, there are 60% under 25yo people who signed up to the website asgardia.space.

But you don’t care because you don’t go to vote in that poll.

Maybe is it that you are not interested in seeing your peers able to become members of the Parliament?
Or maybe you agree that you don't have suitable ideas , enough and relevant experience, education , etc. to be Members of the Parliament of Asgardia?

Either way, I STRONGLY suggest, that you take the time to vote for that poll, as its results will be used to justify the push for the modification of the Constitution to change the age to become MP.

So, if you want that minimum age to be 25 , just don’t do anything . It is what is going to happen.

If you believe it should be 18, then don’t wait and vote here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/204018803354568/permalink/377039049385875/

Have a great day!

We all know that the ongoing Parliamentary elections that are ending in 29 days today, December 3rd, will only see, in the current provisions of article 33-3 of our Constitution, candidates over 40 years of age, potentially accepted as Members of the first Parliament in the History of Asgardia.

Many concerned Asgardians think that this age should be lowered. Some say, to 35. Some others think it should be lowered to 30. Others yet, think 25 would be suitable. And last, there’s me with many other people, who think that 18yo should be the standard, as we believe that a person should be judged by their abilities, their capacities, their dedication and expertise, their behavior, their words and ideas, but not by their age. I’ve expounded on this in my previous blog post and campaign profile .

Yesterday, I posted on the official Discord server that there currently were only 51 eligible candidates who might be making it to Parliament, having the correct age, their exact official name below their profile picture, and a real picture of themselves.

Well, today, it is 50.

Fifty!

We are far from being able to fill up the 150 seats in the Parliament!

Let's have a look at the detail of it. As of today:

Current stats if allowing all eligible candidates 40yo or over:

#of eligible    Language        # of        # of seats

candidates    District        seats    not filled up

25                 District 1         71        (-46)

0                 District 2        15        (-15)

3                District 3        13        (-10)

7                District 4        15        (-8)

2                District 5        7        (-5)

2                District 6        5        (-3)

3                District 7        5        (-2)

3                District 8        3        (filled)

1                District 9        3        (-2)

2                District 10        2        (filled)

0                District 11        1        (-1)

0                District 12        1        (-1)

2                District 13        9        (-7)

50                                   150       -100

As one can see, if the elections were to end today, we would only have two Districts (Arabic and German) able to cover all their assigned seats for the Parliament. All other Districts would not be able to fill their assigned seats up. So, should we lower the minimum age to 35 then?

Let’s see how that would do:

Current stats if allowing all eligible candidates 35yo or over:

#of eligible    Language        # of        # of seats

candidates    District        seats    not filled up

31                 District 1         71        (-40)

0                 District 2        15        (-15)

5                District 3        13        (-8)

10                District 4        15        (-5)

2                District 5        7        (-5)

3                District 6        5        (-2)

5                District 7        5        (filled)

3                District 8        3        (filled)

2                District 9        3        (filled)

2                District 10        2        (filled)

0                District 11        1        (-1)

0                District 12        1        (-1)

3                District 13        9        (-6)

66                                   150       -83

That’s a little better: now that would be 4 Districts (Arabic, German, Russian and Portuguese) able to cover all their assigned seats for the Parliament with eligible candidates.

Let’s see how that would look like for 30:

Current stats if allowing all eligible candidates 30yo or over:

#of eligible    Language        # of        # of seats

candidates    District        seats    not filled up

43                 District 1         71        (-28)

1                 District 2        15        (-14)

6                District 3        13        (-7)

12                District 4        15        (-3)

4                District 5        7        (-3)

5                District 6        5        (filled)

5                District 7        5        (filled)

3                District 8        3        (filled)

5                District 9        3        (filled)

3                District 10        2        (filled)

0                District 11        1        (-1)

1                District 12        1        (filled)

5                District 13        9        (-4)

93                                   150        -60

There is again not much difference: from 4 to 6 Districts (Arabic, German, Russian, Portuguese, French and Japanese). That would still leave most of the Districts with not enough eligible candidates to fill up all assigned seats.

Let’s see if 25 would do it:

Current stats if allowing all eligible candidates 25yo or over:

#of eligible    Language        # of        # of seats

candidates    District        seats    not filled up

64                 District 1         71        (-7)

3                 District 2        15        (-12)

10                District 3        13        (-3)

15                District 4        15        (filled)

9                District 5        7        (filled)

6                District 6        5        (filled)

5                District 7        5        (filled)

4                District 8        3        (filled)

5                District 9        3        (filled)

3                District 10        2        (filled)

1                District 11        1        (filled)

1                District 12        1        (filled)

5                District 13        9        (-4)

131                                   150       (-26)

That’s much better: we would only have 4 Districts with the number of their seats not filled (English, Chinese, Turkish and Other).

Last, what would the result be, as of the data of today, if we were to allow every eligible candidate, 18yo or over, to run for the Parliament?

Current stats if allowing all eligible candidates 18yo or over:

#of eligible    Language        # of        # of seats

candidates    District        seats    not filled up

75                 District 1         71        (filled)

4                 District 2        15        (-11)

14                District 3        13        (filled)

18                District 4        15        (filled)

10                District 5        7        (filled)

6                District 6        5        (filled)

5                District 7        5        (filled)

4                District 8        3        (filled)

5                District 9        3        (filled)

3                District 10        2        (filled)

1                District 11        1        (filled)

2                District 12        1        (filled)

7                District 13        9        (-2)

154                                   150       (-13)

Wow, so close to making it!!
We would still be missing 13 eligible candidates, but we would have 11 of our 13 Districts covered!
Only District 2 (Chinese) and District 13 (Other) would still need to find eligible candidates.

That means with the age changed to 18, we would be so much closer to a successful election (filling up 139 seats) than we currently are (filling up only 50 seats).

Today, will end our first poll organised by Civic-Asgardia on this topic and with it, your chance to voice your opinion. I let you go and cast your vote if you haven’t yet: http://community.asgardia.com/polls/ and if you already did vote for the poll, please leave a comment below or join us on the Discord server to discuss with the community about how to make this current election a success!

[Yes. However sad it may be, we only currently have 154 eligible candidates. Once more, to be eligible, a candidate needs to have put a real picture of themselves, their full name as it appears on the legal ID they have provided on their candidate profile and they must have written *a real platform*. All the profiles that don’t comply with these three points will plainly be removed from the elections for not abiding by the rules set by the Election Committee.

So, if you realise that the candidate you have voted for is actually NOT eligible, either give your vote to another eligible candidate or WAKE THEM UP!! There is still time but... the clock is ticking!]

VOTE FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS:
https://asgardia.space/en/elections/ and click on "Election Statistics". You will find me there too! ;-)

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