Dear Asgardian Residents from the great city of Kuala Lumpur, from the Wilayah Persekutuan and from the Klang Valley!

First as a tourist and for business, I have been coming and passing through Kuala Lumpur off and on for the last 20 years for well over 60 trips! So when I had to relocate with my family after having lived 8 years in China, it just made sense to choose to come and live in the muddy confluence! :-)
I have now been a KL resident for the last two years and have been enjoying my everyday life here, the different parts of our city, its culture and of course, going mamak with friends!

I own two businesses and mostly work online which allows me to dedicate time to meaningful activities with my wife and friends. I’ve lived in the Cheras area, in Bangsar and I am now relocated in Wangsa Maju.

I’ve been involved in the building of our Nation for over a year now. I’ve organised the first meeting of Asgardian Residents in Kuala Lumpur to celebrate the First Anniversary of the Founding of our Nation last October (see the pictures in my blog post http://bit.ly/AsgardiaKL1) and have had the chance and the honour to be in Vienna at the end of June to witness the Inauguration of our Head of Nation Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli and meet all the Members of Parliament who were present at the opening of the First Parliamentary Session.

For the last few months, I have been in regular contact with the Administration of Dr. Ashurbeyli and also with several of our local Parliamentary Representatives. As such, I believe to be a good candidate able to foster the progress and development of our Nation in its current plans in Kuala Lumpur and its region, in the whole of Malaysia and in the wider South East Asia.

The role of a Mayor at this time for Asgardia is to bring our Nation from its present virtual and online state to the birth and sustaining of a thriving community life at the grassroots level in a given earthly locality.

At this time, we are just users of a website, part of an online group of people believing in the future of humanity as being beyond this terrestrial existence, in the immensity of space and getting ready to launch its conquest which is the reason why, for most of us, we chose to join the Space Kingdom of Asgardia in the first place and accepted its Constitution!

But it is now time to transition from being an online community to becoming a real life Nation, going from the virtual to the reality of our Malaysian lives, greeting and meeting each other in our beautiful city of KL which, I believe, can become a beacon of light in the development of our Nation for the whole of South East Asia with its diversity and cultural wealth, an example of success for the whole of Asgardia.

Together, let’s make Kuala Lumpur the best example of what « One Humanity, One Unity » truly means!

I stand here, as a candidate for the position of Asgardian Mayor of the city of Kuala Lumpur, to help you become a full Citizen of Asgardia and obtain your first Asgardian ID, to promote our Nation’s interests to the wider Malaysian community by connecting with companies, local businesses, the Media and the Press to render Asgardia more visible, and reaching out to the bright young minds in our local educational institutions and invite them to join us in the building of our spacefaring Nation.

Thank you for your support and for your willingness to participate in these mayoral elections!

[P.S.: a Mayor cannot do his or her work on their own, it takes a solid team of people both in the forefront alongside the Mayor but also some others helping in the background. If you believe you have what it takes to join my team as a volunteer, please contact me privately through your asgardia.space profile, adding me as a friend there and sending me a private message sharing your experience and your motivation.]

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! ;-)

Dear fellow Asgardian Citizens!

Please join the community to the new official Discord server here:

https://discord.gg/TmAFwm6

Come and make friends, ask your questions to the Candidates for the Parliament and get to know your community better!!

To all my supporters for the current Parliamentary elections,
To all my friends on Asgardia,
To my fellow Asgardians,

As you might have seen, my Leadership election 'platform' that I posted in June when I decided to run as a Trendsetter has been carried on to the current Parliamentary elections. Its introductory words are:

« My first aim is to represent the voiceless: the Asgardians under 40 years of age .
Article 33, paragraph 3 of our current Asgardian Constitution reads:
"Members of Parliament shall be elected for a term of  five years from among Asgardian citizens who have reached the age of 40."
This means that, at the end of this election, only leaders aged at least 40 will have a chance to enter the Parliament. Other leaders will only have one vote to cast to choose a candidate among the ones who are at least 40yo from their language culture. » ( bit.ly/Asgardia1 )

Today, and this for the first time, Civic Asgardia is asking our opinion through the first ever poll in the History of Asgardia. I feel that this is your chance to voice your opinion about the current Parliamentary elections.

As I believe the equality of opportunities to be one of the essential values that we need see growing in our Nation, it appears evident that Candidates should not be discriminated based on their age but should rather be chosen based on their abilities and capacities to lead, their experience of life, their continued dedication, their field of expertise, the show of their deep understanding of the issues at hand and the example they set by their behavior, their exemplary attitudes and of course the accuracy and the eloquence of their words and ideas displayed in their social media interactions. NOT ON THEIR AGE.

This is for these very reasons that my vote in the poll goes to:
" Extend and continue the elections as they are with everyone over 18 able to run and Head of Nation calls for a referendum to change the Member of Parliament minimum age in the Constitution. "

Friends, even if your ideas are different from mine, your opinion matters.
Please, go to the poll page, and vote!

http://community.asgardia.com/polls/

Thank you! You are awesome!

October 12th, around 6pm, that was time for the long ride in the Light Rail Transportation line in Kuala Lumpur, going through that heavy drenching rain (real heavy!) just as one might witness in warm Malaysia at this end of the Southwest Peninsular Monsoon season.
We made it mostly dry to the mall and found that special place for this special event: the DC Comics Café in Putra Sunway Mall. Convenient for its proximity to that same LRT line that helped us get there in minutes from our Northern home rather than being stuck in traffic for hours!
As we were finishing sticking up to the table our freshly printed pictures displaying our Asgardian pride and announcing the event, we didn't have to wait long: our first friend was already joining us! We had already met in Hungary in early August so it was nice to meet again for such an occasion!
We exchanged on the purpose of Asgardia, our lives in KL and shared ideas and understanding about the newly formed Nation!
Wow, one year already!! Asgardia is one year old!
Then arrived our unlucky friend, stuck in traffic in his Uber-ride with a small accident on the way (small fender bender), coming all the way from 31km away (about 20miles), arriving two hours after the beginning of our Celebration!! Thank you to have valiantly braved the storm, overcome the traffic and not renounced to joining us! You had so much to share about your studies at the National University of Malaysia and your research at its Space Science Centre that would you have not come, we would had been at a loss! We learnt so much from you!
The best moment for me was when you shared the difficulties you have been meeting to be taken seriously by your fellow researchers while speaking to them about Asgardia... and the subsequent decision we made together to go and organise a presentation about our Nation (and its future upcoming scholarship opportunities to be offered!) to explain to them more in depth what Asgardia stands for. I personally had that project to share about it with absolutely no idea as to where to go but thanks to you, we have now identified this public of potentially interested people and can proceed to share with them what is so dear to us!
All good things have an end: it was time to say goodbye... We immortalised that moment with a few pictures (thanks for the DC Comics staff!), to later realise that since we hadn't had real dinner, going out to a Mamak place to eat together would make it easier to say goodbye! :-)
Contact made, projects on their way, enthusiasm gathered!

HAPPY ASGARDIA'S FIRST FOUNDING DAY ANNIVERSARY to ALL!!

[ thanks, Jay, for the poster :-) ]