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 ...
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! ;-)