CANDIDACY VACANCY AMENDMENT A Regional Code Amendment to clarify the status of ineligible candidates and the election process when no candidates are present
1. The following clauses shall be inserted into Chapter 4 of the Legal Code, and all subsequent clauses shall be renumerated accordingly:
8. Any nation ineligible to hold office may not have their candidacy recognized and cannot be placed on the ballot.
9. The Speaker will announce the start of an election five days prior to the start of voting.
10. Citizens may declare their candidacy from the start of the election until 12 hours before the start of voting, and may withdraw their candidacy and be removed from the ballot any time before voting begins.
11. In the event no citizen declares candidacy by the time voting starts, the Speaker will suspend the election process and restart from the beginning, announcing the start of an election five days prior to the start of voting.
I am scheduling this proposal. Given its rather simple aim and the fact there are now two pending special elections, one of which has already completed a full cycle, and there is a much smaller degree of activity and participation in the region currently, I am treating this as a rushed vote and scheduling that vote for tomorrow. Discussion shall end tomorrow, June 16, 2019.