Why do we need more activity in the RA?
First of all, by activity I don’t mean more amendments or votes but rather that when there are votes I want to see more people vote in the RA than there is right now. The more people and voting activity in the RA, the more democratic. And the more activity in the RA is more of a bonus for what my main idea to promote the role of speaker is. Which you asked for down below:
Why do we need to promote the Speakership ?
This is my main reason why I want to promote speakership. We’ve promoted executive staff, citizenship, join certain ministries etc. but never have I seen anyone promoting the speaker and deputy speaker roles. It took me longer (when I joined) than it should’ve for me to understand what the speaker in TNP actually does. By promoting and showing what the speaker and its deputies do I hope that we will get more new people involved in the region. I think deputy speaker is definitely something a motivated new player will be able to handle and I would like to take
@East Isles as an example for how a quite new player can do really well as deputy speaker. Also I think that it’s vital that most residents of TNP know what the speaker does and know about the RA because they play an important role in TNP and it’s sad to see how little people, especially outside of the forums, know about them. Robespierre presented stats of the April Performance Review and they look quite positive however the proportion of people I want to reach out to would have only made up 20% of the stats and probably even less.
How familiar are you with the Speaker's Office, its members and its inner workings? Do you plan to train more deputies to help you?
I like honesty. I am not going to sit here and lie. To say I’m very familiar with the office would be a lie but I know how it works and since I’ve never worked as a deputy or really had a lot of connections with that office I’ve built myself an image of how it works but it feels like it is a very accurate image. I’ve been following speaker’s desk and I’ve studied/read the laws involving the speaker so I feel very prepared for this. If I felt like I did not know enough about the office I would never have ran. I took the chance now that I got it.
I do plan to try and get a mix of new and old deputies. My plan is to be speaker for two terms so if I would give you a long term plan I would say that it might be important for me to have a few people with experience but I am not worried about never working as a deputy speaker. The amount of deputies will also depend on how the interest rate is for becoming deputy speaker at the same time as I will try and ask people who I think have potential to become deputy.
According to a court ruling of 2013 the Speaker has the power to unilaterally table proposals. How would you use that power?
I would only use the power on proposals that would harm TNP a lot, like posing a threat to TNP’s democracy. However I believe that it is up to the citizens to vote for or against the proposals because TNP is a democratic region and whilst my job is to speak for the region it’s the citizens decision.
What role do you see Citizens Stats playing in your term?
I think they should be updated but I wouldn’t say they will be my top priority. That was a good question because I haven’t really thought about it until now.
