[pp.int.general] GA Rules of Procedure

[Maxime Rouquet]

On 03/12/2013 12:14 PM, Zbigniew Łukasiak wrote:
> Reading the transcript from the day 2 (http://archive.is/0rVK# - the
> one Antonio sent to this list - anyone can confirm that it is
> correct?) I noted some passages that are about stuff that could be
> improved when making rules for the next GA
> 
> 1. Line 110.
> 
> Remark: the voting rules were changed without voting on that.
> 
> This one needs a bit more explanation.

I think it is taken into account in the new rules of procedure of the
PPI, that were "beta tested" in PP-EU meetings. Adopting these rules of
procedure would therefore fix this.

> 2. Lines 101 and later - video presentation of Andrew Norton is cut
> short at 3 minutes then voted to continue.
> 
> This needs to be resolved in Rules of Procedure.
> 
> 3. Line 130 - is it required that personal elections are done with a
> secret ballot?  How to do that with remote participants?
> 
> I understand that at the GA it was assumed that the ballot does not
> need to be secret - I would like to see a more detailed explanation of
> this.  I know that according to Polish law all personal elections
> inside associations, parties etc. need to be done with a secret ballot
> - I am not sure if this is the same in the Belgian law and if it
> applies to the kind of organization that is PP INT.

There is one important point : the voters (Ordinary Members) are not
persons but organisations, and most of them have to be transparent to
their members on how they vote in their name.

Therefore the vote shall not be secret and, instead, public, as it is
not a matter of privacy for a citizen, but a matter of transparency for
a public institution (each Pirate Party).

> 4. Line 154
> 
> Motion Pirate Party Netherlands: move everyone that is not a delegate
> to the open-space to control the focus and noise level in the main
> room (only guest must move, no press, staff or candidates)
> 
> I guess we need to assume that it will be similar at the next meeting
> and take precautions.

+1

> 5. Board elections had to be repeated a few time.
> 
> This needs to be taken into account in the timetable.

+1

> 6. Line 322
> 
> Motion: elections for co-presidency is invalid, because of the name
> used "Lola", which does not match the name on her passport.
> 
> This is trivial thing - but it takes time!

This is just viciousness, we should not have spent so much time with
this. Most of the Pirate Parties support pseudonimity anyway.

> 7. The Catalan membership.  This have been discussed to death.  I am
> not against Catalans, and I would like that this was resolved
> according to the statutes and without juggling with word semantics.
> This is also a practical lessons for us why we need precise language
> and why we need to look at other statutes and copy the formulations -
> for international organisations it is common to use 'sovereign state'
> instead of 'country' exactly because of the lack of precision in the
> second case.

We should replace the word "country" by "sovereign state", adopt the
Catalonia amendment that extends the federation point of the statutes to
a confederation system, and then ask the Spanish Pirate Parties to agree
on how they want to unite in front of the international pirate community.

Regards,

m