{"id":5379,"date":"2013-04-08T17:54:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/2013\/04\/08\/peoples-assembly-results-lower-election-threshold-but-no-to-direct-presidential-elections__trashed\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:30:43","slug":"peoples-assembly-results-lower-election-threshold-but-no-to-direct-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/news\/peoples-assembly-results-lower-election-threshold-but-no-to-direct-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Assembly Results: Lower Election Threshold, But \u2018No\u2019 to Direct Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong>The People&rsquo;s Assembly deliberation day wound up on Saturday with 16 proposals receiving support and two being voted out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe citizen&#039;s &quot;parliament&quot;, a crowdsourcing initiative designed to find and fix sore spots in the political system, reached its final act today, as a selected group of public representatives voted on proposals collected by organizers of the event in January and provided with impact analysis by various experts in Fabruary and March.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 16 popular proposals will be presented to the Parliament by President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe results of the votes are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\n\tParty financing<\/p>\n<p>\n\t87 percent supported the idea that half of state funds earmarked for political parties should go to organizations elected to Parliament, with the other half to be divided between all candidates or parties, based on the number of votes received.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t86 percent want increased monitoring of party finances.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t85 percent agreed that anonymous, hidden or business donations should be criminally actionable.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t78 percent supported the current party election law, whereby only the public, not legal bodies, may make political donations.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPoliticization of public offices<\/p>\n<p>\n\t87 percent want laws to regulate requirements for state and local municipality representatives and better regulate the role and responsibility of board members (of state-owned companies).<\/p>\n<p>\n\t62 percent supported banning MP&rsquo;s from supervisory boards of state-owned enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPolitical parties<\/p>\n<p>\n\t75 percent found that the election threshold should be lowered from five to three percent.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t65 percent agreed that the number of people needed to found a political party should be dropped from 1,000 to 200.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t44 percent supported the possibility &#8211; if a certain number of signatures are collected &#8211; of forgoing the requirement that candidates put up a security deposit. The option was the most popular of three in this section.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tElection laws<\/p>\n<p>\n\t93 percent said they want changes to electoral laws, to oblige candidates who are elected to take up the position.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t92 percent agreed that single candidates should have the same requirements as party candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t59 percent supported the current situation, where the president is elected by the Parliament, not the people.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t53 percent supported the idea to change party election lists according to the number of votes gathered, as supposed to the party deciding the final positioning.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCivil participation<\/p>\n<p>\n\t95 percent voted that the Parliament must discuss publicly initiated motions, if enough signatures are collected for support.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t84 percent supported legislation that would regulate how information is made public and increase public participation in the law-drafting stage.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t75 percent supported simplifying the process of publicly initiated proposals.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t71 percent found that the assembly should gather if needed again.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe majority did not agree to the motion to ask for state funding for a permanent assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the beginning of the year, the assembly&#039;s website collected proposals and comments from the public in five topic areas: party financing, political parties, the electoral system, civil participation in politics and the politicization of public offices. Those signing into the site were also presented with an &quot;other&quot; option. Experts on the various topics worked through the nearly 2,000 proposals in February and March to create the items for Saturday&#039;s debate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMembers of the public in today&rsquo;s debate were selected to proportionally represent all (voting) age groups, regions and nationalities, and both genders.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe assembly is an initiative proposed by President Ilves last November during a meeting he called with decision makers in light of widespread criticism of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe assembly is organized by volunteers from NGOs such as the Estonian Cooperation Assembly, the Praxis Center for Policy Studies, the Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations (EMSL), the e-Governance Academy and the Open Estonia Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\thttp:\/\/news.err.ee\/politics\/6fc475c2-3b1b-4315-a94c-729817bff266&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People&rsquo;s Assembly deliberation day wound up on Saturday with 16 proposals receiving support and two being voted out. The citizen&#039;s &quot;parliament&quot;, a crowdsourcing initiative designed to find and fix sore spots in the political system, reached its final act today, as a selected group of public representatives voted on proposals collected by organizers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People\u2019s Assembly Results: Lower Election Threshold, But \u2018No\u2019 to Direct Presidential Elections - Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/news\/peoples-assembly-results-lower-election-threshold-but-no-to-direct-presidential-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People\u2019s Assembly Results: Lower Election Threshold, But \u2018No\u2019 to Direct Presidential Elections - Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The People&rsquo;s Assembly deliberation day wound up on Saturday with 16 proposals receiving support and two being voted out. 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