PANLAMENT
Parliament, that
temple of democracy, is a fundamental institution in which elected
representatives take turns speaking, debating and deciding on the
budget and the law.
Panlament is
a new, more democratic form of parliament, in which not only the
active voting public is represented, but all eligible voters are
given the power to shape policy. Here, the entire electorate is
automatically represented from the outset by empty seats, which are
only filled with members after the National Council elections. In
contrast to a conventional parliament, in which all seats are filled,
in a panlament the number of seats filled corresponds exactly to the proportion of
valid votes cast.
In Austria, for
example, 74% of the 183 seats in the Panlament in the 2019-2024 parliamentary term would have been filled, while 26%
of the seats would have remained empty. In Romania, 97 of the 330
seats in the Panlamentin the 2020–2024 parliamentary term would have been filled, which
would have corresponded to 29%.
In the Panlament,
participation in the democratic process is represented in a
transparent and spatial manner. Even more important, however, is the
new democratic potential that this filling and emptying offers.
2022
Copyright: Milan Mijalkovic, 2020