Editing Cycle 17/Ruleset (section)

== Parliament ==

=== Elections ===
Each election phase, an election is held where all players are both candidates and voters. 

Each voter may send an ordered list of distinct candidates in ⁠#elections as the ballot that contains their votes. If a player has sent multiple ballots during the active election cycle, the most recent ballot will be counted and older ballots will be ignored. At the end of the election phase, the following process is repeated until all seats have been allocated, with n initially 1 and incremented by 1 at each iteration:

# The Droop Quota is calculated according to Q = ⌊ B / (S + 1) ⌋ + 1, where B is the total number of ballots cast in this election and S is the number of seats to yet to be filled.
# Votes are counted for each ballot up to nth preference. Any candidate who meets or exceeds the droop quota are awarded seats and removed from the rest of the election.
#* If multiple candidates reach the quota, the order in which they are awarded a seat is determined by number of votes counted for them. If multiple candidates are tied for votes, they are awarded seats at the same time (for instance, 2 players may be awarded points for being the first player to win a seat).
#* If this would fill more seats than available, the candidates with the most votes are awarded seats. If there is a tie that would still result in an excess number of seats, the Nomarch has 12 hours to decide the winner(s) of the remaining seat(s). If they do not express a preference within 12 hours, the winner(s) of the remaining seat(s) are determined randomly from the tied candidates.
The elected players hold their seats for the following governance phase and next election phase.
==== Powers of Parliament ====
During an election phase, if there is currently no Reserve Chair, a player with a seat in Parliament may nominate a player who is not in Parliament for the role of Reserve Chair. Parliament may then confirm the nominated player with a majority vote.

Parliament is responsible for scheduling the voting periods of standard proposals.

In order to schedule a voting period, a member of parliament must post a list in #parliament of all standard proposals scheduled for a given phase prior to that phase beginning (ideally with links to the proposal messages). A maximum of 3 standard proposals can have their voting periods scheduled in any given phase.

Parliament is free use any decision-making process they see fit to create a list of scheduled proposals, as long as that decision-making process, or the decision itself, is supported by a majority of members of parliament.

At the end of the 8th complete phase after a proposal's submission, if no voting period for it has occurred, it fails.

==== The Reserve ====
The Reserve is composed of a single Reserve Chair. At the start of a governance phase, a player who was nominated and confirmed to the role of Reserve Chair by Parliament during the previous election phase becomes the Reserve Chair. If multiple players would meet this criteria, the one who was confirmed last becomes the Reserve Chair and all others do not. When a player becomes the Reserve Chair, they gain 5 points.

If, at any time, the Reserve Chair would hold a seat in Parliament, the Reserve Chair ceases to be the Reserve Chair.

At the start of an election phase, if a player was the Reserve Chair for the 3 most recent governance phases, they cease to be the Reserve Chair.

Once during each governance phase, the Reserve Chair may choose an integer between 0 and 10 (inclusive). At the end of that governance phase, if a number was chosen, all players receive that many coins.

==== Power of Attorney ====
If a voting player is unavailable before a phase change, a player may designate an "attorney" who may vote for candidates, or veto proposals on behalf of them prior to the end of the phase. There are however, two additional clauses to this proposal:

# A player must invoke the power of attorney by stating their intent to do so as a game action and, must include the following;
#* name of nominated attorney
#* spirit of the decision to be made by the attorney.
# The attorney must make decisions in accordance to the aforementioned spirit of the player's will. The power to interpret this lies with the attorney, and the player must abide by the attorney's decision.

=== Seats ===
There are 3 seats in the Parliament of Apeiros at the beginning of the game. 

The first player to win a seat in each election gains 10 points, the second gains 8 and the third gains 5.
=== Members of Parliament ===
Players with seats are Members of the Parliament of Apeiros, or "In Parliament"

Players who are in parliament may veto any standard proposal. If at least half of all players in parliament veto a proposal it may not pass under any circumstances.

Members of Parliament, at the end of each phase, before elections take place, lose one point for every vetoed proposal that would be popular had it not been vetoed. 

=== Projects ===
Any member of parliament can pay the cost of an incomplete project to perform the effect of that project, then that project is complete. 

=== S-ular-TV ===
Parliament possesses a "Singular Transferable Vote" (S-ular-TV) to be used on each proposal. At the beginning of a governance Phase the S-ular-TV is given to the player awarded the highest rank seat (if multiple players have the highest rank seat it will be given to a random eligible player).  

The S-ular-TV can be instantly transferred to any other player in parliament by the current holder.  

The current holder of the S-ular-TV may vote for or against any active proposal by unambiguously stating so in ⁠#game-actions, upon doing so, 3 votes for or 3 votes against will be added to the proposal respectively.