NVPC- Tuesday, a proposed amendment was scheduled for a national vote following a never-before used constitutional amendment procedure.
Every amendment ever passed in the third republic have gone through one of the two possible amendment processes. The proposed amendments would see a 2/3rds majority vote in every legislative body; however this was not the case, when multiple previous attempts failed to gain traction with the general counsel and national conference.
The proposed amendment, if ratified, would abolish the national religion of Reform Judaism, and enact a freedom of religion more similar to that of Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. This came about after 34 previous attempts to pass the amendment were halted and eventually killed when term sessions ended.
The second of the two possible amendment ratification processes works as follows:
A petition of amendment, officially called a ius reflexionis (right of reflection) is passed by 51% of the eligible national popular vote. Next, the national conference must schedule a voting date within the next 3 months (which was scheduled for 2 months following the the ius reflexionis date). When the date arrived, a majority in 2/3rds of executive council districts must vote to ratify. This is where the two processes stop differing.
If the proposed amendment is passed, the respective different heads of of government, The head councilman, the president of Gavastek, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Gavastek are constitutionally obligated to sign the amendment into law.
For now, we may only wait and see what happens.
