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| − | '''[[Congress]]''' is the main legislative body of the nations of eRepublik so becoming a '''Congress member''' is one of the important steps in every politician life.{{-}}
| + | The '''Congress member''' achievement is given to citizens when they are elected to congress through election to the [[congress]]. The reward is {{Gold|5}}. |
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| − | ==To become a candidate==
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| − | [[File:Run for Congress2.jpg|right|400px]] | + | |
| − | To become a candidate, you must have at least 300 [[experience points]]. There are two basic ways to reach the party page where you can put your Congress nomination. Between the 16th and 23rd of the month you can:
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| − | *Go to your party page - Click on [[Community]] - [[Party]].
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| − | *Click the button - [[File:Run for Congress.jpg|150px]].
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| − | *Read the statement and enter a URL for a presentation on why people should vote for you. This can be a newspaper article, a forum topic, or a link to your wiki citizen page.
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| − | *Click Agree
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| − | *The screen will refresh and you will get the message: ''You have applied to represent your party in the congress elections. The party president will select the official candidates on the 24th.''
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| − | *The Run for Congress button will be replaced with two new buttons:
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| − | |• click the resign button to resign from the candidacy;
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| − | | rowspan=2 |[[File:Congress candidate options.jpg|right|150px]]
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| − | |• click the Edit Presentation button to edit the URL for your presentation.
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| − | On the 24th the list for congressional candidates will be closed and the [[party president]] will have the ability to manage the position of the members on these lists, if the list has more candidates.
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| − | '''Only candidates for the top five parties will be allowed to run for office.'''<br />'''[[President|Country Presidents]] aren't allowed to run for Congress.'''{{-}} | + | |
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| − | ==Number of Congress seats in a country or region==
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| − | {{Main|Division of congress members|Congress elections}}
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| − | The '''maximum number of Congress members''' depends on the number of regions. In most cases, the available Congress seats in a country are 40 (if a country has between 4 and 40 regions) seats.
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| − | ==Election day==
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| − | {{Main|Voting system}}
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| − | On the main page, above the Feeds, there will be displayed a blue frame mentioning that is an election day (as well as a small blue notification pop up in the bottom left corner of the screen). Clicking on that frame/notification, you will be redirected to the voting page.<br>
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| − | Alternatively, you can access the voting page through the menu; [[Community]] --> [[Elections]]. ''(Note: This page is available all the time in order to see past elections results.)''
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| − | When expressing your choice in the Congress Elections, you will choose a party.<br>
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| − | You can view the list of the candidate congress members of each party.
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| − | The old Congress members lose their seats the second day after the Congress elections. That is on 27th of each month, due to the 24-hour period of the Election Review. | + | |
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| − | ==Duties of Congress members==
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| − | *Voting on proposals proposed by the [[President]].
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| − | *Propose laws
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| − | *[[Accepting citizenship|Accept citizenship]] requests.
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| − | Most countries have a slightly more advanced system where Congress members can register at forums to discuss and decide on a lot more things than just sitting and voting on proposals.
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| − | ===Laws that can be proposed===
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| − | [[File:Congress member administration view.png|400px|thumb|Administration page where the country's Congress members can propose various laws]]
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| − | Clicking on "propose a law" enables a congress member to make the following proposals, of which they can make two (2) per mandate. Note that Congress member also approve the [[Citizenship]] requests.{{-}}
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| − | |[[File: Icon taxes.gif]]
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| − | |'''Change [[taxes]]'''<br>''Note'': Neither one of the taxes cannot be lower than 1%, while [[Import tax]] cannot be higher than 99%, [[VAT]] higher than 25 % and [[Work tax]] higher than 50%.
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| − | |[[File: Icon donation.gif]]
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| − | |'''[[Country donations]]'''<br>Transfer currency from the country's [[treasury]] to an [[organization]]. During the twenty-four hour voting period the proposed currency due for donation is "frozen" and rendered unusable.
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| − | |[[File: Icon wage.gif]]
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| − | |'''[[Minimum wage]]'''<br>Change the minimum employee salary given by [[Company|companies]]. Can not be lower than {{Money|0.10}} units of local [[currency]].
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| − | |[[File: Icon issue.gif]]
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| − | |'''[[Issue money]]'''<br> Take [[gold]] from the treasury and replace it by the local currency. Includes paying a transaction tax of which is deducted at a rate of 0.005 gold per 1 unit of local currency.
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| − | |[[File:Icon impeach.gif.png]]
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| − | |'''President [[Impeachment]]'''<br>Remove the [[President]] and replace him with whichever previous [[presidential candidate]] received the second-highest vote score on the [[presidential elections]]. Requires 66% of [[Congress]] votes to be passed.
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| − | |[[File:Icon_naturalenemy.gif]]
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| − | |'''[[Natural enemy]]'''<br>Members of congress or president can propose neighboring country as their natural enemy. If agreed, a free war will be started with the natural enemy.
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| − | {{Laws}}
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| − | ==Alerts==
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| − | The Congress members will receive notification when they will get elected and whenever there's a law proposal.
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| − | The [[President]] and the Congress members will receive a notification if their country has been proposed as [[Natural enemy]] or as target of [[Airstrike]] by another country.
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| − | ==Change of citizenship==
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| − | A Congress member is unable to change citizenship without resigning, as you can only be a member of a political party (subsequently a Congressman) of whichever country you have citizenship in.
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| − | ==Losing Congress seat==
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| − | The only way to lose your Congress seat is to resign from Congress, through [[Country_administration|Administration page]].<br>
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| − | If you leave your party or your country (as of changing region), you will '''not''' lose the Congress seat.
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |
| − | *[[Voting system]] | + | * [[Congress]] |
| − | *[[Division of congress members]]
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| − | *[[Speaker|Leader of the Congress]]
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| − | *[[Parliamentary group leader]]
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| − | {{Jobs}}
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| − | ==Notes==
| + | {{Achievements}} |
| − | <references />
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| − | [[Category:Politics]][[Category:Official in-game Jobs]] | + | [[Category:Achievements]] |
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