The Commandant's residence study.
Lu Ming met Jacob and his wife. Jacob's wife was also a hot girl, but compared with Danilova, she pales in comparison.
The organization of Jacob's five brothers no longer exists, and Jacob is on the road to the upper class.
Gaston Security Company has become a legal mercenary company.
However, because the Gaidens are mainly armed security guards and mercenaries, the military has sent representatives to the area and will review their every action.
But in the "military" of the Gede region, it naturally reflects the will of Commander Bit.
Jacob also resigned from his position as president of the security company and devoted himself to being a representative of the Gaiden people, serving as a director of several Gaiden industry unions.
Today, Jacob was also invited as a representative of the people of Gaide, and the couple was received by Commander Bit together.
In the general election in Gir, the Gad people were given the right to vote, but there was some controversy.
In addition to the original 100,000 Gaidens in the entire Gill area, there were nearly 100,000 immigrants who later received approval to return to Gill under Mrs. Bridget's "Gaiden Community Reconstruction Plan". In fact, due to the political atmosphere in Gill and the implementation of various plans to assist the Gaidens, many additional Gaiden refugees were attracted back to Gill. It is difficult to estimate how many of these people there are, but the overall number is around 100,000.
There is great controversy over whether this part of the population can obtain legal voting rights.
Among the ten senior members of the Election Committee, seven agreed to grant these people the right to vote, but most of the twenty ordinary members drawn from the local area did not agree with this. New immigrants other than the local Gaed people were very wary of the Gaed people and worried that they would make a comeback and they might be the ones to be driven away.
When talking to Jacob, Lu Ming wanted him to pay attention to the possible radical ideas and revenge ideas of some Gad organizations.
We should do our best to publicize that the Gaide people are a harmless group, and we should all let go of the past and look to the future.
Jacob agreed readily.
In fact, the Gedi people are now connecting with each other. It is said that there is a plan that millions of Gedi people will eventually immigrate back to the state where Gill is located, preferably in Gill City and its surrounding areas, to build a Gedi autonomous region.
The organization that was secretly planning this could not have failed to contact Jacob.
Because today's Jacob can be said to be the most powerful and influential representative among the Gadites.
But Jacob didn't say anything, and Lu Ming didn't ask.
His interests have never been consistent with those of the Gaide people. On the contrary, the situation here is chaotic and even bloody, and he can take advantage of it.
In my eyes, some individual lives are just numbers.
Whenever he thought of this, Lu Ming couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
The dinner was very sumptuous and the female cooks from the service company were very skilled.
After opening a bottle of brandy, Lu Ming chatted and laughed with Jacob and his wife.
In fact, Jacob and his wife were very restrained.
Everything Jacob had was given by the young commander in front of him who had a large army under his command.
Moreover, this young commander was rising rapidly in the Gede region at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.
Of course, his seniority in the Western Regions shows that he commanded a large number of troops, and now he is just returning to normal, but this makes him an even more terrifying figure.
"I heard that you just came back from New Newman City yesterday, and His Majesty the King granted you the title of Earl of Half Mountain Castle?" Jacob asked cautiously.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "It's just a routine procedure to enter the King's Privy Council. You must be a lord to become a member of the Privy Council. It's not hereditary, and the fiefdom is empty and doesn't matter."
The so-called Mid-Levels Castle refers to the area where Jill’s Mid-Levels mansion is located.
Jacob smiled and said, "Sir, that's not what I heard. If it's just for the purpose of entering the Privy Council, you are usually granted the title of Lord temporarily. Not to mention hereditary, even if you are not granted the title of Lord for life, when you step down from the position of Privy Councilor, the title of Lord will be automatically exempted. What you have been granted is the Earl, a real noble title, and you may obtain hereditary rights and fiefdoms in the future."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "You know a lot." Henry II's deeper meaning was, of course, that if he made great achievements for him in the future, it would be possible for him to truly join the hereditary aristocracy.
Jacob obviously had some thoughtful people analyzing it for him so that he could understand it.
Jacob hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, there are several organizations outside the area. They have an idea. I am worried..."
Lu Ming waved his hand: "As long as you don't commit any illegal acts and don't have radical ideas, then you have freedom of speech and you don't have to tell me about it."
"Okay, okay..." Jacob agreed quickly.
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Third formal meeting of the Committee.
The first agenda item was to discuss whether the Gad refugees who returned to the Gir area without permission had the right to vote in the Gir general election.
The opponents had very good reasons. They were not residents of Gir at all. They had only migrated to Gir for one or two months or even less. Even if the discriminatory law prohibiting the free migration of the Gad people was abolished now, according to imperial law, voters in the constituency should be citizens who have lived in the local area for more than three months.
The person who spoke most in support of this group of Gaed members gaining the right to vote was Park Soo-na.
She believes that the Gede people, who have been suffering since the war, are a special group and they do not even have the right to move freely.
In the city of Gir, there were originally three to four million Gedi people living there. Most of them have disappeared or been expelled, leaving only more than 100,000 refugees living in the slums. When these expelled people and their descendants return to their homes, they should be given the right to vote, especially those over the age of 18, most of whom have lived in the Gir area but were expelled.
A local Sonya committee member said that in fact, the more than 100,000 Gaidens who came to Gir illegally were not necessarily the Girns and their descendants who were expelled that year. He also accused the police station of turning a blind eye to the illegal migration of Gaidens, which led to the terrible consequence of a large number of Gaiden refugees pouring into Gir in a short period of time.
Park Soo-na's face darkened. "If most of these Gaide people are not returning, I want to ask, where did the millions of Gaide people who lived in Jier disappear to? Is the rumor about the mass grave true?"
Commissioner Sonia remained silent.
Lu Ming nodded: "Okay, let's stick to the law. This is not something our committee can allow as an exception. These Gaidens will not have the right to vote in the Gil election. However, we can issue a memorandum that the committee supports the abolition of all discriminatory laws that prohibit the free migration of Gaidens."
The Sonya commissioners listened to General Bit's words and nodded in agreement.
Although General Bit has been rescuing the Gad people, he is naturally just pretending to do so because of international pressure. After all, they are his fellow countrymen and will be the protector of the interests of the Sonyans in the region in the future.
Sure enough, on this issue, he supported himself and others. As for the memorandum and the like, they were also just for show and would not have any legal effect.
Park Soo-na looked at Lu Ming with a serious face and said, "Let's vote. If the committee votes in favor of them getting the right to vote, we should submit the result to the United Kingdom Parliament for a decision."
Lu Ming nodded: "Okay."
Both senior and ordinary committee members had one vote each, and there were ten senior committee members but twenty local committee members. Most of the local committee members voted against it. Among the senior committee members, Lu Ming, Babasha and barrister Lane also voted against it. The result of the vote was naturally that the Gede people who entered the Gir area without obtaining the right to migrate did not have the right to vote in this constituency.
Lu Ming felt amused when he saw Erika’s cute look that didn’t even bother to look at him.
In fact, from the perspective of the Gill constituency, 100,000 votes more or less does not mean much.
But when the election for the Gedi Special District comes, if the votes of millions of Gedi people can be united, they will definitely not be underestimated. The memorandum is the foreshadowing.
"The next item is to discuss the division of constituencies." General Affairs Officer Mutolov announced after the memorandum discussion.
The division of constituencies is actually a very delicate matter. Although Mayor Gill's election is a true universal suffrage system with one vote for each voter, the final result is determined by the absolute number of votes, which has little to do with how the constituencies are divided.
But in parliamentary elections, the division of constituencies is extremely important. In the future, big data can be used to cleverly arrange constituencies to benefit a certain party group. For example, among 100,000 voters, there are 60,000 red camp voters and 40,000 blue camp voters, divided into ten constituencies. In theory, the blue camp can be arranged to win most of the constituencies by simply arranging slightly more blue camp voters in those constituencies. The red camp has more than 20,000 voters who are completely concentrated in two constituencies, and the rest are scattered in the eight constituencies.
Of course, this is just pure theory and it is impossible to be so accurate in reality.
However, in subsequent general elections, many constituencies were fragmented due to this reason. Different parties often wanted to change the division of constituencies after coming to power, even if it meant making those constituencies look extremely strange in shape on the map. They were happy to do so, and this was the ultimate reason.
As for the initial establishment of Gill's parliamentary constituency, it is not that troublesome. It is basically divided according to streets, terrain, etc.
It is definitely not cost-effective for the Gad people. Almost all of their people are concentrated in Queens, and they can only get two seats in Queens. Queens is divided into two districts, Upper Queens and Lower Queens.
The city and suburbs of Gill are divided into more than 40 constituencies, and more than 40 members of parliament will be elected.
After the constituency division was completed, everyone had a quick working lunch and the next step was to review the qualifications of the candidates for mayor and council members.
Under UK electoral law, anyone who is not an adult in prison can stand for local elections.
Even if you have a criminal record and are a serial killer, you can run for election as long as you have been released from prison.
If you want to run for prime minister, there is an age limit, you must be over 30 years old, but a criminal record is not an obstacle.
But although it was the first election and many people felt they had a chance, in the end not many candidates for Mayor Gill paid the deposit. After all, a fair competition deposit was required, and if the proportion of votes obtained did not reach 1%, the deposit would not be refunded.
The same applies to the parliamentary elections. If the voting ratio in the constituency does not reach 1%, the fair competition deposit will not be refunded.
The deposit for running for mayor is 10,000 yuan, and the deposit for running for city councilor is 2,000 yuan.
Seven people will run in this Gill mayoral election.
More than 200 candidates have registered to run for 41 city council seats.
That is, on average, one city council member is elected for every five candidates.
Basically, those who have paid the deposit and participated in the registration do not fail to meet the review standards.
Of course, if you feel there is no hope and withdraw from the election one month before voting, the deposit will still be refunded.
In this way, other candidates will have one month to attract those scattered votes and will not be diverted by troublemakers.
However, the election schedule for Gill is rather tight. All candidates for city council will be voted on two months later, on February 25, 968, and the mayor will be voted on March 5.
The first mayor will serve for two years and then be re-elected. The second mayor will return to the normal term of four years, and city council members will be elected every four years.
From now on, the mayoral election and the council election will not be held at the same time, but will be two years apart.
Under the checks and balances of power, the mid-term elections of legislators can be seen as a weather vane. If the legislators who support the mayor lose the election one after another, it can be known that the mayor is unpopular.