KATTENDEN, DUNCANHEIM – A voting regulations bill proposed by fringe politician Thorehuli Nalzedenney, (shown in image), leader of the five-member Hackers United party, which would replace the current party-proportional vote system with a nationwide sortitionary appointment system, has been advanced to debate on the floor of the Common Council.

This comes after the bill was co-sponsored by all six members of the anarchist Peaceful Forest Dwellers’ Party and 2 of the 3 members of the self-proclaimed ‘hedonist’ We-Should-Have-A-Party. This sponsorship invoked Article 102 of the rules of the Common Council, which states that any bill sponsored by at least a majority of the members of at least three parties with seats in government must be debated on the floor.

The advancement of the bill to debate marks the first time in 21 years that a bill has done so without the support of any of the larger parties in the Dunkish Parliament.

“This marks an achievement for ideas and the future of Duncanheim,” said Mr. Nalzedenney in a statement to the Daily Yelkaretlis. “We can’t just sit around with the Traditionalists and Rebellists bickering back and forth over tiny issues that don’t pertain to what the populace endures on a daily basis. The last bill that was passed was about the potential renaming of a road in Da Nalkar for {expletive deleted} sake, and that took up three days of debate time. If we as a nation are to move forward into the 21st century, we must be willing to adopt new and unusual ways of doing things. If we are to face the issues of today, we need change, and installing a system of sortition will allow for the average Dunk to have a greater say in how the government works.”

The Hackers United party manifesto in the last election did not make mention of this idea, however, Mr. Nalzedenney has pointed out that they did promise to bring younger and more radical ideas into a Parliament that his party sees as overly stagnant.

“Not a single one of the politicians in either of the two largest parties have ever done a hard day’s work in their life,” Nalzedenney claims. “Every last one of them is from one of the richer and more influential families in the nation. There isn’t a single one that wouldn’t be eligible to inherit a position in the Council of Chieftains by birth. Half of them have family drenenyu as secretaries. We are, on the world stage, an incredibly liberal and progressive nation, and yet our system of government looks like something out of the 12th century with one or two reforms.”

When it was pointed out by a reporter that Nalzedenney himself is fourth in line for a Chieftain position for the Nalzedeneer tribe, and, in fact, has a drenenyu secretary, Nalzedenney said this “doesn’t matter.” When further pressed as to how exactly adopting sortition would bring the country forward in time, he simply stated that “democracy isn’t democracy unless every person has a chance of being in power.”

Prime Minister Morrigan Hididechendaney (Traditionalist) released a one-sentence statement on the matter: “I think the fact that an idea such as this has been brought to debate proves Mr Nalzedenney’s point about the need for reform, although I do not believe his way would be at all beneficial.”

The Office of the Theytheda declined to comment, beyond stating “The Common Council exists to debate how the country should be run.”

When asked, political analysts at the Royal University of Kattenden told the Daily Yelkaretlis that the bill “doesn’t stand an ice cube’s chance in the Realm of Fire Giants” of being passed.

The “Establishment of Sortitionary Elections” bill will be debated in the Common Council tomorrow.