Senator Online: an Internet based political party in Australia
The concept is at the same time simple and revolutionary. This is a real political party -Senator On-Line- whose goal is to let people directly vote in the Senate.
Each Senator that is elected through the SOL party has a commitment to directly follow the citizens’ wishes on each piece of legislation. In order to make this real, all the australian citizens can vote for or against a given legislation in the party’s website. Each of the SOL senators will then vote in the Senate following the results of the citizen’s vote.
The founder of Senator On-Line, Berge Der Sarkissian in an interview about the initiative months ago said:’The internet is becoming the most powerful democratic tool. We are just for the voice of the majority to be represented in parliament. It’s not a traditional party per se. We stand for people to be easily informed’.
The Australian Electoral Commission already approved Senator On-Line.
This is an extremely interesting initiative. We will follow it’s evolution.
