Mssr. Guy Ziegler, Speaker of the Imperial Parliament

The new, but absent, Speaker of the Imperial Parliament Guy Ziegler has announced plans to overhaul Parliamentary procedure and tradition.

Releasing a statement from the Speaker’s Office at the Official Opening, Mssr Ziegler said:

I hope to consult on the re-organisation of the Opening of Parliament; in the British system, which we follow considerably closely, the House meets to elect a Speaker prior to the State Opening. I am loathe to call the House to order now, prior to the State opening, because to do so would go against the tradition and custom of this House. However, it is an area on which I wish to consult and will will hopefully revisit in the near future. It is such matters that I wish to consider more deeply in a committee created for the purpose, with which I hope to include the new Standing Orders.

The move to re-organise a key theme of the Alexandrian Parliamentary System’s traditions is likely to annoy members of the Conservative Party, who have in the past expressed discontent with the Anglicisation of Parliamentary Procedure. There has been no comment from either the Conservatives or the Liberals yet but any move to amend Parliamentary Procedure by the Speaker is likely to receive scrutiny on the House floor.