The Monitors
Article IX
Three mandates
LM: Legislature, census, districting and Elections Panel referendum eligibility. EM: both executives, their subordinates, the Monetary Authority and administrative agencies. JM: courts, Elections Panel and constitutional treaty/compact compliance. Findings are nonbinding and not prerequisites except where the Constitution expressly attaches consequences. Discontinued work requires publication of reasons and findings obtained.
§9.1 — full provision →Selection and continuity
LM: Supreme Court nominee; EM: joint Speakers’ nominee; JM: public lottery administered by the Elections Panel. National confirmation requires a simple majority. Missed LM or EM vacancy nominations after sixty days invoke JMC public-lottery selection. Full terms last ten years and cannot be renewed. A vacant or interrupted office has a senior eligible pool member acting under §9.1.d; unscheduled confirmation fills the original term’s remainder.
§9.3 — full provision →Suspension and removal
Two Monitors may recommend suspension for serious misconduct. Approval: Supreme Court majority for LM, both Speakers for EM, both executives for JM. Ninety-day suspension may continue after removal begins, subject to judicial necessity review. Misconduct removal under §9.9 uses a national sixty-percent vote without a turnout floor. Missing its deadline does not close the proceeding. Permanent incapacity has a separate two-thirds-chambers plus both-Consuls route.
§9.7.a — full provision →Records and resources
Access within audit mandates is unrestricted; public disclosure still protects confidential information and lawful security interests. Staff may lawfully disclose suppression evidence without retaliation. Responsible bodies publish responses within statutory periods and may disagree. Section 3.10 requires sufficient institutional resources and justified material changes; there is no automatic prior-year Monitor funding floor.
§9.5 — full provision →