Pledge Register — The Public Record of a Promise
WHAT WAS PROMISED MUST REMAIN ACCESSIBLE AND UNALTERED.
Vox Populi est Sui Iuris — The Voice of the People is Sovereign.
Public information draft V001 — 5 November 2026
Contents
- Purpose of the register
- What an authentic entry must show
- The record cannot be rewritten
- How a possible breach is dealt with
- Privacy, retention and security
- Register availability
- Related documents
1. Purpose of the register
The Pledge Register is intended to preserve the public commitments made by Phoenix candidates and officeholders. Its purpose is to allow voters to compare a person’s later conduct with the precise words they accepted before seeking election under the Phoenix name.
The register is not a substitute for elections, the courts or parliamentary procedures. It is an evidence record: who signed, what they signed, when they signed and whether a later statement or formal Party finding has been recorded.
2. What an authentic entry must show
A completed entry should identify the signatory’s publicly appropriate name, the relevant constituency or public role where applicable, the exact pledge wording and version, the date of signing, the method and status of verification, and subsequent formally recorded changes in Party endorsement or membership where lawful to disclose.
Where a signatory has not been selected or nominated, the entry must not describe them as an official candidate. A signed expression of interest is not the same as statutory nomination.
3. The record cannot be rewritten
Clause 4.3 of the Party Constitution requires that a signed Candidate Doctrine Declaration, Phoenix Pledge or equivalent acknowledgement remain an immutable historical record. It must not later be edited, replaced, hidden, withdrawn or retrospectively altered.
A later correction or response must be published as its own dated record. This allows the public to see both the original undertaking and subsequent developments without rewriting history.
4. How a possible breach is dealt with
A complaint, dispute or allegation must not itself be published as proof of wrongdoing. The Party Constitution contains procedures for fair factual review and decisions, including an opportunity to respond where applicable.
If a trigger under the Constitution is established, the consequence prescribed by that Constitution applies. Any public status change must identify the basis and date without falsely suggesting that a Party can remove an MP from an elected seat.
5. Privacy, retention and security
A candidate’s public pledge concerns political opinions and may involve specially protected personal information. The register must therefore distinguish information necessary for public accountability from private identity documents, signatures, home addresses, contact details and other information that must not be exposed without a proper legal basis.
The system must prevent unauthorised alteration or impersonation, record amendments and provide a lawful mechanism to correct inaccurate administrative data without erasing authentic historical commitments.
The exact public fields and retention rules must be set before the technical register opens.
6. Register availability
This page explains the intended Pledge Register. It does not claim that the register is already populated with verified candidate signatures or independently audited.
The planned integration is through the existing Phoenix Petitions & Polls system. The public register should be activated only after its signing, identity-checking, immutability, access and data-protection functions have been examined and approved.
Until then, the absence of entries must not be represented as evidence that a person has or has not made a private commitment.