The conditions
Every commitment recorded here is conditional. These are the conditions. They are not sequential steps to be worked through — they hold simultaneously, or the commitment stays exactly where it is.
The conditions
These are not sequential steps. They hold simultaneously, or the commitment stays where it is. Current status is published here and updated in public.
All nine must hold at once. Until then, every pledge stays exactly where it is. No single institution decides — the registry publishes its assessment with sources, and any pledger may amend or withdraw at any time.
In detail
A principle stated as a word is easy to agree with and impossible to assess. Each one below is paired with the observable things that would have to be true.
Courts that decide cases on the law, with judges appointed and removed by transparent process rather than by convenience.
What would have to be observable: Judicial appointments and removals follow published rules; judgments against the state are enforced; no parallel forum overrides the ordinary courts.
Government that draws its authority from the electorate and stays answerable to it between elections as well as at them.
What would have to be observable: Parliament sitting and legislating rather than being bypassed; the executive accountable to the house that made it; power transferred on the result, without negotiation afterwards.
Basic protections that hold for everyone, including people the state finds inconvenient.
What would have to be observable: No enforced disappearances; detention subject to judicial review; freedom of association respected in practice, not only on paper.
The rights the Constitution guarantees — among them freedom of expression, assembly, movement, belief and equality before the law — treated as enforceable entitlements rather than as concessions granted when convenient.
What would have to be observable: Rights enforceable directly in court and the judgments carried out; any restriction narrow, published and reasoned; journalists and ordinary citizens able to say what they believe without extra-legal consequence.
Contracts that mean something, enforced in reasonable time, against anyone.
What would have to be observable: Commercial disputes resolved within a predictable window; awards enforced; the same law applied to the well-connected.
A political settlement durable enough that terms agreed today survive the next administration.
What would have to be observable: Governments complete their terms; policy frameworks outlast the ministers who signed them; no extra-constitutional intervention.
Statutory protection for capital coming from abroad — written into law, not offered as assurance.
What would have to be observable: Repatriation rights in statute; property rights that hold and transfer cleanly; a route to remedy that does not depend on who you know.
Upholding the Constitution, constitutional supremacy, the rule of law, free and fair elections, an independent judiciary, fundamental rights, freedom of expression, and civilian supremacy.
What would have to be observable: The Constitution amended only by the process it prescribes; no act of state placed beyond judicial review; elected civilian authority holding over every other institution, in practice as well as in text.
A vote counted as it was cast, run by a commission that answers to the law rather than to whoever stands to win.
What would have to be observable: An election commission independent in appointment and funding; polls held to constitutional schedule with no candidate excluded outside due process; counts published to polling-station level and disputes settled before the term begins.
How this is judged
An assessment nobody can contest is worth nothing. The registry publishes its reading and the evidence behind it, so it can be challenged.
Until all nine hold, every pledge stays exactly where it is — and you may amend or withdraw it at any time.