Relevant updated legislation on ascension to King/Queenship, which all have no doubt reviewed but I link here for the sake of conciseness:
http://hermertia.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=547So, in my
personal opinion there are a couple of issues here; not necessarily all controversial.
The first is the simple legislative requirement that votes cast in support for King/Queen ascension must take into account the infrastructure of the realm in question. This has been firmly agreed upon by the community, and is quite clear in point b) of the law which states that prospective Kings/Queens must satisfy the requirement of
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Having established safe, secure, and extensive infrastructure as is serviceable for the prospective Kingdom, and as creates a safe and secure connection with the Empire via the Nether, as determined in unison by the Council of the Crowned.
Now, the issue in question here is chiefly Gimpy's nether lines, some of which remain in a state of incompletion. Now, members of the Council are (obviously) free to interpret information and vote however they chose, but this matter
to me is not at all controversial - not bestowing a vote on account of incomplete infrastructure is not only acceptable but explicitly called for in the law that we as a community have firmly agreed upon as being representative of our collective wishes concerning prospective Kingdoms.
Now the second point is the potentially somewhat murkier twin issues of whether a) Regent is free to vote/'re-nominate' Gimpy despite having been quasi-inactive and b) a combination of the shift in activity of the Council and the great time since Gimpy's initial application should require a new vote/a new application process. In principle, it is of course unequivocally clear that Regent can vote whenever he wants and for whatever reason. As for the length in time, there is certainly no law on the books (yet) imposing a time limit on applications. That said, if community feeling (beware the nebulous nature of this) seems to point towards restrictions/changes to these, than it is up to us to decide how to move forward.