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The total vote count required shouldn't change if someone's on vacation.
If they can't vote remotely or by proxy, then the vote should either be delayed or extended, or anyone absent should be listed as not present or abstained. Either way the percentage of "yes" votes shouldn't be any different from if every seat was in attendance.
Never heard of a parliament where abstain = no. Is that common?
If there's a threshold needed for a "yes" vote then it's functionally the same, even without counting as one. I'm just saying that threshold shouldn't go down just because someone is on vacation.