Federal Senate (Besmenia)

Besmenian Federal Senate Besmenischer Bundessenat
Type
Type	Upper house
History
Founded	2 July 1920
Leadership
President of the Federal Senate	Georg Stuck (Summingia)
Vice President of the Federal Senate	Marie Ledermann (Trissia)
Structure
Political groups	(As of March 2022)   Besmenian People's Party: 24 seats   Free Besmenian Citizen's Party: 14 seats   Social Democratic Union: 12 seats   Green Party of Besmenia: 8 seats   Party of the Besmenian Left: 1 seat   Centre Alliance of Besmenia: 1 seat
Meeting place

The Federal Senate (Besmenian: Bundessenat) is the upper house of the Federal Republic of Besmenia. Through the Federal Senate, the states participate in federal legislation and administration as well as in international affairs. Each state is represented by members of its state government. In this way, the interests of the federal states are taken into account in the formation of the political will of the state as a whole.

History

Tasks

• Representation of a federal state at the federal level
• Opinion on government drafts
• Participation in foreign affairs
• Right to information the federal government

Composition

The parties that are involved in the state government in the respective state are represented in the Federal Senate. The individual members of the Federal Senate are sent to the Federal Senate by their individual state chambers. The prerequisite is that the members of the Federal Senate must have a seat in their state chambers. The distribution of seats changes after a state election and the subsequent formation of a new government in the respective state.

If a state is represented with 4 seats, if there are two parties in the regional state government, both parties will receive 2 seats. In a state government with three parties, the leading party receives 2 seats, while the other two parties receives one seat.

If there are 5 seats, with a coalition of two parties in the state government, the strongest party receives 3 seats and the second strongest 2 seats. In coalitions with three parties, the first and second strongest party receives 2 seats, while the third strongest receives one seat.

Number of seats

On the occasion of the Besmenian reunification in 1967 the Federal Senate agreed on the following number of seats:

• Each state receives at least four seats

- if there are fewer than five million inhabitants, four seats
- if there are more than five million inhabitants, five seats
- with more than 10 million inhabitants six seats

State	MPs	BVP	SDU	FBBP	GPB	PBL	NBP	ZAB
Frankenburg	4	2	2	-	-	-	-	-
Gablitz	4	2	-	-	2	-	-	-
Greuningia	5	3	-	2	-	-	-	-
Jakartaburg	4	-	2	2	-	-	-	-
Laitstadt	5	-	3	2	-	-	-	-
Lemberland	5	2	-	2	1	-	-	-
Maurenmark	5	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
Metakumburg	4	-	1	2	1	-	-	-
Neidenstein-Sulzburg	4	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
Sedakania	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-
Summingia	5	2	-	2	-	-	-	1
Trissia	5	-	2	-	2	1	-	-
Zollingia	4	2	-	-	2	-	-	-
Overall	60	24	12	14	8	1	-	1

Presidency

The executive committee consists of the president and a vice president. When it was founded in 1920, agreement was reached on an order in which these representative offices should be filled: the governors of the federal states assume the presidency of the Federal Senate in alphabetical order of their federal states. Since 1925 the term of the presidency has been two years, before that it was one year. Frankenburg was the first western Besmenian state to assume the presidency in the period of 1975-1977.

The current president is the Summingian governor Georg Stuck, who took office on October 20, 2021.

List of presidents of the Besmenian Federal Senate

President	State	Took office	Left office	Party
	Gablitz	2 July 1920	2 July 1921
	Metakumburg	2 July 1921	2 July 1922
	Neidenstein	2 July 1922	2 July 1923
	Sulzburg	2 July 1923	2 July 1924
	Summingia	2 July 1924	2 July 1925
	Trissia	2 July 1925	20 October 1927
	Gablitz	20 October 1927	20 October 1929
	Laitstadt	20 October 1929	20 October 1931
	Metakumburg	20 October 1931	20 October 1933
	Neidenstein (1933-1934) Neidenstein-Sulzburg (1934-1935)	20 October 1933	20 October 1935
	Summingia	20 October 1935	20 October 1937
	Trissia	20 October 1937	20 October 1939
	Gablitz	20 October 1939	20 October 1941
	Laitstadt	20 October 1941	20 October 1943
	Metakumburg	20 October 1943	20 October 1945
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	20 October 1945	20 October 1947
	Summingia	20 October 1947	20 October 1949
	Trissia	20 October 1949	20 October 1951
	Gablitz	20 October 1951	20 October 1953
	Laitstadt	20 October 1953	20 October 1955
	Metakumburg	20 October 1955	20 October 1957
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	20 October 1957	20 October 1959
	Summingia	20 October 1959	20 October 1961
	Trissia	20 October 1961	20 October 1963
	Gablitz	20 October 1963	20 October 1965
Robert Gleitzmann	Laitstadt	20 October 1965	20 October 1967	BVP
	Metakumburg	20 October 1967	20 October 1969
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	20 October 1969	20 October 1971
	Summingia	20 October 1971	20 October 1973
	Trissia	20 October 1973	20 October 1975
Konstantin Herbmann	Frankenburg	20 October 1975	20 October 1977	BVP
	Gablitz	20 October 1977	20 October 1979
Ulrich Bastmann	Greuningia	20 October 1979	20 October 1981	BVP
Hermann Bergerknecht	Jakartaburg	20 October 1981	20 October 1983	BVP
	Laitstadt	20 October 1983	20 October 1985
Manfred Gruber	Lemberland	20 October 1985	20 October 1987	FBBP
Norbert Schröder	Maurenmark	20 October 1987	22 August 1988	FBBP
Daniel Ulfborn	Maurenmark	22 August 1988	20 October 1989	FBBP
	Metakumburg	20 October 1989	20 October 1991
	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	20 October 1991	20 October 1993
Rainer Spindler	Sedakania	20 October 1993	20 October 1995	BVP
Ursula Kummstein	Summingia	20 October 1995	20 October 1997	FBBP
	Trissia	20 October 1997	20 October 1999
Alfred Baufuß	Zollingia	20 October 1999	20 October 2001	BVP
Jörg Hofstadt	Frankenburg	20 October 2001	20 October 2003	BVP
	Gablitz	20 October 2003	20 October 2005
Alexander von Wiest	Greuningia	20 October 2005	20 October 2007	NBP
Alfred Bienert	Jakartaburg	20 October 2007	20 October 2009	BVP
Andreas Schmidt	Laitstadt	20 October 2009	20 October 2011	SDU
	Lemberland	20 October 2011	20 October 2013
Konrad Mann	Maurenmark	20 October 2013	20 October 2015	BVP
Tom Heckmeier	Metakumburg	20 October 2015	20 October 2017	FBBP
Gregor Zöller	Neidenstein-Sulzburg	20 October 2017	20 October 2019	BVP
Vanessa Halm	Sedakania	20 October 2019	20 October 2021	BVP
Georg Stuck	Summingia	20 October 2021	-	BVP