Parliament of Eothasia

Soviet Parliament Supreme Soviet Parliament
(LXXXIX Cortes)
Type
Type	Bicameral
Leadership
Chairwoman	Eve Grace since Election: 1 January 2019
Chancellor	Valerius Eäron since Reelection: 1 January 2014
Commissioner	Manfred Leitzke since Reelection: 1 January 2014
President of the House of the Realm	Senator Léonard Lachapelle since May 11th, 2017
President of the Union Council	Councillor Zella Lorentz since May 11th, 2017
Structure
Seats	650 senators—84 councillors
Elections
Union Council voting system	uninominal
House of the Realm voting system	plurinominal
Union Council last election	May 4, 2017
House of the Realm last election	May 4, 2017
Meeting place
Capitolium, Valtoria, Eothasia

The Soviet Parliament is the legislative branch of the Unified Eothasi Socialist Republics. It is a bicameral organism composed by the chamber of the House of the Realm, which acts as the lower house, and the Union Council, which acts as the upper house.

The House of the Realm is an uninominal constituency system. The entire country is divided into 650 constituencies; each constituency proposes one candidate to the House of the Realm, which will act as that constituencies’ particular representation in this body. There are currently ten political parties represented in the House of the Realm and seven in the Union Council. These are the: Labour Party, Socialist Party, Communism for Eothasia, People’s Party, Party for Social Democracy, Popular Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrats Party, National Party and the Unity Party. In the Union Council, the Liberal Party, Liberal Democrats Party, National Party and Unity Party all formed an electoral coalition, thus becoming the National Liberal Coalition. The parties of the Union Council are the: Labour Party, Socialist Party, Communism for Eothasia, People’s Party, Party for Social Democracy, Popular Party and the National Liberal Coalition. All of these parties, as per the electoral results they obtain and the number of seats given by the electoral system, obtain subsidies from the State for their organisation. Members of the House of the Realm are voted directly by the citizens of the country. These elections occur once every five years and the entirety of the House of the Realm is up for vote at the same time.

Meanwhile, the Union Council is a space for representatives of the different governments of the country. Each of the seven Popular Republics is divided into a number of provinces which total 27 between the seven of them, plus the state of Valtoria for a total of 28 represented states in the Union Council. Each of these provinces selects three candidates to participate in the Union Council as councillors and represent the interests of their respective provinces in the upper house of the legislative branch. As such, the Union Council consists of a total of 84 selected members; these members are selected by the government of the Popular Republic for which the Province State pertains; as such, regions like Espinar have a total of only six representatives, Valtoria has three representatives, whereas Aterni has eighteen representatives and Venza another fifteen. As it stands, the current distribution of Provincial States and representatives is as follows:

Popular Republic	Union Councillors
Aterni	18
Venza	15
Antizon	12
Mariser	12
Volsini	9
Elvira	9
Espinar	6
Valtoria	3

While the House of the Realm has an established Presidency of the Diet which presides over the chamber, the Union Council is instead presided by the Federal Government, which hears the interests of all involved parties and acts in accordance with their necessities. That said, the Council of Governance appoints a President of the Union Council to act as its liaison to the upper house.

History

Following the end of the conquest of the Eothasi peninsula by the Aterni Empire, the country experienced years of incredible economic growth and military prowess, demonstrating to various countries across the world the might of the Federal military. However, there were deep social problems embedded in the country, as the Eothasi government was largely representative of the interests of the original Aterni territory instead of the whole of Eothasia. This changed with Empress Duvaineth.

Empress Duvaineth rose to power in 1674 and was the first empress that sought to restructure the country in order to allow for a more truthful representation of the country and its diverse territories. Though it was a popular move within the Eothasi populace as a whole, the citizens of the Aterni Empire believed it was a diminishing of the power that was rightfully theirs as conquerors of the peninsula. Despite this, Empress Duvaineth eventually proceeded to found the United Eothasi Kingdoms, which was an evolved version of the Aterni Empire that attempted to include all the territories of Eothasia.

This was the first introduction of the modern system of legislative branch existent today in the UESR. However, because of the social tensions in the beginning of the 20th Century that advocated for a socialist movement, the exact system was changed with the Popular Constitution of 1913. In this system, the legislative branch was changed: instead of being unicameral, it would recuperate the bicameral structure, thus representing both the will of the people and the territorial necessities of the country. This eventually established the current structure of the Soviet Parliament.

Though there have only been 27 Soviet Parliaments and 62 Kingdom Parliaments, the official count of the Soviet Parliament sums both of these. As such, the incumbent legislature is known as the 89th Soviet Parliament.

In the late 17th Century, after the official selection of Valtoria as the capital of the newly formed United Eothasi Kingdoms, the construction of the Capitolium —the building where, to this day, the Soviet Parliament convene for sessions— began. It was completed by 1701 and the first session was held on 10 May, 1701 by the 6th Soviet Parliament.

Privileges and Pay

Privileges

Members of the Soviet Parliament have a series of privileges due to their position within the Eothasi government. These include freedom from arrest except in cases of treason, felony, and disturbance of the peace.

Pay

The gross salary of all members of the Soviet Parliament is €53.956,18. This does not include commissions (such as those for the President of the House of the Realm, which receives an amount close to €30.000,00). There are also a series of indemnisations for distance (the members of the Soviet Parliament that are from regions farthest away from Valtoria receive more than those closer to the capital).