National Assembly of Yavorstrana

National Assembly of Yavorstrana Национальное собрание Яворстраны Natsional'noye Sobraniye Yavorstrany
Type
Type	Bicameral
Leadership
President	Polina Volkova, Civic Initiative
Prime Minister	Nikolay Antipov, Democratic Union
Chief Minister of the State Council	Maksim Lobanov, Democratic Union
President of the State Duma	Yekaterina Primakova, Democratic Union
Structure
Seats	534 members 120 State Councillors 414 Deputies
Political groups	Majority   Democratic Union (70) Minority   Civic Initiative (43) Other Opposition Parties   National Left (3)   Liberal Democratic Party (1)   New Ecology (1)   Non-Inscrits (2)
Political groups	Majority Government   Democratic Union (229) Official Opposition   Civic Initiative (143) Other Opposition Parties   National Left (20)   Liberal Democratic Party (11)   New Ecology (4)   Non-Inscrits (7)
Elections
Voting system	Mixed-member proportional representation
Last election	2015 General Election
Meeting place
Sokolovsky Kremlin
Website
www.natsobraniye.pra.yf

The State Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the Yavorstri Federation. Initially conceptualized in 1867 by ministers in the government of Yevgeniy I, the Assembly initially existed as a unicameral Estates termed the Zemsky Sobor, or Assembly of the Land. After the New Revolution of 1870 and eventual reformation of the Yavorstri Dominion into its current Federal form, the State Council and Duma were formed in 1875 to coincide with the first Yavorstri elections. Its powers, enshrined in the Yavorstri Constitution of 1880, serve to make it the most powerful governmental body within the Federation.

The State Assembly comprises of two distinct bodies, each with different powers; the Duma is commonly held to be more explicitly powerful than the Council, and can override the latter in all areas except those directly pertaining to matters of the federal states and republics as denoted in the constitution. The Duma is made up of at least 386 members, and through the processes of overhang and leveling currently seats 414 Deputies. The Duma also maintains an electoral threshold of 4.5% in order for a party to sit candidates from its closed list. The Council, on the other hand, has a fixed membership of 120 Councillors distributed via population and indirectly elected via the state legislatures of Yavorstrana's 14 states, republics, oblasts, and Federal Cities.

Members of the State Assembly meet in the Sokolovsky Kremlin in the capital of Yuriatin, which was once the seat of the Yavorstri Vozhd and has served as the official seat of government for the Yavorstri Federation since 1875. The Assembly is technically led by the President of Yavorstrana, though this process is only used during annual addresses to the combined bodies of the legislature and in unusual circumstances.

Components

Committees of the State Duma

Departmental: Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee
Departmental: Communities and Local Government Select Committee
Departmental: Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
Departmental: Defence Select Committee
Departmental: Education Select Committee
Departmental: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee
Departmental: Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Departmental: Health Select Committee
Departmental: Home Affairs Select Committee
Departmental: International Development Select Committee
Departmental: International Trade Select Committee
Departmental: Justice Select Committee
Departmental: Science and Technology Select Committee
Departmental: Transport Select Committee
Departmental: Treasury Select Committee
Departmental: Work and Pensions Select Committee
Topical: Environmental Audit Select Committee
Topical: Belisarian Scrutiny Committee
Topical: Liaison Committee
Topical: Public Accounts Select Committee
Topical: Public Administration Select Committee
Topical: Arms Export Controls Committee
Topical: Regulatory Reform Committee
Topical: Select Committee on Statutory Instruments
Topical: Women and Equalities Committee
Topical: Petitions
Internal: Administration Committee
Internal: Backbench Business Committee
Internal: Finance and Services Committee
Internal: Members' Allowances Committee
Internal: Committee on Standards
Internal: Committee of Privileges
Internal: Procedure Committee
Internal: Committee of Selection