Sekidean Council

Council of the Inner Sekidean Union
Logo of the Sekidean Council
Type
Type	Upper house
Structure
Seats	36
Political groups	State representatives   Independent (27)   Canton River Delta (3)   Hondonia (3)   Kentalis (3)   Kistolia (3)   Mustelaria (3)   Moldanovica (3)   Prei Meas (3)   Speke (3)   Torvon (3) Autonomy representatives   Independent (9)   Union of Autonomies (9)
Elections
Voting system	Indirect
Meeting place
Council building, Tropponz, Grad Autonomy, Zhousheng, Mustelaria

The Council of the Inner Sekidean Union, also known simply as the Sekidean Council is the upper house of the Sekidean Parliament, forming along with the Sekidean Assembly a bicameral legislature. It is created to represent the state legislatures and the regions and autonomies of the members of the Inner Sekidean Union.

History

The Sekidean Council was informally founded along with the foundation of the Sekidean Union in 1983, being the unofficial decisionmanking body cooperating with the Assembly's predecessor, until its legal setting in 1992, establishing the Sekidean Commission, Sekidean Tribune of Regions and Autonomies and the Sekidean Council.

The Sekidean Council has the number equal to the members of the Sekidean Union, and representants were elected by the respective legislatures of the member states, while the Sekidean Commission was formed by the heads of government of the respective countries. The Sekidean Tribune of Regions and Autonomies was an advisory body, that represented the interests of subnational units and autonomous regions of the member states. The first two of those three organs directly participated in the legislative process, with the Sekidean Commission proposing the laws, passing it down to the Sekidean Parliament, after which the Sekidean Council served as a sort of an upper house, that approved the laws passed by the two.

This laws became overly bureaucratic and in 2010, the decision was made to discontinue the system and combine the functions of the Sekidean Commission and the Sekidean Council into a single chamber and allow the Sekidean Assembly to propose its own legislature, which is then passed to the new unified body.

On January 1st, 2012, the Inner Sekidean Union was established and the new Sekidean Parliament became bicameral. The new Sekidean Council was established to be elected by ³/₄ by the states' legislatures, while the remaining ¹/₄ has been left for the reformed Sekidean Tribune of Regions and Autonomies to elect from their own, being known as the "Union of Autonomies".

Overview

The Sekidean Council is elected by the legislatures of member states. Each state sends three deputies, allowing for a representation of more than a single political view. Despite this, the Sekidean Council is defined to be strictly non-partisan. Organs voting in deputies are:

• Canton River Delta - The Blue Parliament
• Hondonia - Vorbirea
• Kentalis - Estates-General
• Kistolia - Legislative Congress
• Mustelaria - Federal Council
• Moldanovica - Parliament
• Prei Meas - United Chamber
• Speke - Parliament
• Torvon - Parliament

Outside of state legislatures, one quarter of the chamber (that means 1 seat for each member state) is reserved for nominations from the Sekidean Tribune, which serves as an advisory board, that represents autonomous and other sub-national entities. Although not specified by law or any regulation, it is generally assumed, that most of those seats would be reserved for people representing autonomies and other semi-autonomous regions, whose interests can not be sufficiently represented by the national delegates.

Appointment to the Council

Representants from each country are either replaced or reelected after a new government cabinet is formed, usually after a legislative election to a lower house of a national parliament. State legislature can replace a representant from the Sekidean Council by a simple majority, if at least two of the following conditions have been met:

• The Deputy is openly standing in opposition to the government of the country that nominated him
• The Deputy has violated a law set by the home country
• The Deputy has served for more than 5 years
• The Deputy has been nominated by a party, that does not participate in the government
• The Deputy did not show up for at least 5 meetings in a row
• The Deputy is incapable of carrying out the duty due to a boycott
• The Deputy is incapable of carrying out the duty due to an illness
• The Deputy has been reprimanded for misconduct by the Council

Caucus	Group		Seats	Total
Member states		Canton River Delta	3	27	36
		Hondonia	3
		Kentalis	3
		Kistolia	3
		Mustelaria	3
		Moldanovica	3
		Prei Meas	3
		Speke	3
		Torvon	3
Autonomies		Union of Autonomies	9

Legislative process

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