Sekidean Assembly
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Assembly of the Inner Sekidean Union | |
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Type | |
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Structure | |
Seats | 500 |
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Elections | |
Siedem method | |
Last election | 22 January 2022 |
Next election | Before 22 January 2027 |
Meeting place | |
Parliament Building, Gimyeong, Prei Meas |
The Assembly of the Inner Sekidean Union, also known simply as the Sekidean Assembly, also archaically and erraniously sometimes called the Sekidean Parliament, is the lower house of the Sekidean Parliament, forming along with the Sekidean Council a bicameral legislature. It is created to represent the people living in the Inner Sekidean Union, and therefore is directly elected, unlike its counterpart.
History
TBA
Overview
The Sekidean Assembly (Before 2012 called the "Sekidean Parliament") has a number of seats fixed at 500 and is directly elected by the populace of the Inner Sekidean Union. It uses a special distribution method, to favor less populous countries, while the more populous need more people per single duputy. Current number of deputees is:
- Canton River Delta - sends 114 deputies
- Hondonia - sends 22 deputies
- Kentalis - sends 40 deputies
- Kistolia - sends 36 deputies
- Mustelaria - sends 79 deputies
- Moldanovica - sends 33 deputies
- Prei Meas - sends 103 deputies
- Speke - sends 29 deputies
- Torvon - sends 44 deputies
Deputies are elected using party-list proportional representation, with approval voting being applicable candidates on the ballot. If a member of the parliament dies, its replacement is automatically picked as the best ranking person on the ballot from the country he was from, that didn't make it into the parliament. The assembly can be dissolved, if 3/4 of members vote for it (this has never happened as of 2022), else the term is 5 years. There have been 7 elections so far:
- 1992 Sekidean legislative election - elected the 3rd Convocation
- 1997 Sekidean legislative election - elected the 4th Convocation
- 2002 Sekidean legislative election - elected the 5th Convocation
- 2007 Sekidean legislative election - elected the 6th Convocation
- 2012 Sekidean legislative election - elected the 7th Convocation
- 2017 Sekidean legislative election - elected the 8th Convocation
- 2022 Sekidean legislative election - elected the 9th Convocation
First two convocations were indirectly elected by the state legislatures:
- 1984 Sekidean legislative appointment - selected the 1st Convocation
- 1987 Sekidean legislative appointment - selected the 2nd Convocation
Elections to the Assembly
Elections to the Sekidean Assembly are carried out using the Siedem method.
Constituency | DS-SD | Green | SUCP | PULL | PSFMP | UPSMR | SCA | PFSC | PNS | AMPP | SCI | Total | |
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Canton River Delta | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 114 | ||||
Hondonia | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 22 | |||||||
Kentalis | N/A | N/A | 40 | ||||||||||
Kistolia | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 36 | |||||||
Mustelaria | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 79 | ||||||||
Moldanovica | N/A | N/A | N/A | 33 | |||||||||
Prei Meas | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 103 | ||||||
Speke | N/A | N/A | N/A | 29 | |||||||||
Torvon | N/A | N/A | 44 | ||||||||||
Total | 154 | 105 | 67 | 42 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 500 |
Parties
Due to the specifics of the Siedem method, it is favorable for the candidates to form coalitions across the country lines, creating broad, often highly decentralized, coalitions of likeminded people, that united national parties in the countries of the Sekidean Union. Currently, there are 11 such coalition-parties represented in the Assembly:
- SCI – Sekidean Communist International, currently represented by 9 MSPs
- DS-SD – Democratic Socialists - Social Democrats, currently represented by 154 MSPs
- Green – Coalition of Green and Ecology-Minded Parties, currently represented by 105 MSPs
- PULL – People's Union of Liberal Leftists, currently represented by 42 MSPs
- PFSC – Party for Federalization of Sekidean Countries, currently represented by 21 MSPs
- AMPP – Alliance of Minor Political Parties, currently represented by 10 MSPs
- SUCP – Sekidean Union of Civic Parties, currently represented by 67 MSPs
- UPSMR – United Party of Sekidean Monarchists and Royalists, currently represented by 26 MSPs
- PSFMP – Pan-Sekidean Free Market Party, currently represented by 24 MSPs
- SCA – Sekidean Conservative Alliance, currently represented by 25 MSPs
- PNS – Parties for National Sovereignity, currently represented by 15 MSPs
Legislative process
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