Esquarian Parliament

Esquarian Parliament
7th Esquarian Parliament
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	1990
New session started	25 April 2016
Leadership
President	Everàrd Torsièl, SD
Structure
Seats	385
Political groups	CEL (19)   SD (129)   G (28)   P (51)   AR (12)   ELA (34)   EDU (147)   FSU (78)   PENM (19)   NI (10)
Elections
Last election	2–8 April 2016
Next election	April 2021 or earlier
Meeting place
Oured, Ordennya
Website
parl.esquaria.ec

The Esquarian Parliament is a directly elected assembly representing the peoples of the Esquarian Community. Its seat is in Oured, Ordennya.

The Parliament is the "first institution" of the Community, and takes precedence over all others. Its presiding officer is the President of the Esquarian Community, who speaks for the Community as a whole when called upon to do so.

New Esquarian laws must be first proposed by the Council of Esquarium before being considered by the Parliament; the Parliament itself has no right of initiative. Proposals placed before the Parliament must be approved by majority vote before becoming Esquarian law.

Apportionment and elections

Seats are apportioned according to a degressively proportional formula which is designed to ensure that population disparities between nations are reduced.

Elections to the Parliament are held at least every 5 years, though Parliament can choose to dissolve itself and hold early elections. Early elections have only been held once, in 2011. The latest election took place in April 2016.

Esquarian Community rules mandate the direct election of parliamentary delegates by a system of proportional representation, though countries are otherwise free to determine the exact system to be used and the constituencies from which MEPs are to be elected. The current distribution of seats and method of election by member state is shown below:

Country	System	Details	Seats per District	Total seats	Threshold
Ainin				62
Aucuria	Party-list proportional representation	Constituency borders match national borders; d'Hondt method is utilized.	13	13	n/a
Eibenland	Party-list proportional representation	Constituency borders match national borders; d'Hondt method is utilized.	24	24	n/a
Katranjiev	Single transferable vote	Hare quota in two nationwide constituencies: one with 8 seats in the south, and the other with 12 seats.	9, 9, 4	22	n/a
Luziyca	Single transferable vote	Hare Quota in twenty-two constituencies with three seats. One seat is elected by alternative vote in Nantai but is not seated in accordance with a resolution of the Parliament that prohibits any MEP representing Nantai from being seated until the Nantai Question is resolved.	1, 3	67 (1 not seated)	n/a
Montecara	Single transferable vote	MEP candidates are chosen by the Committee of Selection and technically stand for election as independent politicians who commit to caucusing with a given EP group, as Montecara has no political parties. The entire nation is treated as a single multi-member electoral district.	5	5	n/a
Ordennya	Party-list proportional representation	Constituency borders match national borders; d'Hondt method is utilized.	27	27	4%

Political groups by country

Voters elect candidates to the Esquarian Parliament who stand either as independents or as members of their national parties; parties and independent politicians sharing similar ideologies form themselves into parliamentary groups. Nine such groups are currently recognised: the conservative and Christian democratic Esquarian Democratic Union, the right-libertarian and classical liberal Esquarian Liberal Alliance, the right-wing populist and esquarisceptic Freedom and Sovereignty Union, the environmentalist Greens, the social liberal and centrist Progressives, social democratic Social Democrats, socialist and communist Confederation of the Esquarian Left, far-right and nationalist Party of Esquarian Nationalist Movements and the regionalist Alliance of Regions.

Member state	Political groups of the Esquarian Parliament																				MEPs
	EDU		SD		Liberals		FSU		Progressives		Greens		Regionalists		CEL		PENM		NI
	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total	Parties	Total
Luziyca	21 (W)	21	23 (LLB)	23	11 (SC)	11							1 (PAP)	1			4 (NLP)	4	3 (CLP)	3	64
Ainin	19 (PC)	19	20 (PSD) 2 (PSD-RR)	22							10 (PV)	10	1 (WAIM)	1	6 (PSL)	6	4 (AN)	4			62
Ordennya	1 (C)	1	11 (CSD)	11	1 (DL)	1	10 (FCC)	10			4 (PV)	4									27
Eibenland	6 (K)	6	7 (SDP)	7			2 (N)	2	6 (M)	6	1 (G)	1			1 (L)	1			1	1	24
Katranjiev	8 (CPK)	8	2 (PPK)	3					9 (LPK)	9							1 (KIP)	2			22
Jorland and Lothican	2 (UP)	2	4 (JLP-LSD)	4	2 (FD-NLP)	2	4 (NA)	4	1 (RP-DRL-UA)	1	1 (BF-Alt.)	1	1 (LI-JLNP)	1							15
Aucuria	4 (NA)	4	5 (DP)	5					3 (AL)	3					1 (KA)	1					13
Montecara			2	2					1	1					2	2					5
Total	EDU		SD		Liberals		FSU		Progressives		Greens		Regionalists		CEL		PENM		NI		MEPs
	170 (TBD%)		140 (TBD%)		50 (TBD%)		60 (TBD%)		65 (TBD%)		24 (TBD%)		13 (TBD%)		35 (TBD%)		31 (TBD%)		19 (TBD%)		604