House of Deputies (Shirazam)
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The House of Deputies (ཀནེཧེ གལིཀ, Khanehe Vakila), is the Unicameral Supreme Legislature of the Republic of Shirazam. The House' legislators are known as Deputies (Vakil).
There are 299 Deputies, each elected by a single-member Delegation (ཏསྒིཟ, Tasviz). Delegations are purely electoral constituencies and do not conform to administrative divisions. the terms are staggered so that approximately one-third of the Delegate seats are up to election every year. Currently Yasmin Azshirah preside over the body as Speaker of the House (Gobat ol Khaneh). The officeholder is usually a member of the largest party represented, assisted by vice presidents from across the represented political spectrum.
The Constitutional powers of the House are enumerated in the "Bill of Rights and Duties of the Citizen" (མདནྕྷིཡོ ཏཀླིཕཡེ ཨཟཏམ, Madanchiyo Taklifa ye Azatana), the constitution of Shirazam. They are also further detailed and limited by the "Instruments of Government" (Apzal ol Sharkar), a constitutional annex based on Precedents that explicit the relationship between the Legislative and Executive branches. As a Parliamentary system, Shirazam' politics are dominated by the House of Deputies who has the upperhand over the government which is mostly contained in its role of executing the decisions taken by the House. To control the activities of the government, the House of Deputies has installed the Public Salvation Committee (ཀོམིཏེཡེ རསྟྒརིཡེ མརྟཞམེ, Komiteye Rastgari ye Martaxme). Composed of twelve Deputies with a year-long mandate, it serve as the link between the Deputies and the Government, regularly interviewing Ministers and producing reports on their activities to the House.
Deputies do not seat by party, but by constituencies: each physical seat in the House being associated with a specific Delegation. Deputies thus may spend a lot of time in the Gallery, to discuss and find agreements with party members. But when a debate or vote is called, all Deputies must regain their seats. The legislature meet in the eponymous House of Deputies of the capital, once an annex of the Skadanshah-Kal, the Fortress of the Skadian King. Like most places of political importance in Shirkal, the House of Deputies is guarded by the Shakara of the Republic.