Great Council

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Great Council

18th Great Council of Crylante
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Type
Type
HousesStates' Assembly (Conventus de Stadelle/Stadelleting/Ihmisneuvosto)
People's Assembly (Conventus de Populum/Folketing/Osavaltioneuvosto)
History
FoundedMarch 31, 1941 (1941-03-31)
Preceded byParliament of the Crylantian Principality
New session started
April 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)
Leadership
Speaker of the States' Assembly
Jens da Vinci, Farmers'
since April 2, 2013 (2013-04-02)
Deputy Speaker of the States' Assembly
Doris Solberg, Reform
since April 2, 2013 (2013-04-02)
Speaker of the People's Assembly
Marine Kasner, Reform
since April 2, 2013 (2013-04-02)
Deputy Speaker of the People's Assembly
Gaius Schmidt, Socialist
since April 2, 2013 (2013-04-02)
Structure
Seats276
225 People's Assembly
51 States' Assembly
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People's Assembly political groups
Executive
  Socialist Party (58)
  Reform Party (55)
  Farmers' Party (39)
  Trúathi Party (38)
  Green Party (26)
Opposition
  People's Party (14)
  The Left (12)
  Forefathers' Party (9)
  Let's Go Crylante (9)
  Alydian Democrats (4)
  Lillehavn Independents (3)
  New Socialist Party (3)
  Alliance for the East (2)
  Party for the Crylantians (2)
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States' Assembly political groups
Executive
  Farmers' Party (17)
  Socialist Party (14)
  Trúathi Party (14)
  Reform Party (13)
  Green Party (2)
Opposition
  People's Party (2)
  Forefathers' Party (2)
Elections
People's Assembly voting system
Open-list proportional representation under the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota
States' Assembly voting system
Single transferrable vote
People's Assembly last election
March 31, 2017 (2017-03-31)
States' Assembly last election
March 31, 2017 (2017-03-31)
People's Assembly next election
March 31, 2021 (2021-03-31)
States' Assembly next election
March 31, 2021 (2021-03-31)
Meeting place
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Alexandra La Blanc House, Nebligen

The Great Council (Rigjordic: Storting, Lilledic: Remsting, Nausikaan: Osavaltioneuvosto), is Crylante's federal legislature. It meets in Nebligen in the Alexandra La Blanc House.

The Great Council is bicameral, being composed of the 274-seat People's Assembly (Rigjordic: Folketing, Lilledic: Conventus de Populum, Nausikaan: Ihmisneuvosto) and the 63-seat States' Assembly (Rigjordic: Jordting, Lilledic: Conventus de Stadelles, Nausikaan: Osavaltioneuvosto). The houses have identical powers. Members of both houses represent the stadelles, but, whereas seats in the People's Assembly are distributed in proportion to their population using open-list proportional representation, each Stadelle has three seats in the States' Assembly, which are elected using single transferrable vote. Both are elected in full once every four years on the 31st March, with the last election being held in 2013.

The Great Council possesses the federal government's legislative power, along with the separate constitutional right of citizen's initiative. For a law to pass, it must be passed by both houses. The Great Council may come together as a United Great Council in certain circumstances such as to elect the National Council (collective executive head of government and state) and the federal judges.

Composition

The Great Council is made up of two chambers: the 63-member States' Assembly, which consists of three representatives from each state of Crylante elected through single transferrable vote, and the 289-member People's Assembly, consisting of representatives distributed amongst the states proportional to each state's populationn, with the least populated state, Nixoperuit, having one representative and the most populated, Sønderburg, having 39 representatives.

Notably, the Vanir Islands are given representation in the lower house akin to their population, currently having three representatives, but are not represented within the upper house due to not officially being a state, which has caused some controversy among the islands with many calling for them to be properly represented in the upper house.

United Great Council

There are occasions in which both the States' Assembly and the People's Assembly sit in a joint session, which is termed as the United Great Council. This is done in a few cases as laid out in the constitution: members of the National Council are elected this way, as are judges on the Court for National Justice. Furthermore, in cases of attack the United Great Council is given the authority to appoint a General to lead the defence efforts of Crylante, and special national announcements by the National Council are delivered to such a joint setting.

When the two chambers sit in a joint setting like this, the Speaker of the People's Assembly is in charge of presiding over meetings.

Groups

Parties can work together in groups, giving small parties the right to the benefits that come with official party status (given to a party with more than five members of the Great Council). This means that they can get represented on committees, and have full speaking rights in debates, and each group gets an allowance of 79,000 HTN a year.

Within the Great Council, there are six parliamentary groups and have been since 2014, when the People for a Green Crylante group merged with the United Left of Crylante group to form the Red-Green Alliance group, consisting of The Left and the Green Party. The Democrats for Crylante group came into existence when the People's Party of Crylante split from the Reform Party over economic disputes and allied themselves with the previously unaligned Let's Go, Crylante! movement. The Party for the Crylantians is not a member of any group, as all the other parties have refused to work with them.

Group Parties Ideology PA SA Total
Progressive Alliance Socialist Party Social democracy 58 14 74
Lillehavn Independents Local issues 3 0
Liberals for Crylante Reform Party Conservative liberalism 55 13 71
New Socialist Party Third Way 3 0
Coalition of Farmers and Workers Farmers' Party Agrarianism 39 17 68
Alliance for the East Rigjordic regionalism 2 0
Forefathers' Party Nausikaan regionalism 9 1
Truathi-Alydian Union Trúathi Party Trúathi humanism 38 13 55
Alydian Democrats Alydian democracy 4 0
Red-Green Alliance Green Party Green politics 26 2 40
The Left Anti-capitalism 12 0
Democrats for Crylante People's Party Social liberalism 14 2 25
Let's Go, Crylante! Inclusionary populism 9 0
Unaffiliated Party for the Crylantians Right-wing populism 2 0 2

See also