Parliament of the Republic (Ichoria)

Parliament of the Republic Palodeyon kao Valadras
37th Legislature of the Republic
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate Assembly
Leadership
Chairman of the Senate	Delon Vari, Independent
Chairman of the Assembly	Herul Seraki, Mutualist Party
Structure
Seats	350 60 (Senate) 290 (Assembly)
Senate political groups	People's Party (6)   Mutualist Party (17)   Moderate League (6)   Liberal Party (10)   Independents (21)
Assembly political groups	People's Party (25)   Mutualist Party (93)   Ecologist Party (25)   Moderate League (22)   Liberal Party (83)   Transparency (10)   Sovereignty Party (13)   Independents (19)
Meeting place
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Palace of the Republic, Azhara, Ichoria

The Parliament of the Republic (Elyrian: , Palodeyon kao Valadras) is the bicameral legislature of the Ichorian Republic. It is composed of a lower house, named the Assembly, and an upper house, named the Senate. Both houses' approval is necessary for the passage of legislation.

Each house has its own regulations and rules of procedure. However, they may occasionally meet as a single house, the Parliamentary Plenary of the Republic, to revise and amend the Constitution of Ichoria. The parliament convenes at the Palace of the Republic, the site of an old Vayonist Chapter, in the Ichorian capital city of Azhara.

The Senate

The Senate is the upper house of the Ichorian parliament. It is composed of 60 members: 40 elected by direct popular vote, known as regional senators, and 20 appointed by corporatist organizations, known as corporate senators. Regional senators represent a single constituent region of Ichoria, with each region being represented by four senators regardless of population. Corporate senators, on the other hand, are chosen by a collective of corporatist organizations, including labor syndicates, commercial, industrial and agricultural gremiums, academic councils and professional associations, and represent the nation in its entirety. All senators serve staggered terms of eight years, with two regional seats per constituent region and half of all corporate seats up for election every four years.

The presiding officer of the house, elected among the senators, is known as the Chairman of the Senate. The Chairman has the power to call votings that result in a tie, therefore, in a gesture of good faith, the office is usually attributed to an independent and corporate senator. In the Chairman's absence, the Interim Chairman, who is customarily the majority coalition leader, presides over the Senate, though only in a moderating capacity and lacking the power to call votings.

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  Interior of the Senate chamber

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  Emblem of the Senate

The Assembly

The Assembly is the lower house of the Ichorian parliament. It is composed of directly elected deputies representing electoral districts, known as circumscriptions, that are allocated on a regional basis and on the basis of population. The Ichorian constitution mandates a distribution of around one Assembly deputy per 250,000 citizens, meaning that, unlike the fixed number of seats in the Senate, the Assembly's size is proportional to the country's growing or waning population.

There are currently 290 deputies, each elected by a single-member constituency through a two-round voting system. Thus, 146 seats are required to form a majority. The assembly is presided over by the Chairman of the Assembly, who is usually the majority coalition leader and who, like his counterpart in the Senate, has the power to call votings that result in a tie. The term of the Assembly is four years.

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  Interior of the Assembly chamber

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  Emblem of the Assembly