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Municipal Assembly of Andraid Assemblia comunal d'Andraid
File:Andraid CoA.svg
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
President	Clod Molin (PLV) since 9 May 2019
Structure
Seats	100 members
Political groups	Government (52)   PLV 24   Greens 14   PRS 14 Opposition parties (48)   PLDV 19   PPV 12   PRN 7   PSD 3   DN 3   PCPV 2   PAV 1   RVF 1
Committees	List Finance Traffic and Employment Housing and Sports Elderly and Suburbs Education and Training Urban Environment Social Services Culture and Property
Elections
Voting system	Party-list proportional representation
Last election	28 April 2019
Meeting place
Municipal Palace, Andraid
Website
andraid.gov.vt/assemblia

The Municipal Assembly of Andraid (Javol: Assemblia comunal d'Andraid) is the legislative body of the Municipal Government of Andraid, the government of the city of Andraid, the capital city of Vetonia. The Municipal Assembly acts as both a district assembly and a city council under the 1920 Capital City Regime Law. Under the 1920, the Assembly elects and holds accountable the members of the Municipal Executive Board including the Mayor. It can also dismiss them through a vote of no confidence. Unlike all other municipal and districts assemblies, the Assembly has legislative initiative and all laws and local ordinances, including the city's budget, require its support.

The Municipal Assembly is formed by a 100 members elected every six years from the city's ten districts via proportional representation. The current Municipal Assembly was elected in Abril 2019 and returned a left-wing majority for the seventh consecutive legislative term. Since May 2019, the president of the municipal assembly is Clod Molin.

Organisation

View of the plenary chamber of the Municipal Assembly.

Assembly groups

Assembly groups are formed by individual assembly members and typically coincide with the political parties that ran in the municipal elections. Assembly groups have special benefits compared to non-attached members, including a dedicated budget, longer speaking times, seat allocation in the committees as well as group offices in the Municipal Palace. Assembly group members elect a spokesperson from among them, usually the party's candidate for the mayoralty.

Assembly groups need to be formed by more than four members, with the exception of assembly members from the Rugrese ethnic parties that may form their own assembly group regardless of the number of members. Assembly members that do not belong to any assembly group seat in the heterogeneous mixed group. There are currently seven groups, six from major political parties and a one-person group from the Rugrese Electoral Coalition. As of 2019, the mixed group is formed by 9 members from 4 different parties.

Committees

Most legislative work carried out in the Municipal Assembly is done by its various specialised committees. Currently, there are eight committees with different portfolios. Each committee is formed by 11 members and by 6 alternates. The members of the committees are appointed by the assembly groups and are distributed proportionally to their share of the seats in the plenary. Each committee is headed by a president, who is elected by a majority of the members through a secret ballot. For significant bills, committees can appoint ex officio rapporteurs to prepare reports on the bill.

In a similar fashion to the Chamber of Deputies, although bills are tabled by the municipal government or individual members in the plenary sessions, actual legislative work including the proposal of amendments and negotiations are carried out by committees. Bills are voted in the plenary session on the advice the reports drafted of the competent committees.

The current committees are:

Comittee	President
Finance		xx (PLDV)
Traffic and Employment		xx (PRS)
Housing and Sports		xx (PLV)
Elderly and Suburbs		xx (PLDV)
Education and Training		xx (PPV)
Urban Environment		xx (V/G)
Social Services		xx (PLV)
Culture and Property		xx (PRN)

Elections

Elections to the Municipal Assembly are held every six years via open list proportional representation together with the local elections in the rest of the country. Each administrative district of the city serves as an assembly constituency electing from five to 16 members. The allocation of seats to each party is done via the largest remainder method employing the Hare quota.

Unlike regular local authorities, in the case a sitting Executive Board loses a vote of no confidence, an early election can be called, but the legislature will only seat until the next regularly-scheduled local election, at which point elections will be held again.

Constituency	Members	Map
Andraid I.	7	File:Andraid Municipal Assembly constituencies 2019.svg
Andraid II.	16
Andraid III.	11
Andraid IV.	5
Andraid V.	9
Andraid VI.	8
Andraid VII.	11
Andraid VII.	10
Andraid IX.	9
Andraid X.	14

Current composition

As of October 2019, the composition of the Municipal Assembly is as follows:

Political party		Spokesperson	Members
	Workers' Party (PLV)	?	24
	Liberal Democratic Party (PLDV)	?	19
	Greens (V/G)	?	14
	Republican-Socialist Party (PRS)	?	14
	People's Party (PPV)	?	12
	National Republican Party (PRN)	?	7
	Democratic Left (PSD)	?	3
	National Democracy (DN)	?	3
	Communist Party (PCPV)	?	2
	Agrarian Party (PAV)	?	1
	Rugrese Electoral Coalition (RVF)	?	1