Great Council

Great Council Storting (Rigjordic) Remsting (Lilledic) Suurineuvosto (Nausikaan)
18th Great Council of Crylante
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	States' Assembly (Conventus de Stadelle/Stadelleting/Ihmisneuvosto) People's Assembly (Conventus de Populum/Folketing/Osavaltioneuvosto)
History
Founded	March 31, 1941 (1941-03-31)
Preceded by	Parliament 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
Seats	276 225 People's Assembly 51 States' Assembly
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)
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
File:Alexandra La Blanc House.jpg
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