Municipal Assembly of Andraid
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Municipal Assembly of Andraid Assemblia comunala d'Andraid | |
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| File:Andraid CoA.svg | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| Leadership | |
President | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 100 members |
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Political groups | Government (52)
Opposition parties (48) |
| Committees | |
| Elections | |
| Party-list proportional representation | |
Last election | 28 April 2019 |
| Meeting place | |
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| Municipal Palace, Andraid | |
| Website | |
| andraid.gov.vt/assemblia | |
The Municipal Assembly of Andraid (Javol: Assemblia comunala 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 Council including the Municipal President. 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.
History
The first known assembly that was formed by the citizens of Andraid can be traced back to the year 1103. This first assembly was known as the Consilium civitae in Classical Setentrian, the 'Council of the City'. The members were delegates from the city's fourteen most important guilds and formed both a legislative and a judicial body, and governed together with the consuls, who were appointed through sortition.
The government of the city was codified by a Charter enacted by the Great Duke xx in 1205, in which he recognised the city's rights and privileges and acknowledged the city's Consuls and its Council as the autonomous government of the city. The growing wealth of the city's urban oligarchy and the court after its selection as the permanent capital of ? in 1308 would begin to undermine the city's autonomy as successive Great Dukes acquired the rights to appoint the city's consuls and to approve of candidates to the Council. These reforms legally acknowledged in 1555, rendered the city's governance in the hand of a subservient urban patriciate and under close ducal supervision to guarantee the city's loyalty to the Crown.
As royal power consolidated beginning in the 16th century and until the 19th century, the position of the city Council became increasingly symbolic, as ducal magistrates acquired most legislative powers, turning the Consilium into a largely judicial body.
The creation of the Stadsrat or Consail comunal in 1843 as part of the reforms of ? created the first modern, elected city assembly. The assembly was dominated by the city's Rugrese majority and suffrage was limited to the wealthiest citizens of the city. As a result of immigration, the demographic balance of the city would began to shift during the latter half of the 19th century. By
Organisation
President
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 municipal presidency.
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 | |
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| Finance | xx (PLDV) | |
| Transport 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 Municipal Council 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 |
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| 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/PDV) | ? | 3 | |
| National Democracy (DN) | ? | 3 | |
| Communist Party (PCPV/KPVF) | ? | 2 | |
| Agrarian Party (PAV) | ? | 1 | |
| Rugrese Electoral Coalition (RVF) | ? | 1 | |