Sedakania

Sedakania Sedakanien
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Sedakania located in Besmenia
Country	Besmenia
Capital	Helmfurt
Government
• Type	Parliamentary republic, partially sovereign member state of a federal state
• Body	State Chamber of Sedakania
• Governor	Vanessa Halm (BVP)
• Governing party	BVP/NBP
• Federal Senate votes	6 (of 64)
Population  (2021)
• Total	11,782,305
Demonym	Sedakanian

Sedakania (Besmenian: Sedakanien) is one of the 14 states of Besmenia. Sedakania is the northernmost state of Besmenia and the largest in terms of population and area. The state capital is Helmfurt.

Politics

Executive

The executive is led by the state government of Sedakania, which consists of the Greuningian governors and the state ministers. The governor is elected by the state chamber with a majority of its members without debate in a secret ballot for the entire legislative period. The governor appoints and dismisses state ministers. He also appoints a state minister as his deputy. The state chamber can only depose the governor through a constructive vote of no confidence.

Sedakanian state government

Governors of Sedakania since 1967
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Election
1	File:Thomas Dingelstedt.png	Thomas Dingelstedt (1902-1978)	4 November 1967	5 November 1973	BVP	1967 1972
2	File:Rudolf Volksmann.png	Rudolf Volksmann (1910-2000)	5 November 1973	12 October 1982	BVP	1977
3		Rainer Spindler (1933-2020)	12 October 1982	20 October 2002	BVP	1982 1987 1992 1997 2002
4	File:Arnold Keßler.jpg	Arnold Keßler (1943-)	20 October 2002	7 June 2010	BVP	2007
5	File:Michael Stämper.jpg	Michael Stämper (1958-2019)	7 June 2010	1 August 2019 †	BVP	2012 2017
6		Vanessa Halm (1976-)	8 August 2019	Incumbent	BVP	2022

List of Sedakanian state governments

Overview of Sedakanian state governments since 1967

No.	State government	Tenure	Governor	Involved Parties
1.	Dingelstedt I	1967–1972	Thomas Dingelstedt (BVP)	BVP,   BRP
2.	Dingelstedt II	1972–1973		BVP,   BELP
3.	Volksmann I	1973–1977	Rudolf Volksmann (BVP)
4.	Volksmann II	1977–1982		BVP,   FBBP
5.	Spindler I	1982–1983	Rainer Spindler (BVP)
6.	Spindler II	1983–1987		BVP
7.	Spindler III	1987–1992
8.	Spindler IV	1992–1997
9.	Spindler V	1997–2002
10.	Keßler I	2002–2007	Arnold Keßler (BVP)	BVP,   FBBP

Legislature

The legislature is the State Chamber of Sedakania, which is elected every five years using the proportional representation. The Sedakanian parliament consists of 144 members. All voters who have reached the age of 16 have the right to vote. All parties with more than five percent of the votes are represented in the state parliament.

Administrative divisions

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The 15 discricts of Sedakania

Sedakania is divided into districts (Landbezirk).