General Assembly (The Leftist Assembly)
6th General Assembly | |
Leadership | |
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Secretary | Llorens |
Prime Minister | Franckley |
Structure | |
Seats | 9 |
The General Assembly is the legislature of The Leftist Assembly. It consists of eight members (transitioning from nine to eight in the next election due to recently changed legislation), including the Secretary and the heads of all four ministries, and laws and amendments may be proposed by any member. Bills affecting the Constitution go to a referendum and require fifty percent plus one vote in favour to pass, and bills not affecting the Constitution go to a General Assembly vote and require five votes in favour to pass. Each position is elected using the alternative voting system and terms last for three months, with elections occurring in the second half of March, June, September and December.
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History
Party system
Upon its founding, the region functioned with a multi-party system. This system was complicated and details were often disputed between editors and interpreters. Essentially, candidates were nominated to different positions by their party. Once these were elected, an additional vote was held to determine the number of seats each party received out of the total 100 in the General Assembly. Rather than there being 100 individual nations each representing their party, each party would put forward a single stance on each legislation. For example, the 1st General Assembly required any two parties to vote for a piece of legislation to pass it. In late August 2016, the members of the region democratically chose to change the government to an independent system in the form of a 9-member council, as proposed by Llorens.
Tiered Justices
The Legal Standard Act was proposed by Llorens in the 5th General Assembly and passed by referendum, 18-3, on 21 May 2017. As per its changes, the positions of Chief Justice, First Justice and Second Justice, held at the time by New Lonopolian Empire, Rathfarnham and Llorens respectively, were each renamed to Justice and given equal voting power on all legal proceedings of the Ministry of Law.
Secretary voting power
The Equal Vote Act was proposed by Llorens in the 6th General Assembly and passed by referendum, 18-3, on 18 July 2017. As per its changes, the Secretary was stripped of their power to change the required vote to pass a bill if they were not in favour of it and instead established standard requirements for all bills to be passed, irrespective of the Secretary's approval of it. These changes would not have affected any bills ever previously passed by the General Assembly.
Nine members
The Legislature Reduction Act was proposed by Llorens in the 6th General Assembly and passed by referendum, 12-5, on 25 July 2017. As per its changes, the Minister of Immigration and Customs was merged into the Minister of Foreign Affairs as of the September 2017 election. In effect, this change would reduce the number of members of the General Assembly from nine to eight, but not alter the required number of five votes to pass legislation.
Terms
The General Assembly is in its 6th term.
Term | Election | Secretary |
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1st | March 2016 | Atealia |
2nd | - | Atealia |
3rd | September 2016 | Cedoria |
4th | December 2016 | Cedoria |
5th | March 2017 | Losinia/Atealia |
6th | June 2017 | Llorens |
7th | September 2017 | Llorens |
Procedure
For a proposal to be ratified, it must undergo the formal legislative process before voting. This consists of creating an Act with a description, the existing law being affected and the alternative law being proposed, submitting it for General Assembly discussion and opening the discussion for public feedback. Following this, a vote may be held on the proposed legislation. For it to be passed, it must receive five votes in favour.
Positions
Secretary
The responsibilities of the Secretary:
- Serving as the head of the region for all legislative, diplomatic and military action
- Declaring the State of Emergency
- Appointing all appointed government positions
Prime Minister
The responsibilities of the Prime Minister:
- Briefing the Secretary
- Acting as an assistant to the Secretary
- Holding the authority to make decisions in the Secretary's absence
Minister of Archives
The responsibilities of the Minister of Archives:
- Documenting any major political or historical event of the region
- Running a state-run periodical
Minister of Defence
The responsibilities of the Minister of Defence:
- Leading the regional military
- Dealing with foreign incidents involving R/D gameplay
- Authorising enemy invasion and allied defence operations
Minister of Foreign Affairs
The responsibilities of the Minister of Foreign Affairs:
- Overseeing regional recruitment
- Maintaining the welcome telegram
- Handling embassies and inter-regional cooperation
- Co-authorising Declarations of War with the Secretary
Justices
The roles and responsibilities of the Justices:
- Determining laws and bills as unconstitutional
- Studying and further defining all legislation
- Managing arguments on constitutional interpretation
- Hosting court cases
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