General Assembly (The Leftist Assembly)

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General Assembly
7th General Assembly
The Leftist Assembly.png
Leadership
Secretary South Miruva
Prime Minister Atealia
Current Term
Start 14 December 2017
End 14 March 2018

The General Assembly is the legislature of The Leftist Assembly. It consists of seven members, including the Secretary, Prime Minister, and five Senators. Each position is elected using the single transferable voting system. Terms last for three months, with elections occurring in the latter half of March, June, September and December.

Bills affecting the Constitution go to a referendum and bills not affecting the Constitution go to a General Assembly vote, with both requiring fifty percent plus one vote in favour to pass.

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. As a result, the number of members of the General Assembly fell from nine to eight, but did not alter the vote threshold to pass bills.

Minister of Defence

The Military Removal Act was proposed by Llorens in the 7th General Assembly and passed by referendum, 20-4, on 25 October 2017. As per its changes, the Minister of Defence was abolished due to lack of Leftist Defence Force participation, despite every effort to do so over the existence of the region. As a result, the voting threshold on bills was also reduced to four votes from seven total members.

Senators

The Judicial Separation Act was proposed by Llorens in the 7th General Assembly and passed by referendum, 19-1 on 6 November 2017. As per its changes, the General Assembly would then consist of the Secretary, Prime Minister, and 5 Senators, with the Justices being nominated and approved by the Secretary in a separate Supreme Court, and Ministers being appointed at will by the Secretary. As a result,

Terms

The General Assembly is in its 8th term.

Term Election Secretary
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
8th December 2017 South Miruva

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.