Parliament of Fluvique
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate House of Representatives
Leadership
Monarch	Eugenie Since October 18, 2014
Prime Minister of Fluvique	August Moine, Social Justice Party Since February 11, 2008
Speaker of the Senate	Loan Baldwin, Social Justice Party Since November 14, 2016
Speaker of the House of Representatives	Filippo Deschamps, Social Justice Party Since November 10, 2013
Structure
Seats	342 97 senators 245 representatives
Senate political groups	Government (97) Social Justice Party (51) Opposition (46) Socialist (22) Conservative (19) Liberal (5)
House of Representatives political groups	Government (94) Social Justice Party (94) Confidence and supply Socialist dissidents (28) Opposition parties (118) Conservative (58) Socialist (37) Liberal (23)
Elections
Senate voting system	Plurality by constituency
House of Representatives voting system	Plurality by constituency
Senate last election	November 12, 2016
House of Representatives last election	October 20, 2013
Meeting place
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Parliament Palace

The Parliament of Fluvique (French: Parlement du Fluvique, Spanish:Parlamento de Fluvique) is the federal legislative branch of Fluvique, seated at the Parliament Palace in the national capital, Mevosa. The body consists of the Fluviquean monarch; an upper house: the Senate; and a lower house: the House of Representatives. Each element has its own officers and organization. The monarch summons and appoints each of the 342 members of the parliament, directly elected by elegible Fluviquean voters, with each MP representing a single electoral district.

By constitutional convention, the House of Representatives is the dominant branch of parliament, the Senate and Crown rarely opposing its will. The Senate reviews legislation from a less partisan standpoint and the monarch provides the necessary Royal Assent to make bills into law. The Monarch also summons parliament and can prorogue or dissolve parliament, the latter in order to call a general election. It will read the Throne Speech. The most recent parliament, summoned by King George in 2014, is the 26th since Kingdom in 1871.

Composition

The Parliament of Fluvique is composed of three parts: the monarch, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Each has a distinct role, but work in conjunction within the legislative process. Only those who sit in the House of Representatives are called members of parliament (MPs); the term is never applied to senators, even though the Senate is a part of parliament. Though legislatively less powerful, senators take higher positions in the national order of precedence. No individual may serve in more than one chamber of parliament at the same time.

Monarch

The sovereign's place in the legislature, formally called the Queen-in-Parliament, is defined by the Constitution Act, 1870, and various conventions. However, she don't participates in the legislative process, save for signifying the Queen's approval to a bill passed by both houses in parliament, known as the granting of Royal Assent, which is necessary for a bill to be encated as law. All federal bills thus begin with the phrase "Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Representatives of Fluvique, enacts as follows..." and, as such, the Crown is immune from acts of parliament unless expressed otherwise in the act itself. The governor general will normally perform the task of granting Royal Assent, though the monarch may also do so, at the request of the Cabinet, who may defer assent to the sovereign as per the constitution.

As the monarch is traditionally barred from the House of Representatives, any parliamentary ceremonies in which she is involved take place in the Senate chamber. Before every meeting, the royal anthem 'Reign over us forever' is performed, indicating the allegiance to the Queen, the representation on her behalf, her authority as Queen-in-Parliament and the privilege granted to that body by her.

Members of the two houses of parliament must also express their loyalty to the sovereign and defer to her authority, as the Oath of Allegiance must be sworn by all new parliamentarians before they may take their seats. Further, the opposition is formally called as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, to signify that, though they may be opposed to the incumbent Cabinet's policies, these MPs remain dedicated to the apolitical Crown.

Senate

The upper house of the Parliament of Fluvique, the Senate (French: Sénat; Spanish: Senado), is a group of 97 individuals appointed by the Queen on the advice of the prime minister; all those summoned to the Senate by the Queen must, per the constitution, be a minimum of 30 years old, be a subject of the monarch, and be native to the province of his office, or have been a resident of that province for two years. Senators serve for five years or many resign their seats prior to the elections and can lose their position should they fail to attend two consecutive sessions of parliament.

The Senate is divided equally among three groups of provinces: 20 for Mevosa, 20 for Betham and 20 for Geneva; 5 for Aztus, Alkanter, Liberty Territory and Greencastle; one for Saint Lucie, Point Territory, Sallcia, Crenel, South Cape, Terralands and Yellow Islands Territory; Saint Matthew, which forms an unique group with 10 senators.

The number of allocated Senators is result of dividing the provincial total population between 130.00 (for the first group) and between 120.000 for the less populated provinces. There have been a large amount of bills to place a base number of senators for the second group of provinces and to reduce the population coeficient. However, they were rejected, but a partial reform was passed in 2006, to recalculate the numbers of senators before every election in base of an estimated population

House of Representatives

The lower house of the Fluviquean parliament is the House of Representatives, iwhc each member chosen by a plurality of eligible voters in each of the country's federal electoral districts. To run for one of the 245 seats in the house, an individual must be at least 30 years old and each winner holds office until parliament is dissolved, usually after five years of the last election, after which they may seek re-election. The districts are regularly reorganised according to the results of each decennial national census, however, the 'senatorial clause' of the National Constitution guarantees each province at least as many MPs as it has senators.

The House of Commons was established in 1871, when the 1853 Constitution was re-written to adopt a Constitutional Monarchy as form of government. The lower of the two houses making up the parliament, the House of Representatives in practice holds far more power than the upper house, the Senate. Although the approval of both Houses is necessary for legislation, the Senate very rarely rejects bills passed by the Representatives (though the Senate does occasionally amend bills). Moreover, the Government of Fluvique is responsible solely to the House of Representatives. The Prime Minister stays in office only as long as he or she retains the support, or "confidence", of the lower house.

The calculation for the provinces is done with a base of 240 seats. The total population of the provinces and territories) is then divided by 240 to equal the electoral quotient. The population of the province is then divided by the electoral quotient to equal the base provincial-seat allocation, bringing the total number of seats to 245