Parliament of Llorens

Llorens Parliament
1st Parliament of Llorens
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	Parliament
Leadership
President	Elisabeth Harland, Socialist Party
Vice-President	Josef Cervenka, Green Party
Structure
Parliament political groups	Socialist Party (26)      Green Party (22)      Progressive Party (19)      Democratic Party (15)      Worker's Party (7)      People's Party (4)      National Party (2)      Independents (5)
Length of term7	1 year
Elections
Parliament voting system	Single transferable voting
Parliament last election	Llorenian federal election, 2016
Parliament next election	Llorenian federal election, 2017

The Parliament of Llorens is the unicameral legislature of the Federal Republic of Llorens. 100 members are elected to one-year terms in Parliament through a single transferable voting system. The current Parliament is the 1st Parliament of Llorens.

The most recent election was held on June 24, 2016. This election elected all 100 members of Parliament. The most successful party was the Socialist Party, with 26 seats, and then the Green Party, with 22 seats. Consequently, the Socialist Party leader, Elisabeth Harland, was appointed as the 1st President of Llorens, and the Green Party leader, Josef Cervenka, was appointed as the 1st Vice-President of Llorens.

Composition

The Parliament of Llorens consists of 100 members, commonly known as MP's (members of Parliament). There are 5 members that represent each of the 20 divisions. There are 4 divisions in each of the 5 states. The Parliament structure is an arch-shape, with the parties being positioned from left to right in descending number of members.

The leader of the party with the most seats is appointed President, and the leader of the party with the second most seats is appointed Vice-President.

To be eligible to become a member of Parliament, an individual must be a Llorenian citizen aged 18 years or older.

Procedure

Procedure of the Parliament

A proposed law is first submitted to the Llorens Law Commission, a panel of 20 experts, to be revised and amended. Eleven or more experts on the panel are required to apply a revision of the proposed law, though these decisions can be overturned with a 60% majority vote in Parliament. If the LLC decision is overturned by Parliament, the proposed law is returned to the LLC so that it can be changed in accordance with the new decision. Further amendments can be suggested in Parliament, and if at least 5 members have endorsed this suggestion, it will go to a Parliament majority vote. Each time a revision is accepted through the majority vote, the proposed law is returned to the LLC.

Once the proposed law has been finalised, a select 10 members will give a maximum 12-minute speech on their viewpoint of the proposal. After this maximum of 2 hours, all 100 members of Parliament may vote on the proposed law, though any member can abstain from the vote without affecting the number needed for it to pass. If 51 or more members voted in favour of the proposed law, it will be passed into legislation. If less than 51 members voted against the proposed law, it will not be passed into legislation.

Functions

The primary function of Parliament is to pass proposed laws into legislation. A proposed law may be passed if it receives over 50% of the vote in Parliament, after a process of revisions in both the Llorens Law Commission and Parliament. Other functions include calling emergency Parliament meetings and discussing matters of urgent public importance. At the end of each day session of Parliament, the Cabinet face questions from all members of Parliament on any topic that was covered in the day session. This additional session is called Cabinet Questions.

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