Federal Assembly (Balakia)

National Assembly of the Balak Federation
4th Federal Assembly
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Common Council Council of Elders
Term limits	None
Leadership
President of Balakia	Zôçey Seğâren, Party for the Republic Since 2018
TBD	Sazar Şon, Party for the Republic Since TBD
Structure
Seats	404 Councillors 67 Elders
File:Common Council seats.svg
File:Council of Elders seats.svg
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Common Council voting system	Parallel voting: First past the post (202 seats) Party-list proportional representation (202 seats)
Meeting place
File:Balak Federal Assembly.png
TBD, Sâcar

The National Assembly of the Balak Federation, commonly known as the Federal Assembly, is the supreme bicameral legislative body of Balakia.

Composition

Council of Elders

Members of the Council of Elders are not elected, either by popular vote or by the state parliaments, but are instead delegated by the respective state government. They do not enjoy a free mandate and serve only as long as they are representing their state, not for a fixed period of time.

Normally, a state delegation consists of the (TBD) and other cabinet ministers. The state cabinet may appoint as many delegates as the state has votes (all other ministers/senators are usually appointed as deputy delegates), but may also send just a single delegate to exercise all of the state's votes. In any case, the state has to cast its votes en bloc, i.e., without vote splitting. As state elections are not coordinated across Balakia and can occur at any time, the majority distributions in the Council of Elders can change after any such election.

The number of votes a state is allocated is based on a form of degressive proportionality according to its population. This way, smaller states have more votes than a distribution proportional to the population would grant. The allocation of votes is regulated by the Balak constitution. All of a state's votes are cast en bloc, either for or against or in abstention of a proposal. Each state is allocated at least three votes, and a maximum of six. States with more than

• 2 million inhabitants have 4 votes,
• 6 million inhabitants have 5 votes,
• 7 million inhabitants have 6 votes.

In addition to the 66 votes held by the states, an additional vote is allocated to the Hoja of Şozasan, who represents the various religious councils of the country. While not theocratic in nature, Balakia is prevented from referring to itself as an officially secular country due to this arrangement.

Current distribution of votes

State	Population	Votes	Population per vote	Governing parties G (Government) N (Neutral) O (Opposition)	Next regular election	Presidency
Balâçik	9,194,768	6   █ █ █ █ █ █	1,532,461	TBD	TBD	TBD
Çinduş	3,108,642	4   █ █ █ █	777,161	TBD	TBD	TBD
Côvayâ	1,812,045	3   █ █ █	604,015	TBD	TBD	TBD
Hamâvan	7,987,194	6   █ █ █ █ █ █	1,331,199	TBD	TBD	TBD
Kazan	2,569,139	4   █ █ █ █	642,285	TBD	TBD	TBD
Kensesak	5,108,567	4   █ █ █ █	1,277,142	TBD	TBD	TBD
Meçin	1,035,875	3   █ █ █	345,292	TBD	TBD	TBD
Manatak Autonomous Territory	2,757,613	4   █ █ █ █	689,403	TBD	TBD	TBD
Sâcar F.C.	4,139,560	4   █ █ █ █	1,034,890	TBD	TBD	TBD
Seğâduş	5,019,476	4   █ █ █ █	1,254,869	TBD	TBD	TBD
Seğâreyek F.C.	2,684,675	4   █ █ █ █	671,169	TBD	TBD	TBD
Taraşik	6,294,764	5   █ █ █ █ █	1,258,953	TBD	TBD	TBD
Yarşemir	401,477	3   █ █ █	133,826	TBD	TBD	TBD
Yercêsven F.C.	7,248,604	6   █ █ █ █ █ █	1,208,101	TBD	TBD	TBD
Zonduş	7,895,727	6   █ █ █ █ █ █	1,315,955	TBD	TBD	TBD
(Hoja of Şozasan)	-	1   █	-	-	-	-
Total	67,258,126	67	1,003,853