Federal Assembly (Balakia)
| National Assembly of the Balak Federation Balāk Cankoroc Movadareh Moḑem Balâk Şankoroş Movadareh Mojem | |
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| 4th Federal Assembly | |
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| Type | |
| Type | Bicameral |
| Houses | Common Council Council of Elders |
Term limits | None |
| Leadership | |
President of Balakia | |
TBD | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 658 Councillors 66 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 (329 seats) Party-list proportional representation (329 seats) |
| Meeting place | |
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| TBD, Qersheven | |
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The National Assembly of the Balak Federation (Balak: Balāk Cankoroc Movadareh Moḑem Balâk Şankoroş Movadareh Mojem [bɑˈlæ:k ˌʃɑŋkɔˈɾɔʃ mɔˌvɑdɑˈɾɛh mɔˈd͡ʒɛm]), commonly known as the Federal Assembly (Balak: Cankorocmoḑem Şankoroşmojem [ˌʃɑŋkɔˌɾɔʃmɔˈd͡ʒɛm]), is the supreme bicameral legislative body of Balakia. The Federal Assembly is bicameral, consisting of the Common Council and the Council of Elders, its lower and upper houses respectively.
History
Building
Composition and powers
Common Council
Election
Balakia uses the mixed-member proportional representation system; the election system for appointing Councillors to the Common Council is thus a hybrid system with two tiers. The Common Council, when in full session, comprises 658 Councillors, elected for a term of 5 Sayanic years.
Every elector has two votes on their ballot paper: a constituency vote and a party list vote. Based solely on the constituency votes, 329 Councillors are elected in single-member constituencies through first-past-the-post voting.
329 of the seats in the Common Council, the Constituency Seats, are filled through a popular vote using a first past the post system to represent each of the country's electoral districts, while the remaining 329, the List Seats, are assigned by means of party-list proportional representation, thus creating a perfect 50/50 split.
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 State President (or Mayor in the case of city-states) 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.
| State | Population | Votes | Population per vote |
Governing parties G (Government) N (Neutral) O (Opposition) |
Next regular election | Presidency |
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| Ayalshemir | 401,477 | 3 █ █ █ | 133,826 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Balachik | 9,194,768 | 6 █ █ █ █ █ █ | 1,532,461 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Chindensven | 4,139,560 | 4 █ █ █ █ | 1,034,890 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Boghshuy | 5,019,476 | 4 █ █ █ █ | 1,254,869 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Chindush | 3,108,642 | 4 █ █ █ █ | 777,161 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Covaya | 1,812,045 | 3 █ █ █ | 604,015 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Hamavan | 7,987,194 | 6 █ █ █ █ █ █ | 1,331,199 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Kazan | 2,569,139 | 4 █ █ █ █ | 642,285 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Kojara | 4,139,560 | 4 █ █ █ █ | 1,034,890 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Lower Maram | 5,108,567 | 4 █ █ █ █ | 1,277,142 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Manatak Autonomous Territory | 2,757,613 | 4 █ █ █ █ | 689,403 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Mechin | 1,035,875 | 3 █ █ █ | 345,292 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Qersheven | 7,248,604 | 6 █ █ █ █ █ █ | 1,208,101 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Tarashik | 6,294,764 | 5 █ █ █ █ █ | 1,258,953 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Upper Maram | 7,895,727 | 6 █ █ █ █ █ █ | 1,315,955 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Total | 67,258,126 | 66 | 1,019,063 | |||