Assembly of the People

The Assembly of the People is the lower chamber of the Terran tricameral parliament. It is made up of 675 legislators which are directly elected in general elections every six years. The presiding officer of the Assembly is called the First Legislator. The Assembly is responsible for passing laws, budgets and with putting forward a candidate for Chancellor of the Republic, which is then either accepted or rejected by the Committee. Despite officially being known as Legislators, members of the Assembly are often referred to as MPs, unlike Senators and Representatives. 
Legislators group themselves in various factions, which are grouping of several parties and coalitions with broadly similar ideologies. Over the past three centuries, the Assembly has been dominated by the Federalists and Technocratic faction, which are in a state of perpetual coalition. These two factions trace their roots to the Technocrat Moderates and Technocrat Hardliners respectively, two subfactions of the Custodian's Technocratic party.