Adorian National Assembly

The **National Assembly** (**NA**) is the legislative body of Serene Kingdom of Adoria and directly elected using party-list proportional representation, with the Vice President as the Head of the Assembly.

The constitution currently allows for up to 100 Assembly members to be elected at one time, the election commission decides how many seats will be able to be elected each election. It currently comprises of 85 elected members and the aforementioned Vice President.

Legislation may be initiated by either the Government, the President or one of the members of the Assembly. The Assembly passes legislation, decides on the state budget, approves international treaties, and supervises the activities of the government. It may dismiss the Government, override presidential vetoes, and alter the constitution.

Governments are formed from seats of the Assembly, where all members of the government is also a member of the assembly. Governments are chosen by a majority of seats, since it is a multi-party system, no one party can get a majority easily on its own, so coalitions between multiple parties are favored. The first political party in Adoria's history to achieve a majority was the Imperial Unity Party in the 25th Assembly. 43 seats is needed for a majority.

## Function

The National Assembly is the main legislative body of Serene Kingdom of Adoria, where discussion of proposed legislation and review of the actions of the cabinet takes place. The President, Cabinet and the National Assembly itself have the right to propose legislation; the National Assembly discusses it and, if adopted by a majority, sends it on to the President. Review of the actions of the cabinet takes the form of formal interrogations, which may result in motions urging the cabinet to take, or refrain from, certain actions. The National Assembly is also responsible for the affirmation of new Justices on the Supreme Court Judgeson the High Court, and the Chairman of the Bank of Adoria.

The assembly also approves the budget made by the Ministry of Finance. It has the sole power of impeachment and may remove any member from public office. The assembly may override decisions made by the government and the president by a 3/5 vote.

All legislation made must be approved by a majority unless specially noted by the constitution, and must be voted on in 24 hours per article 50, and backed up by a High Court order, legislation may be resent to the assembly for a 3/5 vote by the President.

## Elections

The normal term of the Assembly is two weeks. Elections are called when the government loses Assembly confidence, the governing coalition breaks down, the term of the National Assembly expires, or when no governing coalition can be formed.

Adoria uses the Adorian Election System (AES), AES works by producing a simulated vote for each registered party that contributes a high degree of the final total seats. The system relies on the AES Executive Team, a group of approximately 5 carefully selected members of the server recording and inputting data based on a series of categories & criteria to achieve a fair and balanced result. The total seats awarded to each party are based on the results of automatic calculations. Depending on how parties act and perform, they get a certain percentage of votes from certain demographics of the population which are then used to calculate how many seats they get out of the 60% of seats responsible under AES, with the other 40% coming from the public vote.

### Parties

Anybody eligible to vote in Adoria also has the right to establish a political party and contest elections for the National Assembly. A party needs to have at least 10 citizens to contest for an election.

### Voting

Each voter is able to choose from either a party or an independent candidate, at the end of the 24 hours since posting the elections the votes will be verified and counted using the modified D'Hondt method.

## Legislative groups

*See also: Current Political Parties of Adoria*

Members of the National Assembly (MNA) work in groups. Groups are usually in the form of political parties or an alliance of political parties. Each group has one or two leaders and a party leadership, who leads the group of MNAs in the assembly and set the main agenda for that group. Seats in the assembly are owned by the party and not the individual person, and the party leadership may revoke a seat from one of its members if they feel the member is being insubordinate, or for any other reason listed in article 48 of the constitution.

Independents work independently of a party/group and may set his/her own agenda in the assembly.

### Formation of government

*See also: List of Adorian Governments*

The government is formed by an alliance of political parties/groups in the assembly known as a coalition. Negotiations are held by party leaders to find a common agenda for the legislative session. The party with the most seats is usually the leader of the coalition, known as the senior party with the party leader given the Premiership, other members of the party leadership may also be given the role by the coalition. Junior parties are sometimes given the role by the coalition. After the coalition has discussed their agenda and all cabinet positions are allocated to the parties within the coalition, it is sent to the President, where all parties must consent publicly to the coalition. After all parties consent, the President appoints the Prime Minister and the cabinet that was submitted. Article 29 of the constitution defines this.

## Legislative Committees

Legislative Committees are a group of MNAs chosen by a Minister that leads that committee. there are 11 committees one for each ministry and 2 special committees. The Vice president and Prime Minister is a member of all committees with the Deputy Ministers being the head of the committee.

Committees has the power to, hold hearings on their own in their field, these may be joint committee hearings if the subject is broader than their own committee, suggest that ministers change policy and/or ask they make an Executive Order on certain topics, oversee of all national and local agencies and companies owned or run by the government that are part of their jurisdiction, hold votes to remove other committee members and/or the Deputy Minister, hold votes to author legislation jointly under the name of their committee, hold votes to sign legislation jointly under the name of their committee.

The National Defense Council is a special committee and its operations are defined by article 32 of the constitution. The Adorian Workers Protection Act Council is also a special committee set by the Adorian Workers Protection Act.

List of committees:

 Adorian Workers Protection Act Council

## Election results

*Main article: 76th Adorian Election*

Result of the election held on May 12, 2022: