States General

## Upper House

The States General (Dutch: Staten-Generaal) is the legislative body of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. It is bicameral, having two houses, the Lower House (Dutch: Tweede Kamer) and the Upper House (Dutch: Eerste Kamer).

## Powers of the States General

### Approval of Laws

The States General votes on all laws with them starting in the Lower House where they may be amended, approved or denied. If they are approved they are then sent to the Upper House where they may be approved or denied. If they are approved by the Upper House they require the signature of the President and one Minister to be added to law. In some cases for a law to be passed a **joint-session** may be called in which both Houses may vote together.

### Appointment of the Prime Minister and other Ministers

The States General appoints the Prime Minister and other Ministers in Joint Sessions requiring a majority of the Joint-Session to vote in favor.

### Vote of No-Confidence

The States General may start a vote of No-Confidence against the Government in a joint-session, is it passed the government shall be removed and a new one formed. Is the States General unable to form a new government, new elections are held.

## Elections of the Houses

### The Upper House

The Upper House has half the seats of the Lower House. The Upper House is elected using Single Transferable Vote in Provinces. If a Province does not have a high enough population for a member of the Upper House, it merges with an other Province.

### The Lower House

The Lower House consists of Representatives elected using Mixed Member Proportional Representation. Each province has 1 representative and another half of that amount are assigned using MMP.

## Structure

### Political Groups

Government:•🟦 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (6)

Opposition:

•🟥 Socialist Party (1)

•🟪 Dutch Constitutional Party (2)

## Elections

### Election Frequency

Every 2 Years or upon disbanding of the States General

## Political Parties

The United Provinces consist of 5 political parties, of which 3 are in the States General.

### People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is a party which was formed after the merging of the Christian Union and the Labour Party. It is Center Right.

### Socialist Party

The Socialist Party is a left to far-left party which was formed as a response to the formation of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.

### Dutch Constitutional Party

The Dutch Constitutional Party is a Right wing pro-monarchist party.

### Orange Front

The Orange Front (Dutch: Oranje Front) is an Ultranationalist party in the Netherlands. It was founded by grootofficier due to disputes with the NSNAP.

### National Socialist Dutch Worker's Party

The National Socialist Dutch Worker's Party (Dutch: Nationaal-Socialistische Nederlandsche Arbeiderspartij) is a Dutch far-right extremist party. It was founded by R3DSkyblusky after the annexation of Nazi-Germany by the Netherlands.

### Christian Union

The Christian Union (Dutch: ChristenUnie) was a Centrist to Center-Right political party in the Netherlands.

## Christian Union

### Members

President:• Skulli73

Members of the States General:

• Prime Minister InvolvedComet92

• Minister Termicfish8001

• Lower House Speaker QTVNickBro

• alonsogab

### Labour Party

The Labour Party (Dutch: Partij van de Arbeid) was a social-democratic party in the Netherlands.

## Labour Party

### Members

Members of the States General:• KahluaMilk• Aredma