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by The Divine Federation of Sanctaria. . 1,163 reads.

Overview

Sanctaria is a constitutional parliamentary republic and is a member state of the World Assembly. The Houses of Parliament is a bicameral parliament composed of the President, the Senate as the upper house and the House of Deputies as the lower house. Eagleton Manor is the official residence of the President of Sanctaria, while both Houses of Parliament meet at St.George's Palace in Sanctus.

The President serves as head of state, and is elected for a ten to twelve-year term and may be re-elected twice. The President is primarily a figurehead, but is entrusted with certain constitutional powers. The President has absolute discretion in some areas, such as referring a bill to the Supreme Court for a judgement on its constitutionality. Once the House of Deputies elects the head of government, the President appoints that person as the Prime Minister. Most Prime Ministers have served as the leader of the political party that gains the most seats in national elections. The Prime Minister then appoints the Government.

The Senate is composed of one hundred members, and is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members selected in a number of ways. Fifty are appointed by the mayors of Sanctaria's fifty largest cities (as determined by the previous census), ten are appointed by the outgoing Prime Minister, twenty-five are elected by graduates of Sanctarian Universities, and fifteen are elected by Sanctarian Trade Unions, giving a total of one hundred members. The House of Deputies has had 550 members (MPs) elected to represent multi-seat constituencies under the system of proportional representation and by means of the single transferable vote.

There are various political parties represented in the Houses of Parliament but in the current parliament, the largest parties are the Government party, the Sanctarian Conservative Party and the Official Opposition party, the Democratic Left Party.

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