Assembly of the Sea

Assembly of the Sea
Marlandic Legislative Order
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Council of the Sea National Council
Leadership
Chancellor	David Ross, Independent since Feburary 2015
Leader of the Government/ Vice Chancellor	Tom Barham, MNP since April 2014
Leader of the Opposition	Vacant, MP since Feburary 2015
Structure
Seats	10 Councillors 1 Speaker
Council of the Sea political groups	Government (7)   MNP (4)   LS (3) Opposition (3)   MP (3) Speaker (1)   Independent (1)
National Council political groups	Opposition (3)   MP (3) Minority (3)   The Purple Party (3)
Elections
Council of the Sea voting system	Mixed Member Proportional Representation

This page is about the National Assembly of Marland. For more information on the Republic of Marland, go to its page

The Assembly of the Sea is the National Assembly of the Non-Territorial Republic of Marland. It is a bicameral legislature. It was founded with the founding of Marland in April 2014.

The upper house of the assembly is the only one active at this point in time, as there is insufficient membership in Marland to justify the need for a Lower House. However, there is one which is de Jure in place, even if there are no members.

The upper house, the Council of the Sea, acts as a joint head of state, with the singular speaker having very little power overall in the assembly.

Members of the Marlandic Legislative Order

Council of the Sea

• Speaker
  • Chancellor David Ross (Independent)
• League of National Shadows
  • Marlandic National Party (4)
    • Tom Barham
    • Sarah Davis
    • Raphael Wixted
    • Olivia Schultz
  • League of Shadowdawn (3)
    • Matthias Eames
    • Sam Crighton
    • Matthew McDonald
• Monarchist Party (3)
  • Jamie Giles
  • Sam Moore
• independent (1)
  • Benjamin Felix

National Council

• Monarchist Party (2)
  • Elizabeth Crighton
  • Steph Ludwicki
• The Purple Party (3)
  • Texas Barnes
  • Isabella Riva
  • Tenzin Lundberg

Each party votes for which members are to be put onto the council on the 1st of May, to coincide with the voting for party heads.

Structure of Legislature

National Council

30%

20%

10%

30%

10%

Key:

National Party

Neighbour Party

Liberal Party

Purple Party

independent

Total Seats: 10

Legislative Assembly

16.6%

16.6%

16.6%

25%

8.3%

Key:

National Party

Neighbour Party

Purple Party

Liberal Party

independent

Elections

General elections are carried out on the 1st of May, and each citizen votes for the party the want in power. Each citizen gets two votes, one for first choice (which counts as two votes) and one for second (counting as one). Then, these votes are counted, and out of a possible ten seats in the Council of the Sea, a percentage of each party will be added to the council, to be decided by each individual party by vote.