Imperial Diet (New Europe)

Imperial Diet Reichstag
Type
Type	Lower House
Seats	11
Meeting place
Harold Washington Library (Historical)
Website
none

The Imperial Diet (German: Reichstag) was the lower house of the Imperial Assembly, New Europe's legislative branch. It had 11 members, elected indirectly on block lists by proportional representation. Deputies served six-month terms. The President of the Imperial Diet was the analogue to a Speaker and presided over debates in New Europe's lower chamber of parliament.

Presidents

Presidents of the Imperial Diet

	Name	Party	Beginning of term	End of term	Length of term
1	Catherine Willoughby	Conservative Party	20 January 2009	29 August 2009	7 months, 1 week and 2 days
2	Vaughn Bullock	Fascist Party	29 August 2009	19 January 2010	4 months and 3 weeks
-	post vacant		24 January 2010	1 August 2010	6 months, 1 week and 1 day
3	Alexander Huber	Nationalist Party	10 June 2011	31 December 2011	6 months, 2 weeks and 6 days
4	Eric Perez	Socialist Party	1 January 2012	6 March 2013	1 year, 2 months and 5 days

Powers

The Imperial Diet had special powers enumerated by the Constitution of New Europe. They were:

• approving the resolution of the issue of confidence in the national government;
• proclamation of amnesty;
• advancing charges against the Imperial Chancellor for their impeachment;
• declaration of peace or war

All bills were first approved by the Imperial Diet and were further debated and approved (or rejected) by the Imperial Council within five days.