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The Great Court has existed in several forms since the establishment of the Crusader principality and is arguably the oldest provincial legislature in Urcea. In its current form, the Great Court has an upper chamber, the Lion Chamber, and a lower chamber, the Principal Assembly. The Lion Chamber, so called for the large room in which the highest knights and lords of the Principality once convened to discuss military affairs, is comprised of 18 High Magistrates. The Principal Assembly, the lower chamber, has 82 members. Both bodies, as per Urcean law, elect their legislators in specific legislative districts determined after every decennial census. The Great Court is unusual from other Urcean provincial legislatures not only due to its vintage but also by its nomenclature; nearly all other provincial legislatures simply use the terminology of "Legislature", "Senate", and "Assembly", giving Halfway a unique signifying tradition. | The Great Court has existed in several forms since the establishment of the Crusader principality and is arguably the oldest provincial legislature in Urcea. In its current form, the Great Court has an upper chamber, the Lion Chamber, and a lower chamber, the Principal Assembly. The Lion Chamber, so called for the large room in which the highest knights and lords of the Principality once convened to discuss military affairs, is comprised of 18 High Magistrates. The Principal Assembly, the lower chamber, has 82 members. Both bodies, as per Urcean law, elect their legislators in specific legislative districts determined after every decennial census. The Great Court is unusual from other Urcean provincial legislatures not only due to its vintage but also by its nomenclature; nearly all other provincial legislatures simply use the terminology of "Legislature", "Senate", and "Assembly", giving Halfway a unique signifying tradition. | ||
== Politics == | === Politics === | ||
Halfway generally leans strongly towards Urcea's [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]]. Three of its four seats in the [[Concilium Daoni]] are considered to be "safe" National Pact seats, with only the district encompassing Koureiros usually being held by the [[Solidarity Party (Urcea)|Solidarity Party]] and its predecessors. Accordingly, Halfway is considered to have "solidly leaned" towards the National Pact in every [[Procurator]]ial election of the 21st century, and the Province hasn't elected a non-Pact Governor since the [[1970]]s. In the [[2030 Urcean elections]], National Pact Procuratorial candidate [[List_of_Urcean_officials#Salderio,_Conner_Scipio|Conner Scipio Salderio]] won 58% of the vote to incumbent Solidarity Procurator [[Livio Iarnán]]'s 40%. Similarly, both houses of the Great Court have long-running Pact majorities; after the 2030 election, the Pact held 54 of 82 Principal Assembly and 12 of 18 High Magistrate seats. Nearly all non-Pact support on the island comes from Koureiros and its environs, including the vast majority of all non-Pact provincial legislators. | |||
== Sports == | == Sports == | ||