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* 72.5% [[Lucrecians|Lucrecian]] | * 72.5% [[Lucrecians|Lucrecian]] | ||
** 39.8% [[Lucrecio-Isurians|Isurian]] | |||
** 32.7% [[Emeritans|Emeritan]] | ** 32.7% [[Emeritans|Emeritan]] | ||
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==Government and Politics== | ==Government and Politics== | ||
{{main|Politics of Lucrecia|Lucrecian Curia}} | {{main|Politics of Lucrecia|Lucrecian Curia}} | ||
Lucrecia's government is organised under the framework of a semi-aristocratic {{wp|diarchic}} {{wp|directorial republic}} under a {{wp|federalism|federal}} {{wp|semi-presidential|semi-presidential system}}. The [[Consuls of Lucrecia|consuls]] are the {{wp|heads of state}}, with the [[Edile of Lucrecia|edile]] serving as the {{wp|head of government}}. The government of Lucrecia is based on that of the Caphiric Republic, albeit with some rationalisation, federalisation, and democratisation since the Popular Amendments of the 1970s. | |||
===Executive=== | |||
The consuls are elected by the [[Centuriate Assembly]] and serve concurrently for a two-year term and share equal power with each other. In the name of political fairness and balance, as well as to prevent cases of {{wp|Cohabitation (government)|cohabitation}}, the consuls are traditionally members of opposing parties meaning that there is almost always a left-wing consul and a right-wing consul serving together. Of the powers granted to the consuls, this includes the ability to appoint an edile if both are not satisfied with the [[Popular Assembly]]'s choice of edile, the ability to appoint members of the [[Lucrecian Curia|curia]], and the ability to issue ''[[dictars]]'', meaning executive decrees, so long as the ''dictar'' is not in violation of the [[Constitution of Lucrecia|constitution]] or federal law. | |||
The edile is elected by the Popular Assembly and serves for a three-year term. The election of an edile is held in the month of March, and in theory any Lucrecian citizen may run for edile, but in practice the edile is often selected from amongst the ranks of the governing parties. The winning candidate is then sent to the consuls who either approve of the candidate or reject them. In the event of a rejection, or if the Popular Assembly is unable to elect an edile, the consuls may either ask the Popular Assembly to run another election or appoint an edile; the latter case may not be rejected by the Popular Assembly. | |||
The Curia is the main executive organ headed by the edile and chaired by the consuls. The Curia is dually accountable to both the consuls and the legislature, thus meaning that the Curia has to not only command the confidence of the legislature, but also the approval of the consuls. An edile, or even the entire Curia, may be dismissed by the consuls or be removed in a ''vote of no confidence'' by the legislature. | |||
===Legislature=== | |||
The legislature of Lucrecia is the [[General Assemblies]], a {{wp|tricameral}} legislature that is composed of the [[Senatorial House]], the [[Centuriate Assembly]], and the [[Popular Assembly]]. | |||
The Senatorial House is made up of 300 senators, members of the aristocracy appointed by the consuls; senators serve "for good conscience", meaning that a senator serves for life until they either retire, pass away, or are removed. The Senatorial House was historically the most powerful legislature in Lucrecia, but the reforms done since the 1970s have done away with much of its power, delegating much of said powers to the Centuriate and Popular Assemblies, but the Senatorial House does retain quite a few powers, such as the ability to petition the [[Supreme Court of Lucrecia]] to investigate either the consuls or the curia, the ability to prevent bills from passing into law, and being the sole legislative assembly to introduce {{wp|bill (law)|bills}}. | |||
The Centuriate Assembly is made up of 150 centurions who are appointed by the legislatures of the [[Communities, cantons, and linguistic areas of Lucrecia|cantons and linguistic communities]] and serve for five years. The 150 centurions are allocated as follows: 32 are appointed by the legislature of the [[Isurian Community]]; 21 are appointed by the legislature of the [[Isurian Generality]]; 16 are appointed by the Isurian language group of the [[Toledo-Administrative Canton]]; 8 are appointed by the Isurian language group of the [[Merida-Presidential Canton]]; 29 are appointed by the [[Pelaxian Community]]; 20 are appointed by the [[Emeritan Republic]]; 16 are appointed by the Pelaxian language group of the Merida-Presidential Canton; 8 are appointed by the Pelaxian language group of the Toledo-Administrative Canton. It is the sole legislative assembly in charge of electing the consuls, the sole legislative assembly in charge of drawing up information reports, and it serves as the main platform for the discussion of matters pertaining to the cantons and linguistic communities (making it the mediation chamber in the event of federated legislative conflicts of interest). | |||
The Popular Assembly is made up of 200 tributaries who are directly elected under the system of {{wp|open list}} {{wp|proportional representation}} within sixteen constituencies, with an {{wp|electoral threshold}} of 5%, and serve for three years. 109 tributaries are from the Isurian language group, and 91 tributaries are part of the Pelaxian language group. Presently, the Popular Assembly holds the greatest amount of power and has the second-highest precedence in the General Assembly when it comes to "ordinary legislation" (the Senatorial House retains the final say), including the ability to elect the edile, with the winner being subject to approval of the consuls, and, alongside the consuls, holds responsibility for the political control of the Curia. | |||
Despite the Isurian language group holding a majority of the tributaries and centurions, the Lucrecian constitution mandates that both linguistic communities hold equal power in both the Centuriate and Popular Assemblies. Indeed, bills may not necessarily require a majority in both language groups save for bills pertaining to the linguistic communities. | |||
===Judicial=== | |||
===Political culture=== | |||
Even before the Popular Amendments of the 1970s, Lucrecia's political institutions has been noted to be among the most complex in the world. With much of the power held by the Senatorial House being delegated to the Centuriate and Popular Assemblies since the 1970s, it has been the [[Pillarisation in Lucrecia|main cultural communities]] that have held much of the political power in Lucrecia. Indeed, this is even reflected in the composition of the nation's political parties, which have been split both ideologically and linguistically. As such, the four main groups in partisan politics are the Catholic conservatives, the liberals, the socialists, and the nationalists. Of these four groups, only the conservative, liberal, and socialist groups have in place a "federal pact" between their respective linguistically-aligned parties within each group; the nationalists are only united in their wish to openly support {{wp|separatism}}. Of course, there does exist the occasional "unitarian" party which has not split between linguistic lines, often representing {{wp|single-issue politics|single-issue}} matters or wishes to reform and further modernise the current system. | |||
===Federated entities=== | |||
{{main|Communities, cantons, and linguistic areas of Lucrecia}} | |||
Historically, the upper classes of Lucrecia have spoken either [[Emeritan Pelaxian|the Emeritan vernacular of the Pelaxian language]] or [[Emeritan Latin]] while the {{wp|Galician language|Isurian}} language was deemed as being just a "less refined dialect" of Pelaxian, effectively preventing those who could only speak Isurian from reaching the governing classes without having to learn Pelaxian. This, on top of the dominance and power of the Senatorial House, had led to an alliance of both the [[Generality movement]] and reformists who sought to strip the Senatorial House of much of their powers and delegate them to the Centuriate and Popular Assemblies. | |||
These demands were met starting in the 1970s with the introduction of the Popular Amendments, a series of constitutional amendments that not only decoupled much of the senatorial powers in favour of delegating them to the centurions and tributaries, it also reformed Lucrecia into a bilingual federation under a tri-level power structure. The three levels being the federal government, the linguistic communities, and the cantons. Although this should give the federalised Lucrecia five curias and legislatures, there exists the Presidential and Administrative Cantons, effectively two capital regions, which are both under the jurisdiction of both linguistic communities, and both with their own curia and legislature, boosting the amount of curias and legislatures up to seven; these two cantons respectively contain the cities of [[Mérida del Mar]], and [[Toledo dos Prados]], respectively designated as the presidential and administrative capitals of Lucrecias. | |||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||