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| last_election1 = [[2035 Lucrecian Legislative election|18 March 2035]] | | last_election1 = [[2035 Lucrecian Legislative election|18 March 2035]] | ||
| last_election2 = [[2032 Lucrecian Centuriate election|13 March 2032]] | | last_election2 = [[2032 Lucrecian Centuriate election|13 March 2032]] | ||
| meeting_place = National Assembly Building<br />[[ | | meeting_place = National Assembly Building<br />[[Emérida del Mar]], [[Lucrecia]] | ||
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The sitting for the two lower houses always begins in March, with the Centuriate election being held on 13 March and the legislative election being held on 18 March. Members of these houses have no set term limit, although it is customary for members to retire at the age of 80 to make way for younger aspiring politicians, often a {{wp|protégé}} of the outgoing member. Presently, there are 1050 members of the General Assemblies, with each legislative house being given as follows: 500 [[Senator of Lucrecia|senators]], 150 [[Centurian of Lucrecia|centurions]], 200 [[Tributary of Lucrecia|tributaries]], and 200 [[Popular Representative of Lucrecia|popular representatives]]. This makes the General Assemblies not only one of the few legislatures in the world to have more upper house members than lower house members, but also one of the largest legislatures by total amount of members. | The sitting for the two lower houses always begins in March, with the Centuriate election being held on 13 March and the legislative election being held on 18 March. Members of these houses have no set term limit, although it is customary for members to retire at the age of 80 to make way for younger aspiring politicians, often a {{wp|protégé}} of the outgoing member. Presently, there are 1050 members of the General Assemblies, with each legislative house being given as follows: 500 [[Senator of Lucrecia|senators]], 150 [[Centurian of Lucrecia|centurions]], 200 [[Tributary of Lucrecia|tributaries]], and 200 [[Popular Representative of Lucrecia|popular representatives]]. This makes the General Assemblies not only one of the few legislatures in the world to have more upper house members than lower house members, but also one of the largest legislatures by total amount of members. | ||
Because the General Assemblies is seen as the continuation of the Emeritan legislature and not a successor, the year of its establishment is said to be the year 178 BC, which was when the [[Emeritan Republic]] was formed. Initially a {{wp|tetracameral}} legislature, the two lowest houses, that being the Tributary and Common Assemblies, were merged in the 1970s to form the Popular Assembly as Lucrecia moved towards decentralisation and linguistic segregation which necessitated a move away from the traditional [[Caphiria|Caphiric]] Republic-based form of government. It is also because of these changes that the party system presently consists of many small linguistically-segregated parties, which in turn practically requires that coalition governments must be negotiated and formed, although conventionally the two main parties of each ideology that is linguistically segregated often caucus with each other as it is constitutionally impossible for incompatible languages to run in an incompatible community (A Pelaxian-speaking candidate would not be able to run in the [[Isurian Generality]], although an Isurian-speaking candidate would be able to run in the bilingual [[ | Because the General Assemblies is seen as the continuation of the Emeritan legislature and not a successor, the year of its establishment is said to be the year 178 BC, which was when the [[Emeritan Republic]] was formed. Initially a {{wp|tetracameral}} legislature, the two lowest houses, that being the Tributary and Common Assemblies, were merged in the 1970s to form the Popular Assembly as Lucrecia moved towards decentralisation and linguistic segregation which necessitated a move away from the traditional [[Caphiria|Caphiric]] Republic-based form of government. It is also because of these changes that the party system presently consists of many small linguistically-segregated parties, which in turn practically requires that coalition governments must be negotiated and formed, although conventionally the two main parties of each ideology that is linguistically segregated often caucus with each other as it is constitutionally impossible for incompatible languages to run in an incompatible community (A Pelaxian-speaking candidate would not be able to run in the [[Isurian Generality]], although an Isurian-speaking candidate would be able to run in the bilingual [[Emerida-Presidential Canton]]). Case in point, the current composition of the Popular Assembly has made it so that a {{wp|grand coalition}} had to be arranged between the establishment parties so as to prevent the far-right [[Party for an Independent Generality|PXI]] from taking control of the [[Lucrecian Curia|Curia]]. | ||
==Composition== | ==Composition== | ||