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Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie

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Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie

Seal of the Cortes Federales
Incumbent
Orocobix Magüana
since 12.I.1760 AN
Style The Speaker
Seat Legislative Palace, Cárdenas
Appointer Federal Assembly, by election
under the presidency of H.M. the King or the King's designate
Term length The life of the legislature; removable by a motion of no confidence once in a session year
Constituting instrument Proclamation of Punta Santiago, Art. 39(12); Standing Orders of the Federal Assembly
Formation 1693 AN
First holder Consuelo Moscoso

The Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie (Alexandrian: Président de l'Assemblée fédérale; Martino: Presidente de la Asamblea Federal; Wechua: Asamblea Federalpa Umalliqnin) is the presiding officer of the Federal Assembly, the directly elected house of the Cortes Federales, the bicameral legislature of the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie. The Speaker is the sole presiding officer of the Assembly, chairs its sittings and applies its Standing Orders, and by convention is wholly impartial, renouncing party affiliation on taking the chair. The office is designated by Article 39(12) of the Proclamation of Punta Santiago, which provides that the Speaker presides over the Assembly and the Lord President over the Chamber of Peers.

The first Speaker was Consuelo Moscoso, elected by the 1st Cortes Federales in 1693 AN. Orocobix Magüana, elected Speaker by the 14th Cortes Federales on 12.I.1760 AN, is the first Wakara to hold an office previously held by Speakers from several of the Federation's constituent communities.

List of Speakers

Speaker Term Cortes Party of origin Home Region Community Notes
Consuelo Moscoso 1693 AN-1698 AN 1st Non-partisan Alduria Alduria Alexandrian First Speaker of the Federal Assembly. A non-partisan former Chief Elections Officer for the Region of Alduria, she was not herself a member of the Assembly when elected.
Waskar Condori 1698 AN-1703 AN 2nd Independent Wechua Wechua Nation Wechua The first Speaker drawn from the Wechua Nation, a founding member of the Federation.
George Henderson 1703 AN-1713 AN 3rd and 4th Independent Isles of Caputia Isles of Caputia Caputian Re-elected by the 4th Cortes Federales.
Marisa Demeo 1713 AN-1723 AN 5th and 6th Independent Alduria Alduria Alexandrian Presided over two consecutive legislatures.
Pilay Huayna 1723 AN-1729 AN 7th Independent Wechua Wechua Nation Wechua Presided during the ministry of Premier Paolo Antonio Aguilar.
Tomás Reguera 1729 AN-1734 AN 8th Independent Santander Santander Martino Presided during the Federal Consensus Party government of Premier Marissa Santini.
Marisa Demeo 1734 AN-1744 AN 9th and 10th Independent Alduria Alduria Alexandrian Returned to the chair after a decade; re-elected on 3.II.1740 AN with cross-partisan support.
Ignacio Pérez de San Quintín 1744 AN-1749 AN 11th Federal Humanist Party Boriquén Boriquén Martino The first Speaker to come from an organized parliamentary party. A civil engineer and deputy for Boriquén, he had served as Secretary of Civil Works and Transportation in the government of Premier Juan Pablo Jimenez until a 1744 AN cabinet reshuffle, after which he was elected to the chair.
Carolina Mendez 1749 AN-1759 AN 12th and 13th Federal Humanist Party Alduria Alduria Alexandrian Re-elected by the 13th Cortes Federales with 386 votes to 351 over Sofia Estrada.
Orocobix Magüana 1760 AN-present 14th Wakara People's Party Boriquén Boriquén Wakara Elected 12.I.1760 AN by 480 votes to 321 over Alexander Melas; the first Wakara to hold the office.

Selection and tenure

Under Order 2 of the Standing Orders, the Speaker is elected by the Federal Assembly on the first day of its sitting, in proceedings presided over by the King or a royal designate. On taking the chair the Speaker renounces any affiliation with a parliamentary party or extra-parliamentary body and is thereafter required to be wholly impartial in the conduct of the house. A Speaker who belonged to a parliamentary party before election accordingly sets that affiliation aside on taking the chair, so that the party recorded for each holder in the list above is the party from which the Speaker came rather than one held while presiding. The office is held for the life of the legislature, but the Speaker may be removed by a motion of no confidence, proposed by any two Deputies and carried by a majority of the chamber, which may be moved only once in a session year.

The Standing Orders do not require the Speaker to be a Deputy. The office is filled by election of the Assembly but is not restricted to its members: the first Speaker, Consuelo Moscoso, was a former regional elections officer who was not a member of the Assembly when elected.

The Assembly maintains no standing office of Deputy Speaker. In the Speaker's absence the Speaker may name a member of the Assembly to preside over a sitting, but such presiding designees hold no continuing office, and no collective bureau presides in the Speaker's place.

Role and powers

The Speaker chairs the sittings of the Federal Assembly, calls members to speak, puts questions to the vote, and rules on points of order under the Standing Orders. The Speaker enforces order and the use of parliamentary language, and may require a member to apologize for or retract an unparliamentary remark, name a member who defies the chair, and suspend that member from the service of the Assembly for up to twenty-four hours. Order within the chamber and its precincts is kept by the Lord Protector of the Cortes Federales, who commands the Cortes Federales Police; where additional security is required the Speaker may request that the Government dispatch officers from other agencies, with the Lord Protector's consent.

Beyond the chamber, the Speaker countersigns the King's appointment of the President of the Government, who then seeks the confidence of the Assembly. The Speaker sits ex officio on the Cortes Police Board, alongside the Lord Protector, the Lord President of the Chamber of Peers, and the Architect of the Cortes Federales. The permanent staff and departments of the house serve under the Clerk of the Federal Assembly, who acts under the direction of the Speaker.

At the Opening of the Cortes Federales, the Speaker presides from the dais of the Federal Assembly, before which the Mace of State is laid to bring the chamber formally into session; the ceremony is prepared by the Speaker together with the Lord President of the Chamber of Peers.

History

The speakership dates from the 1st Cortes Federales of 1693 AN, the first elected legislature of the Federation established by the Proclamation of Punta Santiago in 1685 AN. Its early holders were non-partisan or independent figures rather than party nominees, a pattern that set the impartial character of the office: Consuelo Moscoso, the first Speaker, had served as a regional elections officer, and the independent Speakers who followed, among them Marisa Demeo, who held the chair across four legislatures, were chosen for their standing rather than their party.

From the 11th Cortes Federales the chair came to be filled by members of organized parliamentary parties, beginning with Ignacio Pérez de San Quintín of the Federal Humanist Party, though the convention that the Speaker renounces party on taking office was preserved. Carolina Mendez, who presided over the 12th and 13th legislatures, was the last Speaker before the 14th Cortes Federales.

The office has been held by Speakers of Alexandrian, Caputian, Wechua, and Martino background. Orocobix Magüana, elected Speaker by the 14th Cortes Federales and a deputy of the Wakara People's Party for Boriquén, became the first Wakara to hold the office. In Wakara tradition the people's own regional assembly, the Areyto Legislativo de Boriquén, is presided over by a Taino, or speaker, an office held by Guarionex II, Prince of Boriquén.

See also

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