5th Cortes Federales

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The 5th Cortes Federales is the current meeting of the Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie, the national legislature of Nouvelle Alexandrie, with the membership determined in its lower house primarily by the results of a general election held in 1713 AN. Its upper house is composed of the nobles of the Federation. The Cortes met for the first time since its creation by the Proclamation of Punta Santiago on 13.V.1694 AN. According to the Proclamation of Punta Santiago, the maximum legislative term of the Cortes is 5 AN years from the preceding general election.

Election

See Also: New Alexandrian general election, 1713

The 5th New Alexandrian general election was held from 1.XIV.1713 AN to 3.XIV.1713 AN. At the election, the Federal Humanist Party became the largest party in the lower house, the Federal Assembly, with a majority of 79 seats.

	Political Party	Leader	Candidates	Votes	Elected	Gain/loss	% of votes	% of seats
	Federal Humanist Party	Felipe de Almagro	637	48,196,361	389	▲43	67.0	61.0
	Social Democratic and Liberal Alliance	Julio Delgado	637	18,677,091	150	▼56	26.0	23.5
	Federal Consensus Party	Alfons Dandela	637	2,865,840	21	▼42	4.0	3.2
	People's Liberty Congress	Adriana Lopez-Gautier	637	2,175,808	16	▲13	3.0	2.5
	Independent	N/A	1,212	7,545,971	61	▲42	10.5	9.2
Total			3,760	71,915,100	637	Turnout		44.1%

History

The 1st session of the Cortes Federales began on 4.XVI.1713 AN.

After one round of voting, the Federal Assembly elected Marisa Demeo, an Independent, as Speaker of the Assembly.

The makeup of the 5th session of the Cortes Federales (1713-1718).

Legislation

• Federation Games Organisation Act of 1715
• Chambers of Guilds and Corporations Act, 1715

See Also

• Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie
• Federal Constituent Assembly