Political parties of Nouvelle Alexandrie

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The political parties of the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie exist in a fragmented federal multi-party system. The New Alexandrian political system is based on each Region of the Federation electing its Deputies to the Federal Assembly through proportional representation. This allows for a multi-party system with numerous parties represented in its bicameral legislature, the Cortes Federales. In the Cortes Federales, there are two chambers: the elected lower House, the Federal Assembly, and the unelected upper House, the Chamber of Peers.

The typical Federal Assembly can include representation for many parties and factions. This is because there is a low election threshold required for a party to win a seat in a Region, which is 2 percent of the vote.

In the first general elections held in Nouvelle Alexandrie in 1693 AN, four political parties were able to clear the threshold and win seats in the Federal Assembly. The current session of the Federal Assembly, however, has seen the representation of parties expand to five parties with a strong contingent of unaligned or independent Deputies, as political parties collapse and reorganize, causing Deputies to pick from the new rising parties or decline to join any of the new parties.

As a result of the shifting political landscape, since 1685 AN, Nouvelle Alexandrie has had only coalition governments or "Governments of National Unity" as they tend to be called. This has resulted in the establishment of coalition agreements that often switch around the leaders and officials in different portfolios, including the top two positions in the Council of State, the Presidency of the Government and the Vice-Presidency of the Government.