Politics of Anvard

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 * Constitution
 * President
 * Monarchy
 * Vice President
 * Vice Monarchy
 * Cabinet
 * High Executive Committee
 * Military
 * Congress
 * Judiciary
 * Supreme Court
 * People's Branch
 * New Pacific Order
 * Foreign relations
 * BEESTING
 * Treaty with Bobo
 * Bobogoobo
 * SAPAC
 * STOP
 * STOP Council

The politics of Anvard takes place within the framework of a constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Anvard is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by Her Majesty’s Government, on behalf of and by the consent of the Monarch. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the Parliament of Anvard, the House of Ministers and the House of Peers. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature, the highest national court being the Supreme Court of Anvard.

Anvard is a multi-party system and since the 1920’s, the two largest political parties have been the Conservative Party and the National People’s Party, before the NPP rose in Anvardian politics the Worker’s Party was the other major political party along with the Conservatives. Though coalition and minority governments have been occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament.

The constitution of Anvard is uncodified, being made up of constitutional conventions, statutes and other elements. This system of government, known as the Westminster system, had been adopted after declaring independence from England.

The Crown
The Anvard Monarch, currently Her Majesty Queen Margaret III is the Chief of State of Anvard. Though she takes little direct part in the government, the Crown remains the fount in which ultimate executive power over Government lies. These powers are known as the Royal Prerogative and can be used for a vast amount of things, such as the issue or withdrawal of passports to the dismissal of the Prime Minister or even the Declaration of War. The powers are delegated from the Monarch personally, in the name of the Crown, and can be handed to various ministers, or other Officers of the Crown, and can purposely bypass the consent of Parliament.

The head of Her Majesty’s government; the Prime Minister, also has weekly meeting with the sovereign, where she may express her feelings, war, or advise the Prime Minister in the Governments work.

Executive
Executive power in Anvard is exercised by Sovreign, Queen Margaret III, via Her Majesty's Government.

The Anvard Government
The monarch appoints a Prime Minister as the head of Her Majesty’s Government in Anvard, guided by the strict convention that the Prime Minister should be the member of the House of Ministers most likely to be able to form a Government with the support of that House. In practice, this means that the leader of the political party with an absolute majority of seats in the House of Ministers is chosen to be the Prime Minister. If no party has an absolute majority, the leader of the largest party is given the first opportunity to form a coalition. The Prime Minister selects the other Ministers which make up the Government and act as political heads of the various Government Departments. About eleven of the most senior government ministers make up the Cabinet and approximately twenty five ministers in total comprise the government. In accordance with constitutional convention, all ministers within the government are either Members of Parliament or peers in the House of Peers.

As in some other parliamentary systems of government, the executive is drawn form and is answerable to Parliament – a successful vote of no confidence will force the government either to resign or to seek a parliamentary dissolution and a general election. In practice, members of parliament of all major parties are strictly controlled by the whips who try to ensure they vote according to party policy. If the government has a large majority, then they are very unlikely to lose enough votes to be unable to pass legislation.