Royal Diet of Ruthenia

Royal Diet
Lesser coat of Arms of the Empire
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	House of Magnates House of Representatives
Term limits	No term limits are imposed
History
Founded	10 March 2016 (2016-03-10)
Preceded by	General Assembly of Ruthenia
Leadership
Minister-President of Ruthenia	D. Guilherme da Lomellina e Berenguer, Objectivist Party since appointed by Emperor-King of Karnia-Ruthenia after the General election of 2016
Leader of the House of Representatives	Weslley, Prince of Agram, Moderate Party since General election of 2016
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Motto
God Save the King!
Meeting place
Parliament Building, Persenburg
Website
Official Website

The Royal Diet of Ruthenia is the legislative body of the Kingdom of Ruthenia, a constituent state of the Karno-Ruthenian Empire. It is a bicameral body: the upper house is the House of Magnates and the lower house is the House of Representatives. To become law, bills had to be passed by both houses and then granted royal assent by the King. After having been passed, laws were published.

History

On 19 November 2014, after gaining permission from his father, the now King Oscar of Ruthenia established the Throne of Ruthenia, declaring Ruthenia to be an independent kingdom. The first three months of Ruthenia's existence were plagued by uncertainty and political instability, but King Oscar was able to maintain order and develop the kingdom. A Absolute Monarchy from his beggining, everything has changed with the Constitution of 2015. Ruthenia became a confederate constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government, wherein the King of Ruthenia is the Head of State and the Chancellor is the Head of Government, and the Power of the King was splited among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.

Ruthenia held its first parliamentary election between 06 and 16 May 2016, for the positions of the Leader of the House of Magnates, who is also the President of the Royal Diet and assumes the office of Minister-President of Ruthenia and Leader of the House of Representatives. The post of Minister-President has been used to replace the Chancellor of the Kingdom, as Ruthenia should adapt to the terms of the Karno-Ruthenian Compromise of 2016. Two parties participated in the election: the newly created Objectivist Party and the Moderate Party. The elections did not happen in Karnia because the positions for legislatures were filled by appointment.

The Objectivist Party, a new liberal conservative party founded just a week before the election, elects its two candidates, consolidating the party as the largest in the micronation. Weslley of Agram lost the first election to Guilherme da Lomellina and, applying to the second election, lost again, this time to Yuri de Faria The elected candidates took office on 20 May 2016.

List of Presidents of the Royal Diet

No.	Name	Portrait	Office		Party	Sovereign
I	D. Guilherme da Lomellina e Berenguer		20 May 2016	present	Objectivist Party	Emperor-King Oscar I
			The first Minister-President of the Ruthenia and the first elected head of government in the history of the kingdom by the Objectivist Party. With popular vote, he strengthened Libertian position in the newly founded Empire and became one of the most prominent figures of Karnia-Ruthenia.

References

Preceded by: General Assembly of Ruthenia

Legislature of Karnia-Ruthenia 2016 - present

Succeeded by: Incumbent