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How the Assembly works
Election, execution and removal, in the terms Title V and Title VI set them
Election and execution
How the two hundred seats are filled
Members are elected by open list in the twenty sub-regions, and proportionality is computed across the whole territory. A list's national total decides how many seats it wins, and those seats go to its most voted sub-regional lists, so the composition of the chamber follows the national result and every member is returned by a named district. A list that obtains the votes required for one seat wins that seat.
What happened to the turnout rule
The 2024 text made a sixty per cent turnout a condition of a valid election. On 10 June 2025 turnout was 57.3 per cent, the election was void, and the Republic had no parliament for fourteen weeks.
The validity of an election now depends in no case on the level of participation, and the same holds for referendums.
There are no ministers
Execution belongs to committees of the Assembly, composed in the Assembly's own proportions, so every list represented in the chamber is represented in every committee that is large enough.
No separate election fills any office of execution, and the chairs of the committees form a Bureau that coordinates without commanding.
Recall
The residents of a district may remove the member they elected, on a petition of five per cent and a vote in the district, at any time outside the first year and the last six months of a term. No ground need be stated.
Term and candidacy
The five-year term
The Assembly has a term of five years. The ordinary election falls on 10 June of the fifth year, and the Assembly elected convenes within fifteen days of the proclamation of the result.
The term ends when the succeeding Assembly convenes, and the Assembly cannot extend its own term by any decision of its own.
Postponement is possible only under emergency or armed attack, by two thirds and on a prior finding of the Constitutional Court, for six months at a time and twelve months at the most.
Who may stand
Every list presents its candidates so that no sex or gender exceeds sixty per cent of them, counted both across the whole list and across the positions from which a member is likely to be returned. Voters express preferences within a list.
The order of preference expressed by the voters replaces the order in which the list presented its candidates.