Government and Politics of Belacostă
The government and politics of Belacostă take place under a directorial system. Belacostă's constitutional framework is based loosely on that of Fiovă, which is in turn based loosely on that of the former Talossan Republic.
Executive
Executive power is exercised by el Cußeglh Provincial (the Provincial Council), presided over by the Governadeir (Governor), and the Viceroy, the local term for the Cunstaval, the organically-mandated representative of the Crown, who performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the provincial level as the King of Talossa does at the national level. The Provincial Council is a collective executive composed of three Provincial Consuls, who elect from among themselves a Governadeir. The Governadier in turn presides over the Provincial Council as primus inter pares. Elected by the province via the Borda method at each general election, the Provincial Council may delegate any executive or administrative powers to Ministers, who are responsible to both the Provincial Council and the Provincial Assembly.
List of Cunstaváis
| # | Cunstaval | Term |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owen Edwards | unknown |
| 2 | Ieremiac'h Ventrutx | 13 July 2011/XXXII - 23 Feb 2025/XLVI |
| 3 | Glüc da Dhi | 23 Feb 2025/XLVI - present |
List of Governadeirs
| # | Governadeir | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Lüc da Schir, UrB (acting) | 1 Mar - 21 April 2025/XLVI | |
| 1 | Mic'haglh Autófil | 21 April 2025/XLVI - present |
Provincial Council Elections
Elections to the Provincial Council use the Borda method, in which each citizen of the province may cast votes for three choices, in preference order, to sit on the Council. First-choice votes are worth three points; second-choice votes worth two points, and third-choice votes worth a single point. The points received are then totaled, and the three candidates receiving the highest point totals are elected to the Provincial Council for that term. In the event of a tie, candidates so tied are ranked in order of highest first-choice votes, and then in order of highest second-choice votes if necessary.
| December 2025 (62nd Cosă Term) | April 2025 (61st Cosă Term) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Candidate | 1st-choice | 2nd-choice | 3rd-choice | Total Points | # | Candidate | 1st-choice | 2nd-choice | 3rd-choice | Total Points |
| 1 | Lüc da Schir, UrB | 1 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 1 | Lüc da Schir, UrB | 2 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| 2 | Mic'haglh Autófil | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | Iason Taiwos | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | Iason Taiwos | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | Mic'haglh Autófil | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Pôl dal Cräpscaßada | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | Flip Molinar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Leonardo Marques | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | Pôl dal Cräpscaßada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Emeka Iwuagwu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | Erschéveþ da Schir | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| T-7 | Massimiliano Sartorello | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Invalid votes: 3 | |||||
| T-7 | Istefan Perþonest | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| T-9 | Erschéveþ da Schir | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| T-9 | Pol dal Timă Lupulescu | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Invalid votes: 6 | |||||||||||
Legislative
Legislative power is vested in l'Aßemblatx Provincial (the General Assembly). At each general election, each Belacostan citizen may choose to claim one seat in the Provincial Assembly for the term; at the dissolution of the Cosă, the Provincial Assembly is likewise dissolved. As with the Provincial Council, the Governadeir likewise serves as the Provincial Assembly's presiding officer.
List of Provincial Assemblies
Judiciary
Under the Belacostan Unified Statute, the provincial judiciary is structured as a "system of binding, voluntary, and citizen-led arbitration." Citizens who are serving a particular case as the arbitrator are referred to as Arbiters.
List of Arbiters
| # | Arbiter | Cases |
|---|---|---|
| none yet! | ||
Belacostă on the National Level
Each of Talossa's eight provinces is represented in the Senäts by one Senator elected by the citizens of that province. At each general election, three Senators out of the eight total face election following a fixed rotation.
List of Senators
| # | Term | Senator | Cosas Served |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Matthias Muth | 23rd (3rd Clark) - 30th |
| 2 | 2 | Tom Buffone | 31st - 32nd (1st Clark) |
| 3 | Matthias Muth | 32nd (3rd Clark - dissolution) | |
| 3 | 4 | Weston Erni | 33rd |
| 4 | 5 | Xheralt Conâ | 34th |
| 5 | 6 | Quedeir Castiglha | 35th - 36th |
| 6 | 7 | Nicolâ Casálmac'h | 37th - 40th |
| 7 | 8 | Flip Molinar | 41st (1st - 5th Clarks) |
| 8 | 9 | Tímoþi Asmourescu | 41st (6th Clark) - 43rd |
| 9 | 10 | Iason Taiwos | 44th - 45th (4th Clark) |
| 10 | 11 | Tric'hard Carschaleir | 45th (5th Clark) - 46th |
| 11 | 12 | Lüc da Schir | 47th - 54th |
| 12 | 13 | Eiric Börnatfiglheu | 55th - 58th |
| 14 | Iason Taiwos | 59th - present |
Historical Government
Under the 2008 - 2025 Constitution, the province operated using an bicameral legislature, with a prime minister responsible to the same.
Executive
Under the previous provincial constitution, the head of the provincial government was the Maestro, who was elected by the Assembly, the lower house of the provincial legislature as it existed at the time. Twelve different Belacostans held the office of Maestro in the 17-year period in which the position existed.
| # | Term | Maestro | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Matáiwos Vürinalt (LRT) | 8 Mar - 7 Nov 2008 | |
| 2 | 2 | Tímoþi Asmourescu (RUMP) | 7 Nov 2008 - 19 Jul 2011 | |
| 3 | 3 | Simeon Andrieu (PP) | 19 Jul 2011 - 4 Jul 2012 | |
| 4 | Tímoþi Asmourescu (RUMP) | 4 Jul - 1 Oct 2012 | ||
| 4 | 5 | Istefan Perþonest (IND) | 1 Oct 2012 - 21 Apr 2013 | |
| 6 | Tímoþi Asmourescu (RUMP) | 21 Apr - 22 Jul 2013 | ||
| 5 | 7 | Lüc da Schir (MRPT) | 22 Jul 2013 - 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 6 | 8 | Vitxalmour Conductour (NPW) | 22 Oct 2014 - 23 Jun 2015 | |
| 7 | 9 | Iason Taiwos (Lib) | 23 Jun 2015 - 14 Apr 2016 | |
| 8 | 10 | Eiric S. Börnatfiglheu (NPW) | 14 Apr 2016 - 13 Mar 2017 | |
| 9 | 11 | Cresti Françell (IND) | 13 Mar 2017 - 9 Aug 2018 | |
| 12 | Iason Taiwos (NPW) | 9 Aug 2018 - 14 Jun 2019 | ||
| 10 | 13 | Erschéveþ da Schir (ModRad) | 14 Jun 2019 - unknown | |
| 11 | 14 | Eiric S. Börnatfiglheu (NPW) | unknown - 21 Jul 2022 | |
| 12 | 15 | Mic'haglh Autófil (PdR) | 21 Jul 2022 - 26 Oct 2023 | |
| 16 | Lüc da Schir (FreeDem) | 26 Oct 2023 - 28 Feb 2025 | ||
The Maestro was assisted in their duties by the Arvitieir Prima, a position that served as a sort of combined Assembly Speaker, Secretary of State, and Attorney General. Three different Belacostans served four total tenures as Arvitieir Prima in the 12 years of the position's existence: Istefan Perþonest (the first and third AP), Lüc da Schir (the second AP), and Mic'haglh Autófil (the fourth AP and final holder of the office).
Legislature
During this period, the provincial legislature was a bicameral body known as the Legislative Chancellery. The upper house, the Senate, was composed of all provincial citizens who had either ever (a) served as the province's representative in the Senäts, and/or (b) been awarded the Order of Belacostă; anyone falling into both categories was still only eligible for one seat. Additionally, the Maestro was empowered to appoint Senators, so long as appointees did not outnumber Senators who sat by eligibility. While those who sat in the Senate by virtue of eligibility did so for life, appointed Senators were only appointed for the current term of business.
The lower house, the Assembly, was an eleven-seat chamber elected using Hare-Niemeyer proportional representation.
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