People's Assembly (Roden)

The People's Assembly ( Assemblada Populara, ) is the  of the Congress of the Republic, Roden's. In contrast to the upper chamber, the Senate, the lower chamber is the more powerful of the two chambers under a system of, as the People's Assembly is the only chamber that can dismiss ministers, pass or amend the budget, or initiate most primary legislation. The Assembly can also override decisions taken by the Senate with an absolute majority vote except in two core areas - constitutional amendments and legislation affecting.

The Constitution lists the powers of the People's Assembly and awards the chamber - like the Senate - regulatory financial autonomy and administrative autonomy from the executive, as a result, the Assembly has instituted its own internal working in the Assembly Stature ( Estatut de Regim Interior de la Assamblada) including the right to elect its, the President of the Assembly, currently Genevieva Noguès.

The People's Assembly is formed by 401 deputies (deputat in Occitan), who are directly elected every five year under a system in forty constituencies based on the provinces.

The most recent legislative elections were held on 5 April 2015.

Parliament building
The People's Assembly seats in the Palatz Piermarini in Brageirac in the Plò Concebeson de Nòstra Dòna, next to the historical Our Lady's Conception Church. The palace was the residence of the wealthy Piermarini family, of Cosentine descent, after its construction in 1558 until the execution of Tomàs Piermarini in 1903 by the colonial authorities in the aftermath of the Tragic Week, as he was deemed one of the main instigators. Afterwards, the building would be expropriated from the family and became a part of the colonial government's properties in Brageirac, remaining unused until 1935.

In 1935, the building would be leased by the colonial government to the Agricultural Credit Bank (BCA), which would occupy the building until 1946. In those ten years, the palace would be restored and reformed to accommodate a banking environment. In 1947, the building was damaged in the invasion of Brageirac by Cosentine troops during the Rodenian War of Independence, but it would be used during the war as a military barrack for Cosentine troops until the city's liberation in 1948. After 1948, when the xx government nationalised major banking institutions, the BCA and its properties passed onto the State, the palace was selected as the home of the National Constituent Assembly. Although the Constituent Assembly as well as the legislatures of the first and second republics and that of the Singlar regime's National Gathering sat in the Piermarini Palace, during the FNR Regime, the legislature sat in Òstal de Najac, currently home to the district of Brageirac governmental offices. After 1988, the palace became the official seat of the of the new Congress of the Republic.

In 1992, and facing great difficulty in housing the deputies' individual offices and commission rooms as well as areas for advisory and administrative staff in the Piermarini Palace, the Assembly requested the Government to acquire two office buildings and to accommodate them to house the deputies' offices as well as as the Parliamentary Research Office together with various other administrative and support services of the Assembly. The offices are located in xx, about 10 minutes on foot from Plò Concebeson de Nòstra Dòna.