House of Legislation

House of Legislation is the name of the legislative body of the Kokomo Islands. The House of Legislation seats 40 members from political parties that have been elected. Elections are held every four years ( inbetween each judicial elections ). The House of Legislation has been critisized for being mostly undemocratic because of the "pre-fixed" seats for the ruling authoritarian party, NRP.

Seats
Because of the constitution, the NRP holds 20 seats automatically in the House of Legislation, making decisions done by the NRP very hard to condemn unless all parties except the NRP agree to cooperate on fighting a NRP proposal. This has only happend once, when the NRP wanted to propose a ban on foreign tourist companies in 1975. When a proposal is met with a 20 seat resistance, it gets automatically declined in the House of Legislation.

Law proposals
Any political member of the House of Legislation can put forward a law proposal for others to review, which cannot be approved by the executive branch, but has to be accepted by the house. A political party can also propose "acts", but they are all up to the NRP to ratify or not. A law proposal to change the constitutional seats for the NRP has been proposed 24 times by different members of several parties, but has always been declined. NRP-member Bill Hyman even responded to the 23rd time by saying "Why do you even try?".