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| - The politics of Anvard takes place within the framework of a constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Anvard is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by Her Majesty’s Government, on behalf of and by the consent of the Monarch. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the Parliament of Anvard, the House of Ministers and the House of Peers. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature, the highest national court being the Supreme Court of Anvard. Anvard is a multi-party system and since the 1920’s, the two largest political parties have been the Conservative Party and the National People’s Party, before the NPP rose in Anvardian politics the Worker’s Party was the other major political party along with the Conservatives. Though coalition and minority governments have been occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament. The constitution of Anvard is uncodified, being made up of constitutional conventions, statutes and other elements. This system of government, known as the Westminster system, had been adopted after declaring independence from England.
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