Plurinational Legislative Assembly

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The Plurinational Legislative Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional; ALP), formerly known as the National Congress (Spanish: Congreso Nacional), is the legislative branch of the national government of Bolivia. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, and an upper chamber, the Senate. They both meet in La Paz, the seat of government. The vice president of Bolivia acts ex officio as the president of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. The legislature has a total 350 members: 36 senators, 130 deputies, 9 supranational representatives, and their corresponding substitutes. Each of the country's nine departments returns four senators elected by proportional representation (using the D'Hondt method). (From 1985 to 2009, the Senate had 27 seats: three seats per department: two from the party or formula that receives the most votes, with the third senator representing the second-placed party.) Senators are elected from party lists to...

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