Federal Assembly (Switzerland)
The Federal Assembly (, , , ) is Switzerland's federal legislature. It meets in Bern in the Federal Palace.

The Federal Assembly is bicameral, being composed of the 200-seat National Council and the 46-seat Council of States. The houses have identical powers. Members of both houses represent the cantons, but, whereas seats in the National Council are distributed in proportion to population, each canton has two seats in the Council of States, except the six 'half-cantons', which have one seat each. Both are elected in full once every four years, with the last election being held in 2019.

The Federal Assembly possesses the federal government's legislative power, along with the separate constitutional right of citizen's initiative. For a law to pass, it must be passed by both houses. The two houses may come together as a United Federal Assembly in certain circumstances, such as to elect the Federal Council (the head of government and state), the Federal Chancellor, the federal judges or (only in times of great national danger) a general.
Q39
Switzerland
LOC
Q43702
federal
Concept
Q11204
legislature
Concept
Q70
Bern
LOC
Q30911
Federal Palace
LOC
Q189445
bicameral
Concept
Q676078
National Council
MEDIA
Q609037
Council of States
MEDIA
Q23058
cantons
LOC
Q23058
half-canton
LOC
Q42309329
last election
Concept
Q660064
citizen's initiative
Concept
Q684719
United Federal Assembly
MEDIA
Q30917
Federal Council
MEDIA
Q2285706
head of government
Concept
Q48352
state
Concept
Q687810
Federal Chancellor
PER
Q5440519
federal judges
UNK
Q670860
general
PER
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2019
DATE
+46^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
46
NUMBER
country
headquarters location
part of
part of
located in the administrative territorial entity
number of seats
appointed by