Add a new rule, “Parties”:-

Each Honourable Member may belong to a Party; this is tracked as a word in the GNDT in the column “Party”, or “-” if the Honorable Member belongs to no Party. A Party’s Size is equal to the number of Honourable Members who belong to that Party, and a Party is “larger” than another if it has a greater Size.

At any given time, one or more Parties may be “in Power”, as follows:-

• If one Party has a greater Size than all other Parties, and a Size greater than Quorum, then it alone is in Power.
• Otherwise, if two Parties have a greater Size than all other Parties, and their combined Size is greater than Quorum, then both of those Parties is in Power.
• Otherwise, no Party is in Power.

As a weekly action, an Honourable Member may change the Party they belong to to either “Communist”, “Socialist”, “Green”, “Liberal”, “Religious”, “Conservative” or “Extremist”.