Prime Minister of Esthursia

Prime Minister of Union of Grand Esthursia
Seal of the Parliament of the Union of Great Esthursia
Incumbent Harold Osborne since 30 January, 2015
Style	Prime Minister The Right Honourable
Member of	Cabinet of Esthursia
Reports to	King of the Union of Esthursia and to the Esthursian parliamentary houses
Residence	192 Llywellyn's Street
Seat	Brantley North 7
Nominator	House of Barons
Appointer	King of the Union of Esthursia
Term length	Four years Indefinite until the Prime Minister no longer commands the confidence of the House of Barons
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Esthursia
Formation	1388
First holder	Oswynht Rickard
Deputy	Deputy Prime Minister of Esthursia
Salary	Ꜹ104,700/year (includes parliamentary salary of Ꜹ66,050)
Website	www.gov.es

The prime minister is the head of government in the Union of Esthursia. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As prime ministers are constitutionally obliged to command the confidence of the House of Barons, they must be Barons themselves.

The office of prime minister was at first conventional rather than constitutional, and merely by the seemingly most powerful democratically elected member of the Members - later the Barons when the Barony democratised in 1934 - until the Constitution wrote into law the position of prime minister in 1957; this individual is typically the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.

The current Prime Minister is Harold Osborne, who took office following the resignation of John Largan effective on the 30th of January, 2015. A vote of no confidence launched on the Prime Minister in March 2015 failed and as such, Osborne has remained in this position as of February 7, 2022. Residency of 192 Llywellyn's Street and position as the First Secretary of the Cabinet are accorded to prime ministers by virtue of their position by the Constitution. Prime Ministers sometimes also hold the position of Secretary for the Union, although this has not been the case since Tharbjorn Einarsson lost the January 2011 general election.

History

The position of Prime Minister has existed since 1388 following the first "democratic" election in Osynstry, when Oswynht Rickard became the designated figure who sought Edgar II's approval for a set of laws that his group of Members had voted through. Esthursia adopted this position by convention when it united in 1568, thanks to the dominance of Osynstry within this Union. The position of Prime Minister was included in the constitution and therefore became a default position for the leading figure of the House of Barons to lead. The Prime Minister was to be primus inter pares, or the first among equals, in the cabinet and the Barons. In the 14th century, from the passage of the Democracy Act 1303, democratically elected representatives only had the power to pass tax laws - however upon the Crisis of 1695, this was used as a political weapon, leading to the eventual convention (later included in some depth in the Constitution) that a monarch may not overturn an Act of Berworth.

List of Prime Ministers

List of prime ministers of Esthursia