Central Committee of State of Liothidia

Central Committee of State Zentralkomitee des Staates
Leadership
Status	De-facto executive of Liothidia, Socialist Workers' Party
First Secretary	Georg von Carstein
Elected by	People's and Worker's Assembly
Seats	XX
Meeting place
Egon Krauss Hall, Staatsbezirk Rahden, Liothidia

The Central Committee of State (Zentralkomitee des Staates, ZKS), usually known as the Central Committee, is a committee consisting of the top leadership of the Socialist Workers' Party and all ministers of state and state agency heads. Historically the Central Committee existed solely as the executive branch of the SWP, however, the 1930s saw an extensive political reform that merged the Central Committee's party duties with that of the state. Today, the Central Committee is solely responsible for governance and party affairs simultaneously.

The Central Committee is headed by the First Secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party, with the First Minister of Liothidia as deputy chair. It's comprised of all state ministers, heads of major party and state agencies and several key party officials, such as the first-secretaries of provincial and municipal branches of the SWP. Collectively, the ZKS forms the de-facto executive of Liothidia, owing to the constitutions' mandate for collective leadership.

Owing to the Central Committee's simultaneous leadership in state and party affairs, many commentators note that it effectively demolishes the lines between party and government, while also constituting one of the most powerful political bodies in the world.

Organisation and membership

The ZKS is formally divided into three constituent parts; State Governance, which includes all ministers of state (cabinet); Party Governance, all major party officials and heads of party offices; Advisory Members, who are nominally high ranking civil servants, military officers and heads of state-owned enterprises. Advisory Members are non-voting and rotate depending upon the topic of discussion.

State Governance Members

	Position	Picture	Name
State Governance Members
	First Secretary		Georg von Carstein
	First Minister		Teresa Fehrenbach
	Minister of Finance		Gerd Müller
	Minister of Internal Affairs		Markus Fischer
	Minister of Foreign Affairs		Marek Cieślak
	Minister of National Defence		Dieter Kessler
	Minister of Justice		Wilhelm Richter
	Minister of State Security		Georg Schwarz
	Minister of Health and Social Services		Helga Stein
	Minister of Education and Vocational Training		Renate Trittin
	Minister of Industry and Labour Affairs		Anja Wagenknecht
	Minister of Energy and Resource Development		Karsten Riexinger
	Minister of Transportation and National Development		Jürgen Klein
	Minister of Agriculture and the Environment		Peter-Freidrich Steiner
	Minister of Housing and Urban Development		Erich Freiherr
	Minister of Local and District Affairs		Karl-Peter Hoffmann
	Minister of Technology and Innovation		Jesper Hougaard
	National and Revolutionary Culture		Anton Enzauer
	Minister for State Information and Media		Sigmar Altmeier
Party Governance
	Vice Secretary for Party Cohesion and Discipline		Andreas Pflüger
	Vice Secretary for Party Policy		Hans Köhler
	Vice Secretary for Women's Rights		Camilla Eibenschütz
	Vice Secretary for Religious Affairs		Larissa Hettinger
	Vice Secretary for Business and Industrial Affairs		Reiner Rulsch
	Vice Secretary for Party Solidarity		Friedrich Beckstein
Advisory Non-Voting