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Wulffren brøsen
	File:50brbanknote.png Obverse of a 2014 series 50Br note
Unit
Plural	brøsor
Symbol	Br‎
Nickname	brøky
Denominations
Subunit
1⁄100	øre
Symbol
øre	ø
Banknotes	50Br, 100Br, 200Br
Rarely used	500Br
Coins	50ø, 1Br, 2Br, 5Br, 10Br, 20Br
Demographics
Date of introduction	1922
User(s)	Template:Country data Wulffmark
Issuance
Central bank	Wulffmarks Sturbank
Website	sturbank.wk
Valuation
Inflation	1.89% (2018)
Pegged with	Aininian louré (ANL); Ł1 = 7.23Br

The Honourable
Wulffmark/Sandbox
The Honourable Wulffmark/Sandbox
First Minister of Wulffmark
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 July 2015
President	Johan Svivold; Jens Hecksher
Preceded by	Jens Jaalainen
Personal details
Born	30 December 1960 (age 63); Brunemouth, Wulffmark
Nationality	Wulffren
Political party	Union
Alma mater	Brunemouth University

First Minister of Wulffmark
First Minister of Wulffmark
Wulffmarks Fursteminister
	File:WullfmarkFMLogo Logo
	File:WulffmarkOfficialFlag.png Flag of the Government of Wulffmark
	File:MagdaAnderssen.pngIncumbent; Magda Anderssen; since 7 July 2015
	First Minister's Department
Style	Excellency (diplomacy)
Type	Indirectly elected
Status	Head of Government
Abbreviation	FM
Member of	Cabinet
Reports to	President, Sturting
Residence	Karstersvej 2
Seat	Karstersvej 4-5
Nominator	Speaker of the Sturting
Appointer	President of Wulffmark; Following Sturting approval
Term length	No fixed term; May remain in office with plurality support in the Sturting
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Wulffmark
Precursor	Chancellor of Wulffmark
Inaugural holder	Olof Luttvik
Formation	1 September 1938
Unofficial names	Prime Minister (pre-1995)
Deputy	Second Minister
Salary	1,200,000Br per annum
Website	firstminister.wk

Revision as of 17:23, 22 May 2021

FM

The First Minister (FM) (Wulffren: Wulffmarks Fursteminister) is the executive leader of Wulffmark. The office was created in 1945 by the Republic constitution as a de jure head of government, which had previously been an informal role granted at the pleasure of the Monarch. It superseded the Chancellor as a new republican institution without royalist connotations.

The First Minister must be a member of the Sturting (SD) and is nominated by the Speaker after an election or vacancy, and appointed by the President upon plurality support. Terms are unfixed and holders may serve as long as they recieve such approval; otherwise they may be removed with a no-confidence vote. Budgets are also viewed as equivalent votes.

The incumbent First Minister is Magda Anderssen, who has been in office since 9 July 2015. Her second term began on 11 July 2019 following the 2019 general election.

Name

First Minister is the direct translation of the Wulffren Fursteminister. Before the official English name was adopted in 1995, English language media commonly referred to it as Prime Minister.

History

Under the Kingdom the office of Chancellor had evolved as the de facto head of government, having once been the chair of the Royal Council and typically granted to personal favourites. In the wake of anti-royalist sentiment afterr Wulffmark's defeat in the Great War, the Republican constitution created a new analogous office independent from the presidency. The inagural First Minister, Olof Luttvik, took office on 1 September 1938.

Olof Luttvik

The office has more recently achieved a more presidential public image and status instead of the originally intended primus inter pares. Erik Eikholm pioneered personalised election campaigns, and his governing approach involved an effectively subordinate Cabinet. Some political commentators have written that single-party governments have been more presidential, but multi-party examples have behaved more akin to traditional cabinet government.

Appointment and removal process

Upon the election of a new Sturting or vacancy, the Speaker must nominate a candidate after consulting with major party leaders. In practice, this usually means the leader of the largest party of the largest bloc. If the nominee recieves a relative majority, they must take the oath of office administered by the President to take office. Failure to complete this process allows the Speaker to propose a snap election, although this scenario has yet to occur.

A First Minister may be removed through a no-confidence vote. Under current Sturting rules, 35% of SDs must petition the Speaker to table a confidence vote. If the incumbent does not recieve a relative majority, the office is vacated pending the positive nomination of a successor. To deter trivial usage of this process, another no-confidence vote cannot occur for at least three months.

Requirements

The First Minister must be an incumbent member of the Sturting. This in turn requires a mininum age of 21 years old, full Wulffren citizenship, and a mininmum one year of permanent residency. An incumbet losing their seat from either electoral defeat or expulsion would effectively vacate the office, although either scenario has yet to occur.

Succession

The Second Minister of Wulffmark directly follows the First Minister in order of precedence and frequently deputises in their absence, but the order of succession is entirely unfixed. Upon an immediate vacancy, the President may designate any Cabinet-rank minister as Acting First Minister. This status allows the temporary assumption of the powers and duties of the office without Sturting approval- the only individual to have recieved this was Kjell Willsrud in 1956 after the death of Olof Luttvik. However recent First Ministers have issued preferred succession lists which the President is expected to honour.

Powers and duties

As head of government, the First Minister leads the executive branch of the Government of Wulffmark and its leading politican. Its largest powers are appointing Cabinet ministers and leading government in the Sturting. However it is less powerful than equivalent posts as Sturting approval is required for most prerogatives and other agency appointments. The party-list proportional representation electoral system and the resulting fragmented 'Block' party system also acts as a de facto check on unilateral power by making single-party majority governments very rare.

Seat and official residences

Karstersvej complex, 2012

The First Minister has exclusive use of the Karstersvej complex next to the Karster Canal in central Brokkemouth, consisting of several interconnected buildings. 1 and 2 are residential quarters, 3 and 4 are offices, and 5 is a multi-purpose venue. Presently, 2 is the official residency whilst 4 houses most offices. The First Minister is also entitled to a secondary Brorkeemouth residence at 13 Videgat, which was used during the most recent refurbishment of 1/2 Karstersvej from 2011-2014.

The First Minister also has a summer country residence at the Friederhus estate in Blaakelund County.

List of First Ministers

There are currently four living former First Ministers, the oldest being Maria Dalkebrant (born 1939; served 1991-1997). The most recent to die was Erik Eikholm (1928-2018, served 1983-1991) on 31 January 2018. They are, in order of service:

Maria Dalkebrant
(1991-1997)
born 1939 (age 85)
Ingvar Hammervik
(1997-2003, 2007-2010)
born 1948 (age 76)
Erik Dalholm
(2003-2007)
born 1949 (age 75)
Jens Jaalainen
(2010-2015)
born 1960 (age 64)

Anderssen

Wulffren brøsen

The brøsen (symbol Br, plural brøsor) is the national currency of Wulffmark. Introduced in 1922 to replace the former Wulffren krone, it is formally divided into 100 øre, although only 50ø coins are currently issued. It has been pegged to the Aininian louré at a central rate of 7.23Br since 1988.

Name

Originating from the word brøns (bronze), the name was historically colloquial for the lowest denominated bronze specie of the medieval Wulffren krone and its subunits. Although higher denominations were made from silver, gold and rarely platinum, only the bronze coins were typically seen by commoners making it the most publicly-recognised coin. Use of bronze spiece had ended by the late 17th century when the coins had been heavily debased with copper and other metals, although the phrase remained in common use for low denomination coins, which had retained the brown colouring. In the 18th century, the name was revived for small value deposit certificates.

The official name øre is derived from aurum, the latin for gold, although only early øre coins were minted from that.