Prime Minister of Esthursia
| Prime Minister of Royal Union of Grand Esthursia | |
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 Seal of the Parliament of the Royal Union of Grand Esthursia | |
| 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.