Government of Werania

Government of Werania
Central government
Logo of the Weranic government
Overview
Established	1842 (inaugural) 1993 (current constitution)
State	Land of the Weranic Crown
Leader	Chancellor
Appointed by	Kasierin
Main organ	Cabinet
Responsible to	Volkstag
Headquarters	Obermenstraße, Westbrücken

The Government of the Lands of the Weranic Crown (Weranian: Regierung des Landes der Ostischen Krone) exercises executive authority over Werania. It consists of the Chancellor and a cabinet of 16 ministries. Junior ministers are not part of the wider Cabinet. Members of the Cabinet are collectively responsible to the Riechstag and can be removed through a vote of no confidence. The Chancellor officially appoints and can dismiss members of the cabinet.

The current Cabinet was inaugurated on the 28 June 2019 following the assumption to the premiership of Otto von Hößlin. 14 full members and 1 non-voting member from the National Consolidation and 2 full members and 1 non-voting member are from the Democratic Alternative. Another non-voting member is not affiliated with any political party.

Appointment

Cabinet ministers in Werania are appointed by the Chancellor. A majority of the Cabinet must sit in the Volkstag and two-thirds in Parliament as a whole. Since 1993, dual mandates of non-parliamentary positions have been illegal for cabinet members. Cabinet members must themselves be civilians who are full citizens of Werania, over the age of 25 and have not committed a felony.

Members of the cabinet enjoy immunity from legal prosecutions unless the Chancellor and Attorney General agree to open investigations against members. Cabinet members are obliged to resign en masse if the cabinet loses a vote of no confidence and at the end of a parliament's term. During the period in which a cabinet has resigned but a new one has not yet been formed the cabinet becomes a demissionary cabinet which only retains emergency powers.

The cabinet is divided into two positions - voting members who head ministries and vote within internal cabinet meetings and non-voting members who are appointed by the prime minister to attend cabinet meetings but neither head a ministry nor are able to vote on policy matters. Junior ministers are also appointed within ministries to handle more specialised portfolios, but are not considered part of the cabinet requiring prime ministerial permission to attend cabinet meetings and doing so as non-voting members.

Formation

The formation of the cabinet is constitutionally a lengthy affair. Following an election wherein no party gets a majority the monarch is tasked to appoint an informateur who seeks potential coalition configurations by consulting between parties before reporting to the monarch to appoint a formateur (usually the leader of the largest party of a potential coalition) to form a government. The formateur is considered to be the prospective chancellor.

The cabinet is elected alongside the Chancellor by the Volkstag by a simple majority ballot. Once the cabinet is approved by a majority of MP's the monarch then formally approves of the candidacy - if the Monarch rejects the nomination from parliament the Monarch and parliament are given a week to come to a consensus - ultimately however if no consensus is reached the Volkstag's nomination automatically becomes cabinet.

Current composition

Main article: Von Hößlin government

Official cabinet members

	Position	Picture	Name	Party
	Chancellor		Otto von Hößlin	National Consolidation Party
	Vice-Chancellor Minister of Foreign Affairs and Euclean Relations		Käthe Schickdanze	Democratic Alternative
	Minister of Home Affairs		Jörg Bullmann	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Finance		Wolfgang Kanther	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Economic Affairs and Industry		Alexander Oberländer	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Defence		Ulrich Furler	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Justice Minister for Women and Social Mobility		Andrea Däubler	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Social Affairs and Employment		Simas Nekrošius	Democratic Alternative
	Minister of Health Services	File:Sabrine Köstinger.png	Sabrine Köstinger	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Education, Youth and Science		Egon Niebergall	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Transport and Infrastructure		Helmut Schockenhoff	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Regional Governance and Development		Melanie Bätzing-Lichtenthäler	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries		Wilhelm Stahlman	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Energy and the Environment		Martin Stammberger	National Consolidation Party
	Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports		Dietrich von Rosenzweig	National Consolidation Party
	Minister without portfolio		Andreas Scheel	National Consolidation Party

Non-voting members

	Position	Picture	Name	Party
	Government Chief Whip		Norbert Böhmer	National Consolidation Party
	Deputy Government Chief Whip		Eckart Krichbaum	Democratic Alternative
	Attorney General		Volker Bottenbruch	Independent