Government of Werania

Government of Werania
Federal government
Logo of the Weranic government
Overview
Established	1842 (inaugural) 1993 (current constitution)
State	Weranian Confederation
Leader	Chancellor
Appointed by	Federal Presidency
Main organ	Cabinet
Responsible to	Bundestag Herrstag • Volkstag
Headquarters	Obermenstraße, Westbrücken

The Weranian Federal Government (Weranian: Ostischer Bundesregierung) exercises executive authority over Werania. It consists of the Chancellor and a cabinet of 16 ministries, known as Federal Ministers (bundesminister). Junior ministers are not part of the wider Cabinet. Members of the Cabinet are collectively responsible to the Bundestag and can be removed through a vote of no confidence in the Volkstag. 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 members are from the National Consolidation whilst 2 members are from the Democratic Alternative. Three individuals who are not members attend cabinet meetings, with one being from the NKP, one from the DA and one not affiliated with a 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 the Bundestag 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 - members who head ministries and vote within internal cabinet meetings and those who are not officially 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 known as ministers of state (staatsminister) 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 regierungsbildner (usually the leader of the largest party of a potential coalition) to form a government. The regierungsbildner 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 legislative deputies the monarch then formally approves of the candidacy - if the Monarch rejects the nomination from the legislature 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 a member of the cabinet.

Current composition

Main article: Von Hößlin government

Official cabinet members

	Position	Member	Member since	Seat	Political party
	Federal Chancellor Bundskanzler	Otto von Hößlin	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Federal Vice-Chancellor Bundesvizekanzler Minister of Foreign Affairs and Euclean Relations Minister für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten und Eucläische Beziehungen	Käthe Schickdanze	28 June 2019	Volkstag	DA
	Minister of the Interior and Community Minister für Inneres und Heimat	Jörg Bullmann	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Finance Minister der Finanzen	Wolfgang Kanther	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Economy and Industry Minister für Wirtschaft und Industrie	Alexander Oberländer	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Defence Minister für Verteidigung	Ulrich Furler	28 June 2019	Herrstag	NKP
	Minister of Justice Minister der Justiz Minister for Women and Social Mobility Ministerin für Frauen und Soziale Mobilität	Andrea Däubler	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Minister für Soziales und Beschäftigung	Simas Nekrošius	28 June 2019	Volkstag	DA
	Minister of Health Services Minister für Gesundheitsdienste	Sabrine Dümmler	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Education, Youth and Science Minister für Bildung, Jugend und Wissenschaft	Egon Niebergall	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Minister für Verkehr und Infrastruktur	Helmut Schockenhoff	28 June 2019	Herrstag	NKP
	Minister of Regional Government and Development Minister für Regionalregierung und Entwicklung	Melanie Bätzing-Lichtenthäler	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries Minister für Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Fischerei	Wilhelm Stahlman	28 June 2019	Herrstag	NKP
	Minister of Energy and the Environment Minister für Energie und Umwelt	Martin Stammberger	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports Minister für Kultur, Tourismus und Sport	Girenas Bujanauskas	28 June 2019	Volkstag	NKP
	Minister of Administrative and Constitutional Reform Minister für Verwaltungs und Verfassungsreform	Andreas Scheel	28 June 2019	Herrstag	NKP

Also attending

	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