The Cabinet Government
A coalition comprising the spd social democratic party of germany and cdu christian democratic union of germany is in office for the current legislative period 2016 to 2021.
The cabinet government. In germany sweden etc and to whom the cabinet reports. The spd provides the minister president with five ministers while the cdu holds three cabinet posts. The cabinet system of government originated in great britain. Find out more about the individual cabinet members and their respective responsibilities.
Planned legislation orders issued priorities decided for time or spending is decided collectively with the cabinet not the pm deciding policy and the prime minister being primus inter pares first among equalsin practice though full cabinet only decides policy when there are major disagreements on the key issues as a final court of appeal. The second role of cabinet officials is to administer executive branches government agencies or departments. Instead it is usually the head of government usually called prime minister who holds all means of power in their hands eg. The cabinet developed from the privy council in the 17th and early 18th centuries when that body grew too large to debate affairs of state effectively.
The state government consists of the minister president and eight line ministries.