Filzmaier Analyzes – What Federal Presidents Can (Can’t) Do

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In four weeks we will choose the Federal President. The candidates are fixed. A woman is not an option. Most of Alexander Van der Bellen’s challengers want to be strong men. Does it help us if a president stretches the limits of his powers?

1. The Federal President appoints the Chancellor and at his suggestion the minister. Formally, he can make any Austrian citizen who has reached the age of majority and who has not been sentenced to a longer prison term a member of the government. But what if a president theoretically only wants extremists, idiots, or hallodris of his sentiment in government? This government is immediately dismissed with a vote of no confidence by the members of the National Council. So no presidential candidate should have fantasies of power.

Source: Krone

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