Government of Austria
Bundesregierung der Republik Österreich
Overview
Established	31 October 1918 (106 years ago) (1918-10-31)
Country	Austria
Leader	Chancellor
Appointed by	President
Ministries	15
Headquarters	Chancellery
Website	www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at

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TheGovernment of Austria (German:Bundesregierung der Republik Österreich) is theexecutivecabinet of theRepublic of Austria. It consists of thechancellor, who is thehead of government, thevice chancellor and theministers.

Since the 1929 reform of theAustrian Constitution, all members of the Federal Government are appointed by the Austrian Federal President.^[1] As the Federal Government must maintain theconfidence ofparliament, the President must generally abide by the will of that body in his or her appointments. In practice, the leader of the strongest political party, who ran as a "chancellor candidate" in aparliamentary election, is usually asked to become Federal Chancellor, though there have been some exceptions. Ministers are proposed for nomination by the Chancellor, though the President is permitted to withhold his or her approval. Likewise, the President may dismiss the Chancellor and/or the whole government at any time. If this occurs, a new government must then be formed by the parties that control parliament.

The government is convened for frequently scheduled meetings. When formally convened as such, the government is termed theCouncil of Ministers (German:Ministerrat), which is equivalent to the word "cabinet". The Chancellor presides over cabinet meetings asfirst among equals without decisional authority, regardless of his right of proposal concerning the appointment of the government's members by the President. The cabinet adopts resolutions in the presence of at least half of its members and, according to the ruling of the Austrian Constitutional Court, unanimously – in particular the introduction of bills to the National Council. Each federal minister is also responsible for his or her own ministry, and may be supported by one or morestate secretaries, who also participate in the cabinet's meetings. State secretaries are not considered members of the government, and have no right to vote during cabinet meetings.

There are currently twelve Federal Ministries that all make up the Austrian cabinet.^[2]

• Federal Chancellery
• Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport
• Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Regions and Water Management
• Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology
• Federal Ministry of Defence
• Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
• Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs
• Federal Ministry of Finance
• Federal Ministry of the Interior
• Federal Ministry of Justice
• Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy
• Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

After the dissolution of theAustro-Hungarian Monarchy, on 30 October 1918 the provisional national assembly ofGerman Austria elected a State Council (Staatsrat) executive, which itself appointed a state government with the Social Democratic politicianKarl Renner as head of the State Chancellery. The Renner ministry was composed of representatives of the three main political parties—Social Democrats, theChristian Social Party (CS) andGerman Nationalists (Greater Germans)—according to theProporz doctrine. As acting executive body it remained in office until theConstitutional Assembly of theAustrian First Republic on 15 March 1919 elected Renner's second cabinet, a coalition government of Social Democratic and Christian Social ministers.

State Chancellor Renner had signed theTreaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, whereafter his cabinet retired en bloc. Re-elected by the Constitutional Assembly on 17 October 1919, his third cabinet was finally overturned with the break-up of the SPÖ-CS coalition on 7 July 1920. Renner was succeeded by the Christian Social politicianMichael Mayr, who at the commencement of the Austria Constitution on 10 November 1920 became first Federal Chancellor of Austria. Mayr and his successors proceeded with the support of the Christian Social Party and the Greater German nationalists, while the Social Democrats remained in opposition.

From 5 March 1933 onwards, the Christian Social chancellorEngelbert Dollfuß continued to rule by suppressing the National Council parliament. In the course of theAustrian Civil War he brought down the opposition, and on 1 May 1934 implemented the authoritarianFederal State of Austria. All political parties were banned, except for theFatherland's Front supporting Dollfuß'Austrofascist government. The Federal Government ceased at theAnschluss (the incorporation of Austria intoNazi Germany) on 13 March 1938.

On 27 April 1945 a provisional Austriannational unity government, again under State Chancellor Karl Renner, declared theAnschluss null and void. It prepared theelections to the Austrian National Council held on 25 November. On 20 December 1945, the Austrian Constitution was officially re-enacted, with ÖVP founderLeopold Figl forming the first post-war Federal Government.

List of cabinets since 1945:

• Austrian Federal Government

• Government of Austria
• National cabinets
• Politics of Austria
• European governments

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