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Wissing and Özdemir
Do twin ministers additionally obtain a double wage?
Volker Wissing and Cem Özedmir are taking up ministerial positions along with their earlier ones. Will the twin ministers now additionally get more cash? A constitutional lawyer explains issues.
After Christian Lindner was dismissed as finance minister, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann and Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger additionally resigned from their positions. Since Transport Minister Volker Wissing needs to stay in workplace however has introduced his resignation from the get together, the FDP is not represented within the federal authorities.
The succession was shortly organized: the SPD man and Scholz confidant Jörg Kukies was appointed as the brand new finance minister (you possibly can learn a portrait right here). Wissing will even take over the workplace of Justice Minister, whereas the Green Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir will take over the schooling division. This signifies that there are two twin ministers within the cupboard within the Scholz authorities.
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Will twin ministers Wissing and Özdemir now additionally obtain double salaries?
No, explains Elke Gurlit, professor of constitutional and administrative regulation on the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz stern-Inquiry. The primary rule is that there shouldn’t be two official salaries. According to the Federal Ministers Act, official salaries, native allowances and compensation for service bills are solely paid as soon as for a federal minister, whatever the division.
Did the ministerial positions even need to be stuffed?
The format of the ministries lies inside the organizational energy of the Federal Chancellor, explains Gurlit. In addition to a protection minister, solely a finance minister and a justice minister are constitutionally required. Therefore, the latter positions needed to be stuffed and appointed by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. According to the lawyer, the Ministry of Education may have left Scholz vacant. That was in all probability additionally the rationale why Özdemir von Steinmeier, not like Volker Wissing, didn’t obtain a second certificates of appointment and was additionally not listed with the twin operate on the federal authorities’s cupboard web site on Thursday. He took over the brand new duties on a provisional foundation with no certificates.
Can one individual maintain a number of ministerial positions?
Yes, identical to the division of departments, based on the lawyer, the switch of a number of enterprise areas to 1 individual can also be inside the scope of the Federal Chancellor’s organizational authority. By the best way, the Chancellor himself can even tackle a ministry along with his workplace as head of presidency. Konrad Adenauer, for instance, was additionally Foreign Minister from 1951 to 1955. In September 1982, Helmut Schmidt additionally briefly held the workplace of Foreign Minister along with his Chancellorship. At that point, his authorities additionally fell aside in any case FDP ministers resigned. Two weeks later, Schmidt’s chancellorship ended after a vote of no confidence within the Bundestag.
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