Cabinet of Ministers ( Ministru kabinets ) - Government of the Republic of Latvia. According to article 58 of the Satversme, all public administration institutions are subordinate to him. The Cabinet of Ministers starts to fulfill its duties after the Sejm has expressed its trust to it. Separate ministers and state ministers, whom the President of Ministers appoints later, need a special decision of the Seimas on confidence.
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If the Seimas expresses no confidence in the President of Ministers, the entire Cabinet must resign. If distrust is expressed to an individual minister, he must resign, and the Prime Minister must invite another person to replace him. The Sejm expresses no confidence in the Cabinet of Ministers by adopting an appropriate decision or by rejecting the draft annual state budget submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers [1] .
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History of Latvian Governments
- 1918 - 1940 - Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Lithuania (in 1919-1920 there was an alternative Soviet government of the SSRL, in 1919 also an alternative pro-German government of the Republic of Lithuania)
- 1940 - 1946 - Council of People's Commissars of the Latvian SSR
- 1946 - 1990 - Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR
- 1990 - 1993 - Council of Ministers of the Republic of Lithuania
- since 1993, the Cabinet of Ministers has been restored.
Composition
Since 1993, all cabinet ministers of Latvia included the president of ministers (the head of the government) and the ministers themselves - the political leaders of the ministries (the administrative heads of the ministries - officials who do not lose their posts when changing governments - are the state secretaries of the ministries).
Some rooms also included:
- Comrades of the President of Ministers (Deputy Prime Ministers)
- ministers on special assignments (they didn’t report to ministers and did not head ministries, but had secretariats - there were no public administration institutions under the secretariats, and their administrative leaders were not state secretaries, but heads of ministerial secretariats)
- state ministers (subordinate to any minister)
The Cabinet of Ministers makes decisions by a majority vote of the members of the Cabinet of Ministers present at the meeting, and also has the right to make decisions if more than half of the members of the Cabinet of Ministers participate in the meeting. As of January 2011, the cabinet includes the president of ministers and 13 ministers: welfare, internal affairs, health, agriculture, foreign affairs, culture, science and education, defense, environmental protection and regional development, transport, finance, economics, justice.
Substitution Procedure
In the absence of the President of the Ministers, or if he cannot fulfill his official duties for other reasons, he shall be replaced and led by meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers by the member of the Cabinet of Ministers whom the President of Ministers appointed as his deputy. The President of the State and the Chairman of the Saeima must be notified about this. In the absence of a comrade of the President of Ministers or a minister or if he cannot fulfill his official duties for other reasons, he will be replaced by a member of the Cabinet of Ministers appointed by the President of Ministers as a deputy in this place.
Functions and powers of the Cabinet of Ministers
All government agencies are subordinate to the President of Ministers. The Cabinet of Ministers has the right to propose laws, the right to appoint or approve a significant part of civil service officials. The Cabinet of Ministers discusses or makes decisions on all matters within its competence in accordance with the Satversme (Constitution) and laws. The Cabinet of Ministers may publish normative acts - rules - in the following cases:
- if the law gives the Cabinet special powers;
- to approve an international treaty or its draft, denounce or suspend the operation of the international treaty, unless otherwise provided for by the Constitution or law;
- if necessary for the application of EU legal acts and the relevant issue is not regulated by law. [2]
Until 2007, the Cabinet of Ministers could also issue rules in the manner prescribed by Article 81 of the Constitution, that is, between sessions of the Seimas, in case of urgent need [3] . Until 2008, the Cabinet of Ministers could issue rules also if the relevant issue was not settled by law [4] .
Rules approved by the Cabinet of Ministers cannot conflict with the Constitution and laws. The rules should contain a reference on the basis of which law they are published.
The Cabinet of Ministers and a separate minister may issue instructions binding on the institutions subordinate to them:
- if the law or regulations give special powers to this to the Cabinet of Ministers or to an individual minister;
- if the relevant issue is not regulated by law or regulations.
The President of Ministers, the comrade of the President of Ministers and ministers have the right to issue orders in cases established by laws and regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers. An order is an administrative act of an individual nature, which applies to individual state institutions and officials.
Ministers of the current government [5]
- Prime Minister - Krishjanis Karins , New Unity
- Minister of Welfare - Ramon Petravić, KPV. LV
- Minister of Defense - Artis Pabriks , For Development / For!
- Minister of Finance - Janis Reirs , New Unity
- Minister of Economics - Ralph Nemiro , KPV LV
- Minister of the Interior - Sandis Girgens , KPV LV
- Minister of Health - Ilze Vinkele, For Development / For!
- Minister of Agriculture - Caspars Gerhards , National Association
- Foreign Minister - Edgars Rinkevics , New Unity
- Minister of Culture - Dace Melbard , National Association
- Minister of Science and Education - Ilga Shuplinsk, New Conservative Party
- Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development - Juris Puce, For Development / For!
- Minister of Communications - Talis Linkites , New Conservative Party
- Minister of Justice - Janis Bordans , New Conservative Party
Notes
- ↑ Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment September 22, 2009. Archived December 13, 2009.
- ↑ Law on the Cabinet of Ministers - Art. 31 (Latvian)
- ↑ Amendment to the Constitution of May 3, 2007 (Latvian)
- ↑ The Law on the Organization of the Cabinet of Ministers as amended in 2004-2008. (Latvian.)
- ↑ Government approved - Unity loser returned to power . bb.lv. Date of treatment June 20, 2019.