The Rise Of Australasia
Chapter 288 - 256: Cabinet Restructuring

After briefly browsing through the pages, Arthur got a general idea.

Australasia's Cabinet has developed to this day, and can basically handle all the work of the government.

Although the functions of each department seem somewhat bloated, the size of Australasia is not that large, so it does not constitute a major problem.

The reason the House of Representatives proposed to increase cabinet seats is, simply put, to plan for themselves.

After all, each additional seat means one more opportunity; the Cabinet Government is the top echelon of the Australasian Government, with cabinet members being below the royal family and above the government.

However, the current elections for the House of Representatives have not yet been held, and the final list of members has not been determined. Is it a bit too hasty to worry about the future cabinet elections now?

Arthur shook his head and looked at another proposal.

The other proposal clearly showed a line of text suggesting the establishment of formal official positions such as Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Minister.

In fact, each department currently has a deputy minister's position. Even the Foreign Affairs Department, which currently has fewer affairs, has a minister and a deputy minister.

However, the position of the deputy minister is a bit awkward. Although it is within the Cabinet Government, they are not part of the Cabinet Government and occupy an ambiguous position.

The only good thing is that they can temporarily take over the minister's position when an accident occurs in a department minister.

But the problem is that there is currently no possibility of war in Australasia, and the age of department ministers is generally around 40 years old.

It is less likely for these young and strong ministers to have accidents than for them to be elected to full positions in the next election.

As for the proposal for a deputy prime minister, Arthur felt it was not bad.

At present, there is no position of deputy prime minister in Australasia because the Cabinet Government usually works under Arthur's decision.

In addition, part of the power of the Prime Minister has been divided among various departments, so there is no need for the position of Deputy Prime Minister.

However, with the growth of Australasia's volume, the political affairs of the department ministers will become more bloated and complicated.

Therefore, it is necessary to establish the position of Deputy Prime Minister in advance to share the possible increase in political affairs and matters in the future.

After all, if Arthur has important matters to visit abroad in the future, having a Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister to hold each other back can also maintain domestic stability.

After all, the Prime Minister is a position elected by the House of Representatives. Although it ultimately requires Arthur's approval and swearing allegiance to Arthur, this cannot guarantee the absolute loyalty of the Prime Minister to Arthur.

Although Arthur, under the premise of holding military power, the Prime Minister basically cannot make any waves, but no one can guarantee that Arthur's next or next generation can still firmly control the government.

A monarch who loses monarch power must add several insurance policies to control the government.

A deputy prime minister directly appointed by the monarch is clearly more capable of ensuring loyalty.

After all, anyone who can be personally appointed by the monarch as the Deputy Prime Minister must be absolutely loyal to the monarch in the eyes of the monarch.

In this case, it is necessary to strengthen the monarch's power a little more in other areas to prevent his own descendants from losing their royal power for various reasons. At least, they must ensure that their own and their family's royal power is not threatened, and at worst, they must become a constitutional country where the monarch has certain powers.

After thinking for a while, Arthur signed his decision on the two proposals and called the royal guard to send them to the Royal Parliament.

On May 30th, the Royal Parliament formally issued the final handling opinions on the two resolutions to the House of Representatives, and handed them over to the Cabinet Government for discussion.

The two resolutions were eventually combined, and the cabinet seats were successfully increased.

However, the increased seats were not elected by the House of Representatives as members had expected, but were directly appointed by Arthur or future monarchs, with a term of four years.

The specific resolutions are as follows: It was decided through consultation between Arthur and the Royal Parliament to reform the Cabinet Government of Australasia.

In addition to the ministers of the eight departments and the prime minister, the reformed cabinet government also includes seven ministers personally appointed by Arthur (Chief Justice, Archbishop, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minister of State, i.e., Deputy Prime Minister, and Royal Affairs Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Defense).

After the reform, the Cabinet Government became the supreme government department of Australasia, and Cabinet Government members no longer served as members of the Royal Parliament.

The Cabinet Government is generally responsible to Arthur and the Royal Parliament, but the House of Representatives also has supervisory power.

If the House of Representatives is dissatisfied with a Cabinet Government official or the entire Cabinet Government, it can submit a resolution to impeach the official or the entire government.

Of course, the final impeachment must be submitted to the Royal Parliament and Arthur's hands unless the approval rate exceeds 75%.

This also means that unless the House of Representatives joins together, it will lose jurisdiction over the Cabinet Government. Only the remaining supervisory authority is severely restricted, which is the peak of Australasian royal power.

In addition, the minister of the cabinet department was officially renamed the Department Minister, and the official title of the Cabinet Prime Minister was changed to Chief Minister.

From this moment on, the Cabinet seats of Australasia will be increased to 16, with Arthur controlling 7 seats and the House of Representatives electing 9 seats.

As compensation for the House of Representatives, Arthur decided to allow the incumbent Prime Minister to appoint a deputy minister for each department, with a term corresponding to that of the Prime Minister.

However, the ministers of each department are still elected by the House of Representatives, which can thoroughly differentiate the positions elected by the House of Representatives from the Cabinet Prime Minister and various department ministers, and block the possibility of these positions uniting together.

After all, the Prime Minister of Government will threaten the power of the department ministers and will also cause the department ministers to have some fear of the Prime Minister.

In the case where the Cabinet Government does not trust each other and is suspicious of each other, they will naturally not unite to pose a threat to royal power.

It is worth mentioning that after this complete cabinet reform, Arthur has firmly grasped the more important positions of Minister of Finance and Minister of Defense.

However, this provision received the lowest response, because even in the previous cabinet, the positions of ministers of finance and defense were firmly held by Arthur and could not be obtained simply through elections.

This cabinet reform has a great impact on the political arena, and it can be said that it subverts the current pattern of Australasia's top politics.

In summary, the reform of the cabinet has greatly strengthened royal power, both in appearance and in practice.

Although compensation was given to the Cabinet Prime Minister with a deputy minister's position in each department, the department ministers control the departments, and it remains to be seen whether the deputy ministers can gain power.

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