belgium
Belgium
Jaxson Nelson
Jonathan Evans
Based
Michael Sullivan
who cares
she seems based
>As Minister for Immigration in the last Belgian government she was the first politician to make a real dent in the migrant problem, slashing the number of asylum requests by almost half, from 27,000 per year to 15,000.
>She was unmoved by hunger-strikes and sent in the police to end them and to ensure that expulsion orders were carried out.
Carson Wright
who cares
who the fuck is so delusional to make her health minister
Alexander Adams
Kevin Edwards
>slashing the number of asylum requests by almost half, from 27,000 per year to 15,000.
She ate them
>She was unmoved by hunger-strikes
Duh
Chase Perez
>a politician's health is more important than expelling "refugees"
archmed
Noah Brooks
Why was she moved from Immigration to Health? Is this normal in a parliamentary system?
Adam Moore
Well a woman needs her daily calorie intake ya know
Ryder Powell
Skinnier than you, Muhammad.
Jason Sanchez
hey our home secretary is a well known mafioso. he is running the entire fucking police. he used the police literally to muscle out the competition for his mob. compared to that a fat cunt heading healthcare is nothing.
Cameron Myers
for the ministry of health you are not supposed to look like you die of a stroke any moment
Adam Parker
what are you implying?
Jackson Lewis
Parliamentary system means you don't (well, almost never) have one party that has a majority, so you need a coalition. That means that every partner party in the coalition can demand they 'get' a ministerial position. That way that party can push their policy on that particular subject more than the other parties can (though there's still the overarching "government agreement" between all the members of the coalition, sketching out the broad policies). It's a lot of bargaining and negotiating.
Gabriel Harris
Okay, so this woman is just important within her party, not necessarily an expert on either immigration or health?
Elijah Torres
kek
Noah Adams
STFU mussie
you left your wife behind while the kurdish women stayed and fought
Thomas Hughes
I am volga german though
Owen Richardson
Correct. Usually (not always though) the people they appoint to these positions have made that (political) policy their speciality (like a shadow minister). In this case, it helps that she's a doctor.
In addition to negotiating with the other parties for positions of power, you also have to negotiate within your own party for positions (who gets what/is rewarded or pushed aside). As she's fairly popular (due to her immigration policies) and got the party a lot of votes, she got another appointment in this government, this time as minister of health.
Xavier Garcia
Interesting, thank you.
In the US, there's an assumption that the secretary of a department (basically the same as a minister of a ministry) is some sort of expert in that field. It was mildly scandalous that Trump appointed a non-scientist as administrator of NASA even though he had been on the space committee in congress, was executive director of a space museum, and is a former naval pilot.
Brayden Davis
>She was unmoved by hunger-strikes
Andrew Rivera
as long as she keeps other people healthy then I guess it's all good
Oliver Lee
>>She was unmoved by hunger-strikes
Brandon Wilson
Yes, that's a lot easier when there's just one person appointing every position.
In practice it becomes of a sort of sub-presidential system: The minister will act as a 'head' (doing most of the social/ceremonial/media functions, attend openings, give speeches, interviews, etc.) as their main function is, essentially, to draw eyeballs (and voters). It's the party (and government coalition) which determines most of the actual policy, and it's the minister's personal cabinet (as well as the ministry's civil service) doing all the actual work.
Usually you can count on the chief of staff to be the one who actually runs things and knows every important topic inside-out, while the minister's out doing PR stuff.