Cabinet Deputy Elections Amendment

[New Rogernomics]

Not in favour. The key to activity is good governance, not more elections. Cabinet deputies should be selected by the cabinet so that they can work together as well as possible.

Electing all cabinet ministers is also a bad idea-it robs the Prime Minister of authority, rendering the position redundant and depriving the region of an effective head of government and the leadership that provides.

To quote Yes Minister, yes, and no. The Delegate in numerous Lazarene govements effectively held the powers of the PM, and electing Ministers never left them powerless. Both the HRL and CU didn't lose activity electing Ministers, and really not electing Ministers is more of a recent development. Can go back to when I joined Lazarus, and even then Ministers were elected - and with an even less active region. 

You can have un-elected Ministers and still make it work, which is where the 'yes' part comes in. Ultimately, electing Ministers, or not, is a neutral policy, as both rely on effective Ministers in existence and the political will to make either means of appointing ministers work. If you have lousy appointments by PMs, or lousy candidates in elections, the result is essentially the same i.e. a useless and ineffective cabinet. Only difference is if Ministers are elected, citizens take a greater share of the blame if they choose poorly - and more than one person is deciding who makes up the cabinet.