The Austrian Federal Government

The Cabinet is entrusted with the highest administrative duties of the Republic of Austria. The Cabinet is composed of the Federal Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, and the other Federal Ministers. As a collegiate branch of government it executes only those duties which have been expressly entrusted to it by law (or upon decree by the Federal President). All other governmental duties reside with the ministers of the responsible ministry. The Cabinet’s most important constitutional responsibility is its function to pass bills. The Cabinet passes resolutions unanimously. There is no majority decision making.

Faymann I:
first row: Norbert Darabos, Christine Marek, Doris Bures, Claudia Schmied, Werner Faymann, Josef Pröll, Maria Fekter, Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek, Johannes Hahn
second row: Andreas Schieder, Alois Stöger, Rudolf Hundstorfer, Michael Spindelegger, Nikolaus Berlakovich, Reinhold Mitterlehner, Reinhold Lopatka, Josef Ostermayer
(© BKA/HBF)

On 2nd December 2008, the new Austrian Federal Government Faymann was sworn in by Federal President Heinz Fischer.

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Anmerkung:
On 21th April 2011 were sworn in:
Beatrix Karl as Federal Minister of Justice,
Karlheinz Töchterle as Federal Minister of Science and Research,
Maria Fekter as Federal Minister of Finance,
Johanna Mikl-Leitner as Federal Minister of the Interior,
Wolfgang Waldner as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for European and International Affair and
Sebastian Kurz as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior.