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The Prime Minister of the UK is crucial to this article because it is the first of office of the head of government. Due to the presence of this role, the head of government was created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nurusa101 (talk • contribs) 02:45, 16 December 2023 (UTC) This really ought to gonto an article on parliamentary systems of government
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I agree it should be in such an article, but because we are talking about a separate head of government, that requires clarifying how such a system within which a separate head of government operates, actually works. So I think this is one of the instances were duplication is necessary.
I'm going to put the bit back for that reason. I will be revisiting the article later and I may rephrase or re-contextualise the above. I certainly take your point seriously. JTD 22:35 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
I've rewritten bits to stress where I am talking about a parliamentary system-prime minister. I think there may be more clarity. I've bullet-pointed your opening paragraph to highlight the three distinctions; presidential, semi-presidential and parliamentary. When I get the chance I'll add in more info. Are you happy with the reshaping? JTD 23:14 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
I cleaned up the spelling and punctuation of this article, and took out the misunderstanding about 10 Downing St.
I found the following sub-literate drivel at the end of the second paragraph but it doesn't show up on the edit page so I don't know how to fix it.
Terminology is tough, I know, but is the Head of Government really necessarily the chief officer of the executive branch, as it says in the first sentence? In semi-presidential systems and many parliamentary systems, the chief executive office sits above the Government (or "Administration", in American terms). The person who heads the Government is not necessarily the head of the entire executive branch of government. SteveMcQwark (talk) 05:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Should British monarch be counted as head of government alongside Prime Minister as well ? By constitutional convention, monarch is head of Parliament
Also for King of Netherlands is similar, since Dutch constitution specifies that government is consisted of Crown(king) and his ministers
Siyac —Preceding undated comment added 14:40, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
President of France is also head of government, since he chairs cabinet meeting, is this correct ? our prime minister is our head of government. jeffy is funny
Mrodowicz (talk) 07:19, 12 December 2012 (UTC)Having two separate articles for this position, is duplication. The discussion of prime minister, is essentially about the role of the head of government, and the two are pretty much interchangable. Of course there are some countries whose head of government is not titled 'Prime minister' in their native language (eg. Germany, Austria, Monaco, Italy, Israel, Russia, Spain, Scandinavian countries, Pakistan, Vatican City etc). Furthermore, English language convention in general is to refer to nearly all heads of govt as PM, regardless of the actual title in the native language, with a small number of exceptions (Germany & Austria - Chancellor, Monaco - Minister of State, Vatican City - Secretary of State). However, having two separate articles has shown itself to be problematic. For example, German chancellor - Angela Merkel is discussed and included in the 'Prime minister' article as a 'prime minister of Germany' as opposed to Germany having no prime minister. Is she then a 'prime minister' or not? A further problem is which countries heads of government should be included as prime ministers in the 'Prime minister' article? The head of government of Pakistan has the official title of 'Grand Vizier', and is referred to as such in the Urdu language. However, in the English language his title is translated as the 'Prime Minister of Pakistan'. If we were to conclude that Merkel is chancellor and not prime minister of Germany, (as both the German and English languages would indicate) then what about the "Grand Vizier of Pakistan'? - according to his official title he is not the prime minister of Pakistan, but according to the English translation of his role, he is the prime minister of Pakistan.
I therefore suggest one article on Heads of government, in which the position is defind. It will be mentioned within the article that the most common title for head of government is 'prime minister' as well as which other titles are used to describe this role.Mrodowicz (talk) 07:19, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
In more than six months there has been very little discussion of this merger proposal, and there is clearly no consensus for the merge, so I am removing the tag. Neutron (talk) 22:18, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Head of Government or Prime Minister may be 3rd, 4th or even more on a country's precedence table. A Head of Government is the highest political official, who leads a country regarding its national policies. Travelmite (talk) 16:18, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
The following, found in the lead, apparently not a summary of anything in the body, and unsourced, is partly wrong and partly misleading: "For example, in the United Kingdom, the prime minister 'advises' the Queen on the appointment of the cabinet, advice she is required to accept. On the other hand, the Queen's long service as the head of state enables her to provide the prime minister with information and insight into many matters to better run the government. However, because the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, the Prime Minister uses his or her own discretion regarding whether or not to follow the Queen's advice. The Queen also is entitled to appoint a new Prime Minister."
An English law textbook written for undergraduates and published by Oxford University Press (I cited it for another article some years ago), said that the government has two branches, Crown and Parliament, that the Queen is the head of state, that she can appoint anyone or no one as Prime Minister regardless of which party won the election, that she can appoint 120 ministers who normally serve Parliament and answer when necessary to courts but when serving the Crown need not answer to the Parliament, which means, since courts are inferior to the Parliament, need not obey court orders (a real case to that effect arose not many years ago involving a refused asylum application), that she and not the Prime Minister is the commander-in-chief, that she determines who can receive a passport (presumably meaning she can set immigration and citizenship policies), that her legislative veto is final (making a Prime Minister's rejection of her advice potentially career-ending), and that she may have been within her rights when she responded to a disinclination by the appointive House of Lords to enact legislation she desired by suggesting that she could appoint many more members to that House unless the House passed the bill. Any requirement that the Queen accept the PM's advice on cabinet composition is political, not legal. While it is widely believed that the Queen is not supposed to have political opinions, or at least that they must be private or secret, neither is the law.
Nick Levinson (talk) 00:20, 7 January 2018 (UTC) (Correction: 00:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC))
--Lubiesque (talk) 02:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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In a presidential system of government, both the head of state and the head of government is the President. So, the President's role as head of state is more important than that as head of government. But in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems, the head of state and the head of government is separated. So, a President is not specifically introduced as a head of government.112.134.220.202 (talk) 07:35, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
"State President" was the title of the head of state of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1994 (Apartheid rule). From 1961 to 1984 the State President was the head of state with limited ceremonial powers, while the Prime Minister was the head of government. In 1984 the office of Prime Minister was merged with the office of State President, thus transferring the executive powers of the Prime Minister to the State President. So, State President was not the title of the head of government of South Africa. 112.134.220.222 (talk) 13:48, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hey, can someone add Joe Biden, the President of the United States of America and Chris Hipkins, the Prime Minister of New Zealand (my country) to the list of heads of government at the top of the page, or are the 9 already there enough? thx. Sup3rG33k08 (talk) 08:11, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
Photomontage should be removed as per MOS:PEOPLEGALLERY for the same reasons outlined here. Will lead to endless edits and talks over who, what race, gender etc...to represent....simply for visuals appeal as links to bios dont help in understanding the topics at hand Moxy🍁 07:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
This was expanded into a second RfC concerning galleries of images of living people in general. But the second RfC doesn't talk about living people in general, just expanding the first RFCs consensus from "ethnic/"race" to also include "similarly large human populations". (I haven't read the Second RfC completely so it's possible I missed something.) And Head of government is clearly not in the same category as ethnic groups or similarly large human populations. Nobody (talk) 17:53, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
I've no problems with including or excluding, as long as we're consistent here & at the Head of state page. GoodDay (talk) 21:26, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
'However, just because the head of state is the de jure dominant position does not mean that he/she will not always be the de facto political leader.' at Under a dominant head of state. Should there only be one not here? Wikifan153 (talk) 18:20, 15 May 2024 (UTC)