Folketing
- V 47
- A 47
- O 22
- B 17
- F 12
- Ø 12
- I 9
- C 8
- GL and FO 4, 1 -attached
The Folketing [ fɔlkə.tɪŋ ] ( German as " people's assembly " ) is the Danish Parliament. Since 1953, it consists of a chamber with 179 deputies. Of these, two are elected in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The distribution of 175 Danish mandates a two - percent threshold, but this can be circumvented by a circle -won mandate applies.
Parliamentary seat is Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen.
By 1953, the Folketing made only one of two chambers of the Danish Reichstag, while the county council was the first chamber.
The Folketing is elected for four years. The Prime Minister or the Prime Minister may at any time call an election. If the government will not have a majority in the Folketing in a manner deemed to be significant issue, the Prime Minister or the Prime Minister must either resign his government or call for new elections.
Parties in the Folketing
The most recent election result
After the election of 15 September 2011, the Folketing was composed as follows:
MPs from the Faroe Islands
- Sambandsflokkurin ( conservative) 1
- Javnaðarflokkurin ( social democratic ) 1
MPs from Greenland
- Inuit Ataqatigiit (socialist ) 1
- Siumut ( social democratic ) 1
Government formation
The Danish Prime Minister, or the Danish Prime Minister is appointed by the Queen. A majority vote in Parliament according to the Chancellor's majority in the German Parliament, the Constitution not before. However, the Head of State may appoint any prime minister against the informal will of Parliament. This parliamentary principle was established in 1901 and finally implemented in the course of a serious constitutional crisis in 1920.
The Prime Minister or the Prime Minister needs no formal documented majority in Parliament, he or she may only have no obvious majority against him. This fact favors the formation of minority governments. You either have to look at changing partners by majorities or can set to solid cooperation partners. Since the dissolution of the national collection of government in late 1945 coalitions have a total of only seven years has its own majority (see List of Danish governments ). Absolute majority of a single party in the Folketing, there has been since the introduction of parliamentarism only 1901-1906.
Calculated majorities since the constitutional reform in 1953 also made more difficult because the four North Atlantic MPs not to join the government in most cases. Although they are full-fledged members of parliament, however, are mostly limited to participating only in votes concerning the affairs of their countries of origin. A first exception was the appointment of Greenland's deputies Mikael Gam Minister for Greenland (1960-1964), the SR governments Viggo Kampmann II and Jens Otto Krag I. Gam secured them so that a one- vote majority in the parliament. He took part against the unwritten rules of procedure on important votes and so sparked violent protests every time the opposition Conservatives. Since then, it was at least five times to form a government under inclusion of the North Atlantic mandates: 1971 assisted Moses Olsen and Knud Hertling the Socialists Krag; Óli Breckmann based in the 1980s Poul Schlüter (K); Jóannes Eidesgaard secured Poul Nyrup Rasmussen ( S) 1998 Another government years and Edmund Joensen 2007 declared its support for Anders Fogh Rasmussen ( V). The basis of the parliamentary governments Thorning -Schmidt I and II refers MPs from the North Atlantic with a.
Distribution of seats since 1918
Until 1918, women's suffrage and approximately proportional representation were introduced. The parties are in chronological order of their first entry into the Folketing. The party of the Prime Minister immediately after the election is marked in bold.
Speaker of Parliament
The Presidium of the Folketing consists of the President of Parliament and four deputies. It is responsible for session management and the daily operations of the Folketing. His election takes place each fall at the beginning of a session year. Since 2011, Mogens Lykketoft ( Socialdemokraterne ) Parliament President. His four alternates are (as of December 2012) Haarder ( Venstre ), Pia Kjærsgaard (DF ), Camilla Hersom (RV ) and Anne Baastrup ( SF). While in many parliaments always the largest group is the President, the Folketing has repeatedly decided on a candidate to a smaller group. The four representative items are always distributed among the four largest groups that do not provide the President of Parliament.