Federal Government Brief II

Federal Government Brief II
33. Federal Government of the Second Republic of Austria
Chancellor	Sebastian Kurz
choice	2019
Appointed by	Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen
education	January 7, 2020
Duration	0 years and 238 days
predecessor	Federal Government Bierlein
composition
Party (s)	ÖVP and Greens
representation
National Council	97/183

The Federal Government Kurz II has been the incumbent Federal Government of the Second Republic of Austria since January 7, 2020 . After the ÖVP and the Greens had agreed on a joint government program on January 1, 2020 when the government was formed in Austria in 2019 , the ÖVP federal executive board approved the program and the government team on January 3. On January 4, 2020, the Federal Congress of the Greens also approved the new government with 93.18 percent of the votes.

Federal Ministries and Government Members

Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) have been named government coordinators.

On January 29, 2020, the amendment to the Federal Ministries Act and thus the new division of responsibilities came into force.

List of government members

Federal Government Brief II - since January 7, 2020

Office	photo	Surname	Political party		State Secretary , added in support of	photo	Political party
Chancellor		Sebastian Kurz		ÖVP
Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport		Werner Kogler		Green	Ulrike Lunacek , Art and Culture (until May 15, 2020)			Green
					Andrea Mayer , Art and Culture (since May 20, 2020)			non-party (nominated by the Greens)
Federal Minister for European and International Affairs		Alexander Schallenberg		non-party (for ÖVP)
Federal Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection		Rudolf Anschober		Green
Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research		Heinz Fassmann		non-party (for ÖVP)
Federal Minister for Digitization and Business Location		Margarete Schramböck		ÖVP
Federal Minister of Finance		Gernot Blümel		ÖVP
Federal Minister of the Interior		Karl Nehammer		ÖVP
Federal Minister for National Defense		Klaudia Tanner		ÖVP
Federal Minister for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism		Elisabeth Köstinger		ÖVP
Federal Minister for Justice		Alma Zadić		Green
Federal Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology		Leonore Gewessler		Green	Magnus Brunner , Environment Department			ÖVP
Federal Minister for Labor, Family and Youth (until 8 January 2020 as Federal Minister without portfolio ; until 29 January 2020 as Chancellery Minister (families and youth))		Christine Aschbacher		ÖVP
Chancellery Minister (Integration and Women) (until 8 January 2020 as Federal Minister without portfolio)		Susanne Raab		ÖVP
Chancellery Minister (EU and Constitution) (until 8 January 2020 as Federal Minister without portfolio)		Karoline Edtstadler		ÖVP

Web links

Commons : Bundesregierung Kurz II  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• "I want a red-white-red government." Speech by the Federal President on the occasion of the appointment and inauguration of the new Federal Government. In: bundespraesident.at. Austrian Presidential Chancellery (publisher), 7 January 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The government program in detail and as a download. In: Nachrichten.at. January 3, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ÖVP board unanimously accepts the turquoise-green pact. January 3, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Conservatives and Greens present government program for Austria. Retrieved January 3, 2020 . 
4. ^ First Council of Ministers: Reference to "excellent atmosphere". In: ORF.at . January 8, 2020, accessed January 10, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Formal act: It was sworn again. In: derstandard.at. January 29, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020 . 
6. ↑ How Ulrike Lunacek ultimately became State Secretary. Green self-restraint, turquoise dominance: the filling of the last vacant post in the government became an extremely complicated matter. In: Die Presse , January 2, 2020, accessed on January 6, 2020.
7. ↑ In accordance with the resolution of the Federal President, with which the functional management of the following matters belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery is transferred to a separate Federal Minister, Federal Law Gazette II No. 9/2020 of January 8, 2020: Transfer of the functional management of matters belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery to the Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery, u. a .: families, youth and volunteering. See also Christine Aschbacher on the website of the Austrian Parliament .
8. ↑ In accordance with the resolution of the Federal President, with which the technical management of the following matters belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery is delegated to a separate Federal Minister, Federal Law Gazette II No. 10/2020 of 8 January 2020: Transfer of the objective management of matters belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery to the Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery, u. a .: Women’s and gender equality policy, ethnic group and cultural affairs. See also Susanne Raab on the website of the Austrian Parliament .
9. ↑ In accordance with the resolution of the Federal President, with which the technical management of the following matters belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery is transferred to a separate Federal Minister, Federal Law Gazette II No. 8/2020 of January 8, 2020: Transfer of the objective management of matters belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery to the Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery, u. a .: European Union, documentation and data protection, archives (especially the state archive), art and federal theaters, museums and film funding. See also Karoline Edtstadler on the website of the Austrian Parliament .