Shadow cabinet

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In politics, a shadow cabinet is a government team composed of candidate parties , which also includes the so-called shadow ministers . In the event of a successful election, they should form the government cabinet .

The establishment of a shadow cabinet is a frequently practiced campaign tool . This is intended to convey the planned accents of future politics to the public and to add personnel elements to the election campaign.

term

In Great Britain , where the concept of the shadow cabinet originated, the shadow cabinet has been a fixture since the late 19th century. There, after each general election , the opposition forms a team of shadow ministers mirroring the British government , who comment on the respective plans and decisions of the incumbent ministers and at the same time prepare to take over the office after a change of government. The respective party chairman is the “shadow prime minister ”.

Since the period from the announcement to the parliamentary elections is traditionally only one month there, the opposition would otherwise have too little time to put together a credible government team.

Shadow cabinets have been formed in Germany since the 1960s. In German political science , the term “government team” was used more frequently, while the graphic term “shadow cabinet” is not infrequently used in the press.

composition

When forming a shadow cabinet or competence team, value is usually attached to the fact that important topics are covered, large socially relevant groups are included, women are adequately represented and people from different regions or federal states are taken into account.

Competence team

In recent years, various top German politicians have presented a smaller so-called competence team ( Union parties and SPD ) or top team ( The Greens ) several times before elections instead of a complete government team, according to Edmund Stoiber before the federal elections in 2002 , Jürgen Rüttgers before the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005 , the top candidates from the Greens and the Union for the 2005 Bundestag election, Joschka Fischer and Angela Merkel , and the SPD's top candidates Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Peer Steinbrück in the 2009 and 2013 Bundestag election campaigns . The members of these competence teams should not actually become ministers in every case, but supplement the top candidates with additional expertise. In the 2017 federal election , the SPD candidate Martin Schulz , who had previously switched from European to federal politics and thus initially triggered a wave of enthusiasm, demonstratively refrained from naming a competence team.

Others

Beyond politics, the term has become commonplace for groups that want to take on certain leadership functions together, e.g. E.g. when Stefan Effenberg tried to take over the leadership at Borussia Mönchengladbach or with regard to TV presenters who are under discussion for larger tasks.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Shadow Cabinet  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Marco Seng: Greens oust the SPD shadow ministers. At least three candidates do not move into the cabinet - Wenzel Vice-Prime Minister? Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , January 23, 2013, accessed on November 17, 2016 .
  2. https://www.polyas.de/wahllexikon/schattenkabinett
  3. Explanation of terms on the website of the Society for German Language, accessed on June 26, 2016
  4. Thomas Krumm, Thomas Noetzel : The British Government System - An Introduction , Oldenbourg Verlag , 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58062-4 , p. 194 online
  5. Spiegel 32/1964, accessed on February 15, 2013
  6. Explanation of terms on the website of the Society for German Language, accessed on June 27, 2016
  7. ^ Die Welt from November 3, 2012: Women's quota for Steinbrück's shadow cabinet called for
  8. ^ Thuringian General: Thuringian Minister is in the shadow cabinet of the SPD chief, accessed on February 15, 2013
  9. Competence Team 2002 - A short portrait of Stoiber's shadow cabinet ( memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on sisol.de
  10. Good things from yesterday: Helmut Linssen is back
  11. Fischer becomes part of a top team from the Greens
  12. Angela Merkel introduces her competence team and finally everyone is playing the role she has assigned them - including Edmund Stoiber
  13. SPD competence team: Steinmeier goes into the election campaign without stars
  14. - ( Memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  15. Who is sitting in a shadow cabinet? ( Memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  16. Election campaign without portrait photos - SPD dispenses with shadow cabinet on n-tv.de, June 2, 2017, accessed April 22, 2019
  17. Focus from May 3, 2011: Effenberg's shadow cabinet is taking shape
  18. Tagesspiegel from January 26, 2013: Shadow cabinet of German television: The world as a pose